Unable to access 'path.scripts'

[richisharma]

Hi, I am getting below error in administrative command prompt while running elastic search

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalStateException: Unable to access 'path.scripts' (C:\elasticsearch-2.3.1\config\scripts)
Likely root cause: java.nio.file.NotDirectoryException: C:\elasticsearch-2.3.1\config\scripts
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Security.ensureDirectoryExists(Security.java:340)
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Security.addPath(Security.java:314)
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Security.addFilePermissions(Security.java:248)
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Security.createPermissions(Security.java:212)
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Security.configure(Security.java:118)
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.setupSecurity(Bootstrap.java:196)
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.setup(Bootstrap.java:167)
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.init(Bootstrap.java:270)
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:35)
Refer to the log for complete error details.

Also C:\elasticsearch-2.3.1\config\scripts exist. but still I get the error

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Please help me resolve this issue

[tianon]

This looks like an issue with running Elasticsearch on your (Windows) host -- this is the GitHub repository for the https://hub.docker.com/_/elasticsearch/ Docker image, which does not even have a Windows variant. 😅