First of all, don't forget that you're in a windows operating system so don't forget the dot . before the path .\bin\...
Zookeeper Installation
Locate your Zookeeper config directory. For example C:\zookeeper-3.4.7\conf.
Locate .cfg file and Copy and Rename zoo_sample.cfg to zoo.cfg in C:\Tools\zookeeper-3.4.9\conf
Open it with any text editor like Notepad++
Find and edit dataDir=/tmp/zookeeper to :\zookeeper-3.4.7\data
In addition, add an entry in the System Environment Variables as you did for Java.
this means something like this
Add ZOOKEEPER_HOME = C:\zookeeper-3.4.7 to the System Variables.
add ;%ZOOKEEPER_HOME%\bin;
Run Zookeeper by opening a new cmd and type : zkserver.
KafkaServer
Running a Kafka Server type
.\bin\windows\kafka-server-start.bat .\config\server.properties
Create Topic
in order to create topics now you should do this:
Now create a topic with the name “test” and a replication factor of
1, as we have only one Kafka server running. If you have a cluster
with more than one Kafka server running, you can increase the
replication-factor accordingly, which will increase the data
availability and act like a fault-tolerant system.
Open a new command prompt in the location C:\kafka_2.12-2.1.0\bin\windows.
Type the following command and hit Enter:
kafka-topics.bat --create --zookeeper localhost:2181 --replication-factor 1 --partitions 1 --topic test
Creating a simple Producer and Consumer to Test
Open a new command prompt in the location C:\kafka_2.12-2.1.0\bin\windows and type this for the producer:
kafka-console-producer.bat --broker-list localhost:9092 --topic test
Again open a new command prompt in the same location and type:
kafka-console-consumer.bat --zookeeper localhost:2181 --topic test
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Best Answer
You've downloaded the source package. Download the binary package of Kafka and do testing.