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I'm trying to run Kafka locally. I've got Zookeeper installed and running. I've downloaded the binaries for Kafka 2.11-1.1.0. I've adjusted the location of the logs in server.config, to a valid path. When I run .\bin\windows\kafka-server-start.bat .\config\server.properties, I get an error that says

The system cannot find the path specified.

I can see that both those files exist on my computer in the proper locations-what should I be troubleshooting?

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I faced this issue while running the kafka-server-start.bat command. I double checked to ensure that there was no spaces in the kafka binaries path as well as correct syntax in JAVA_HOME.

Finally realized that the issue was due to a space in the JAVA_HOME path.

C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_144

There is a space between Program and Files. I changed the directory of Java and updated the JAVA_HOME variable to

C:\Java\jdk1.7.0_51

This change solved my issue. I used the setx command to change the value in JAVA_HOME.

setx -m JAVA_HOME "C:\Java\jdk1.7.0_51"