config not found

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After replace the old *.exe with the version manticore-10.1.0-25060608-c63706038-x64-main.zip the config file was not found.

[Tue Sep 30 13:48:49.865 2025] [6748] FATAL: no readable config file (looked in c:/manticore/etc/manticoresearch/manticore.conf, ./manticore.conf).

Sure, the file is not on c:/manticore … and was never there.

The service starts with: “C:\Program Files\mySQL\bin\searchd.exe” --ntservice --servicename sphInserate -c “c:\Program Files\mySql\sphInserate.conf”

Windows Server 2016

regards Peter

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Hi Peter,

I’m not sure I understand the problem. If you’re using the custom config file “sphInserate.conf,” how would searchd.exe know about it?

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see “The service starts with …”

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the config file was not found

Can you please show the full output that appears when you run Manticore with
-c “c:\Program Files\mySql\sphInserate.conf” and the file exists, but it still returns an error saying the config is not found?

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Hello Sergey

the event log says:

[Tue Sep 30 13:48:49.865 2025] [6748] FATAL: no readable config file (looked in c:/manticore/etc/manticoresearch/manticore.conf, ./manticore.conf).

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Do I understand it right that you run:

searchd ... -c "c:\Program Files\mySql\sphInserate.conf"

and it fails to start with the fatal error:

FATAL: no readable config file (looked in c:/manticore/etc/manticoresearch/manticore.conf, ./manticore.conf).

?

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yes - this is the service start command.

With older version no problem …

regards Peter

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Thanks. We’ll try to reproduce it

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if you run daemon with --ntservice could you check the service startup cli?

You need to run services.msc then select searchd or sphInserate service and check its properties.