Apache2 module Filebeat

Ikbel
September 22, 2018
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1 vote
2 Answers

I’m following this documentation https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/filebeat-module-apache2.html in order to connect an apache web server access log file using file beat to elasticsearch, everything was ok until I changed the path of apache2.yml I got the following error :

2018-09-22T14:21:55.791+0100    ERROR   instance/beat.go:691    Exiting: 1 error: error
loading config file: invalid config: yaml: line 3: found unknown escape character
Exiting: 1 error: error loading config file: invalid config: yaml: line 3: found unknown escape character

this id apache2.yml configuration file :

    - module: apache2
  access:
    enabled: true
    var.paths: ["‪C:Program Filesfilebeat-6.3.2-windowslogsApacheAccess.log"]

Answers

- Chexpir
- April 20, 2020 at 9:47 am
- 0 votes
0
If you are using double quotes in
```
"‪C:Program Filesfilebeat-6.3.2-windowslogsApacheAccess.log"
```
you need to escape the backslash characters
```
"‪C:\Program Files\filebeat-6.3.2-windows\logs\Apache\Access.log"
```
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