title: How to setup kafka and zookeeper on your local machine?
body: <p>I have installed kafka and zookeeper on my local C:\ drive folder now i am trying to run the zookeeper and kafka server so i can create topics but its throwing below error, any idea what is going wrong here ?</p>
  
  <p>kafka comand Line:</p>
  
  <pre><code>C:\kafka_2.11-0.10.0.0&gt;.\bin\windows\kafka-server-start.bat .\config\server.pro
  erties
  '#' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
  operable program or batch file.
  The syntax of the command is incorrect.
  Error: missing `server' JVM at `C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre8\bin\server\jvm
  dll'.
  Please install or use the JRE or JDK that contains these missing components.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>zookeeper.config</p>
  
  <pre><code>tickTime=2000
  initLimit=10
  syncLimit=5
  dataDir=\zookeeper-3.4.8
  clientPort=2181
  </code></pre>