Installing Influx DB on Windows server stucks

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