It works now thanks. On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 11:12 PM, Jun Rao <jun...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Not sure about this exception. Seems not directly related to Kafka. Did a > google search and found the following. Does that help? > http://www.wowza.com/forums/showthread.php?337-Malformed-URL-exception > > Thanls, > > Jun > > On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 7:42 PM, S Ahmed <sahmed1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi Jun, > > > > I'm on a dedicated box, not ec2. > > BTW, I am running everything (zookeeper and kafka) on the same server. > > Just to recap, I'm doing everthing default as per the quickstart. > > Zookeeper started just fine. > > When trying to run kafka server with config/server.properties I got: > > > > Error: Exception thrown by the agent : java.net.MalformedURLException: > > Local host name unknown: java.net.UnknownHostException: myhostname: > > myhostname > > > > Why does it repeat the hostname in the exception? > > > > That's all the exception I got, is there a way to get a more detailed > > exception, is that what you are referring to? > > > > On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Jun Rao <jun...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Could you put the stack trace of the exception? Normally, you don't > need > > to > > > define hostname in broker. You only need to do that if somehow the > local > > ip > > > is not accessible to the clients (e.g., EC2) > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Jun > > > > > > On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 6:06 PM, S Ahmed <sahmed1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > I downloaded 0.7, updated and packaged using sbt. > > > > > > > > I was able to run zooker, but when I tried running the kafka server I > > > got: > > > > > > > > Error: Exception thrown by the agent : > java.net.MalformedURLException: > > > > Local host name unknown: java.net.UnknownHostException: myhostname: > > > > myhostname > > > > > > > > (where myhostname was my host name :) ) > > > > > > > > Do I need to tweak the config property files or something? I didn't > > > touch > > > > anything, just wanted to get it going. > > > > > > > > > >
