title: Kong setup with Cassandra 2.2.7
body: <p>Just getting started with using <a href="https://getkong.org/" rel="nofollow">Kong</a> but I've been facing this issue. </p>
  
  <p>I'm trying to setup Kong on a Mac and following the instructions from here:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://getkong.org/install/osx/" rel="nofollow">Kong for Mac</a></p>
  
  <p>I already have Cassandra 2.2.7 installed and running locally. I can connect to it through 'cqlsh' and create a keyspace etc. </p>
  
  <p>But kong does not start when I run the following command:</p>
  
  <pre><code>kong start 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I've tried the --vv option and it gives me the following output:</p>
  
  <pre><code>2016/09/19 11:13:30 [verbose] no config file found at /etc/kong.conf
  2016/09/19 11:13:30 [verbose] no config file found at /etc/kong/kong.conf
  2016/09/19 11:13:30 [verbose] no config file, skipping loading
  2016/09/19 11:13:30 [debug] admin_listen = "0.0.0.0:8001"
  2016/09/19 11:13:30 [debug] anonymous_reports = true
  2016/09/19 11:13:30 [debug] cassandra_consistency = "ONE"
  2016/09/19 11:13:30 [debug] cassandra_contact_points = {"127.0.0.1"}
  2016/09/19 11:13:30 [debug] cassandra_data_centers = {"dc1:2","dc2:3"}
  2016/09/19 11:13:30 [debug] cassandra_keyspace = "kong"
  2016/09/19 11:13:30 [debug] cassandra_port = 9042
  2016/09/19 11:13:30 [debug] cassandra_repl_factor = 1
  2016/09/19 11:13:30 [debug] cassandra_repl_strategy = "SimpleStrategy"
  2016/09/19 11:13:30 [debug] cassandra_ssl = false
  2016/09/19 11:13:30 [debug] cassandra_ssl_verify = false
  2016/09/19 11:13:30 [debug] cassandra_timeout = 5000
  2016/09/19 11:13:30 [debug] cassandra_username = "kong"
  2016/09/19 11:13:30 [debug] cluster_listen = "0.0.0.0:7946"
  2016/09/19 11:13:30 [debug] cluster_listen_rpc = "127.0.0.1:7373"
  2016/09/19 11:13:30 [debug] cluster_profile = "wan"
  2016/09/19 11:13:30 [debug] cluster_ttl_on_failure = 3600
  2016/09/19 11:13:30 [debug] custom_plugins = {}
  2016/09/19 11:13:30 [debug] database = "postgres"
  2016/09/19 11:13:30 [debug] dnsmasq = true
  2016/09/19 11:13:30 [debug] dnsmasq_port = 8053
  2016/09/19 11:13:30 [debug] log_level = "notice"
  2016/09/19 11:13:30 [debug] lua_code_cache = "on"
  2016/09/19 11:13:30 [debug] lua_package_cpath = ""
  2016/09/19 11:13:30 [debug] lua_package_path = "?/init.lua;./kong/?.lua"
  2016/09/19 11:13:30 [debug] lua_ssl_verify_depth = 1
  2016/09/19 11:13:30 [debug] mem_cache_size = "128m"
  2016/09/19 11:13:30 [debug] nginx_daemon = "on"
  2016/09/19 11:13:30 [debug] nginx_optimizations = true
  2016/09/19 11:13:30 [debug] nginx_worker_processes = "auto"
  2016/09/19 11:13:30 [debug] pg_database = "kong"
  2016/09/19 11:13:30 [debug] pg_host = "127.0.0.1"
  2016/09/19 11:13:30 [debug] pg_port = 5432
  2016/09/19 11:13:30 [debug] pg_ssl = false
  2016/09/19 11:13:30 [debug] pg_ssl_verify = false
  2016/09/19 11:13:30 [debug] pg_user = "kong"
  2016/09/19 11:13:30 [debug] prefix = "/usr/local/kong/"
  2016/09/19 11:13:30 [debug] proxy_listen = "0.0.0.0:8000"
  2016/09/19 11:13:30 [debug] proxy_listen_ssl = "0.0.0.0:8443"
  2016/09/19 11:13:30 [debug] serf_path = "serf"
  2016/09/19 11:13:30 [debug] ssl = true
  2016/09/19 11:13:30 [verbose] prefix in use: /usr/local/kong
  2016/09/19 11:13:30 [verbose] running datastore migrations
  2016/09/19 11:13:30 [verbose] could not start Kong, stopping services
  2016/09/19 11:13:30 [verbose] leaving serf cluster
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I don't see any logs locally that tell me what exactly is the issue. I've looked on the web a fair bit but haven't found a solution. </p>
  
  <p>Any thoughts on what I am missing?</p>