Zookeeper issue in setting kafka

Question

To install kafka , I downloaded the kafka tar folder. To start the server I tried this command :

bin/zookeeper-server-start.sh config/zookeeper.properties
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Answer 1

You can use Powershell as an alternative to CMD.

Consider myKafka is your kafka home directory, Extract your kafka tar file here. Extracted folder(KafkaDir) will be having ./bin,/config, etc. internal folders.

1. Now, open Powershell prompt, go to myKafka folder.
2. Run below command:

.\kafkaDir\bin\windows\zookeeper-server-start.bat
.\kafkaDir\config\zookeeper.properties

Zookeeper will get start.

Answer 2

I too faced the same issue when I installed kafka from Brew on Macbook

This is happening because the zookeeper.properties file is not in config of bin.

Follow these step.

1. Enter the command---> cd /usr/local/Cellar/kafka/2.3.0

2. Enter the command ---->cd libex

3. Now enter the command--->zookeeper-server-start config/zookeeper.properties

You will get the INFO binding to port 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0:2181 (org.apache.zookeeper.server.NIOServerCnxnFactory) Message.

Earlier I was getting this error:

$ zookeeper-server-start config/zookeeper.properties [2019-10-02 14:35:20,159] INFO Reading configuration from: config/zookeeper.properties (org.apache.zookeeper.server.quorum.QuorumPeerConfig) [2019-10-02 14:35:20,160] ERROR Invalid config, exiting abnormally (org.apache.zookeeper.server.quorum.QuorumPeerMain) org.apache.zookeeper.server.quorum.QuorumPeerConfig$ConfigException: Error processing config/zookeeper.properties at org.apache.zookeeper.server.quorum.QuorumPeerConfig.parse(QuorumPeerConfig.java:156) at org.apache.zookeeper.server.quorum.QuorumPeerMain.initializeAndRun(QuorumPeerMain.java:104) at org.apache.zookeeper.server.quorum.QuorumPeerMain.main(QuorumPeerMain.java:81) Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: config/zookeeper.properties file is missing at org.apache.zookeeper.server.quorum.QuorumPeerConfig.parse(QuorumPeerConfig.java:140) ... 2 more Invalid config, exiting abnormally

Answer 3

For Windows:

1. Go to kafka_2.11-2.0.0\bin\windows folder
2. Then run zookeeper-server-start.bat ../../config/zookeeper.properties

Answer 4

I faced the exact same error, and after a while I realized that the reason for the error was, I wasn't able to find the zookeeper.properties file, and that was because the path wasn't correct, I installed kafka through brew so the config folder was created inside libexec, so find where the config directory is and check for zookeeper.properties inside it and give that path.