Installing Influx DB on Windows server stucks

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Hello guys im totatly new to influxdb.

Im trying to install influx db 1.8.0 on windows server which has no internet connection.

when i run influxd.exe its stucks on “sending usage statics to usage.influxdata.com”

chaging reporting-disabled = true on config file didnt help :frowning: its still stucks at same step

any advice?

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Hello guys,

its seems like ifnluxd is not reading my config file, its generating data-meta-wal files under C:\user.influxdb… its strange because im changed directory folders to another path.

when i run influxd its always running with default config file, its not reading my edited file. Its seems thats why its still trying to send usage info to usage.dataflux.com

how can i make sure its installing with my edited config file?

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can you share your conf file?
What did you do to run influxd ? is it running as a service?

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Hello Giovanni

thanks for you reply, here is the configs. i just running influxd.exe from cmd (with admin privs)

### Welcome to the InfluxDB configuration file.

# The values in this file override the default values used by the system if
# a config option is not specified. The commented out lines are the configuration
# field and the default value used. Uncommenting a line and changing the value
# will change the value used at runtime when the process is restarted.

# Once every 24 hours InfluxDB will report usage data to usage.influxdata.com
# The data includes a random ID, os, arch, version, the number of series and other
# usage data. No data from user databases is ever transmitted.
# Change this option to true to disable reporting.
reporting-disabled = true

# Bind address to use for the RPC service for backup and restore.
# bind-address = "127.0.0.1:8088"

###
### [meta]
###
### Controls the parameters for the Raft consensus group that stores metadata
### about the InfluxDB cluster.
###

[meta]
  # Where the metadata/raft database is stored
  dir = "C:\Program Files\influxdb\meta"

  # Automatically create a default retention policy when creating a database.
  # retention-autocreate = true

  # If log messages are printed for the meta service
  # logging-enabled = true

###
### [data]
###
### Controls where the actual shard data for InfluxDB lives and how it is
### flushed from the WAL. "dir" may need to be changed to a suitable place
### for your system, but the WAL settings are an advanced configuration. The
### defaults should work for most systems.
###

[data]
  # The directory where the TSM storage engine stores TSM files.
  dir = "C:\Program Files\influxdb\data"

  # The directory where the TSM storage engine stores WAL files.
  wal-dir = "C:\Program Files\influxdb\wal"

rest is same as default conf.

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Sorry for the delay
I expect this config file to give you an error if used, in fact in toml some chars must be escaped (ie: “\”)

Wrong

[meta]
  # Where the metadata/raft database is stored
  dir = "C:\Program Files\influxdb\meta"

Correct (double quotes and escaped “\”)

[meta]
  # Where the metadata/raft database is stored
  dir = "C:\\Program Files\\influxdb\\meta"

Correct (single quotes, no escape needed)

[meta]
  # Where the metadata/raft database is stored
  dir = 'C:\Program Files\influxdb\meta'

About the configuration not being used, you have to specify it as a parameter of the executable

influxd.exe -config "__PathToConfig.conf__"

note that if you run influxdb as a service using nssm the path to the configuration file must be the absolute path

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