I just downloaded Kafka 2.8.0 from Apache website, and I am trying to setup using the instructions given on the website. But when I try to start zookeper server, I am getting below error:
Error: Could not find or load main class org.apache.zookeeper.server.quorum.QuorumPeerMain
My environment is Windows 7 64 bit. I tried to follow below e-mail chain: Apache Email Chain . But still it's having same issue.
Run these commands from your Kafka root folder:
cd bin\windows
Then run Zookeper server:
zookeeper-server-start.bat ..\..\config\zookeeper.properties
Then run Kafka server:
kafka-server-start.bat ..\..\config\server.properties
The gotcha here is to run the .bat files from the /bin/windows folder, so after you run your servers with the steps above and want to follow up with the tutorial, make sure you are running the correct batch files to create topics and whatnot, e.g.:
Create a topic:
kafka-topics.bat --create --zookeeper localhost:2181 --replication-factor 1 --partitions 1 --topic test
List topics:
kafka-topics.bat --list --zookeeper localhost:2181