title: Can't run logstash on windows
body: <p>I'm currently trying to install and run Logstash on Windows 7 using the guidelines of the <a href="http://logstash.net/docs/1.4.0/tutorials/getting-started-with-logstash" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Logstash website</a>.</p>
  
  <p>My first try was with the version 1.4.2, but I got the error:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Error: Unable to access jarfile /cygdrive/c/Users/hschoonjans/My Documents/logstash-1.4.2/vendor/jar/jruby-complete-1.7.11.jar</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>Then I tried with a more recent version (1.5.0.rc2), but had a different error message:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>LoadError: no such file to load -- logstash/environment
      require at org/jruby/RubyKernel.java:1071
      require at C:/Users/hschoonjans/My Documents/Elasticsearch cluster/logstash-1.5.0.rc2/vendor/jruby/lib/ruby/shared/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:135
       (root) at C:\Users\hschoonjans\My Documents\Elasticsearch cluster\logstash-1.5.0.rc2\lib\logstash\runner.rb:7</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>For both versions, I only tried the same command in my Cygwin in the logstash directory:</p>
  
  <pre><code>bin/logstash -e 'input { stdin { } } output { stdout {} }'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This is confusing, in the tutorials there is no allusion to the need of making more configuration.</p>
  
  <p>EDIT: it seems that the problem may occur mainly when using Cygwin. It may be <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16634211/unable-to-access-jarfile-under-cygwin">related</a> with this issue.</p>