Kafka does not start blank output

Question

Im workign to install Kafa and Zookeeper.

I have already run the Zookeeper and it is currently running. I set up everything as in [https://dzone.com/articles/running-apache-kafka-on-windows-os]

when i finally run in my cmd,

.\bin\windows\kafka-server-start.bat .\config\server.properties

there is no output, it just moves shows the next command line started. Please help me out.

Answer 1

Finally I find someone with with the same issue I had! Zookeeper running, but kafka not doing anything at all except returning to the next line with no log, error, or anything. Dunno if the cause is the same, but the solution for me, oddly enough, was to download and open cygwin, and run the command exactly as you have it, except with flipping all the \s to /s and it worked.