Getting ECONNREFUSED for Kafka (127.0.0.1:9092) and Config URLs (localhost/config1.json) while running pdf-service locally

[rajayush97]

Hi Team,

I am trying to run the pdf-service locally and facing the following issues:

1. Config URLs not reachable
   I set the environment variable: export DATA_CONFIG_URLS=http://localhost/config1.json,http://localhost/config2.json
   But I’m getting connection errors

2. Kafka connection refused, The app is trying to connect to Kafka, but nothing is running on that port locally.
   connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:9092

Please advise on how to proceed with both these issues.

Thanks,

[Lokendra-egov]

@rajayush97 Download/extract Kafka if not downloaded already. refer this to download Kafka.
wget https://downloads.apache.org/kafka/3.2.0/kafka_2.13-3.2.0.tgz
tar -xzf kafka_2.13-3.2.0.tgz
mv kafka_2.13-3.2.0 ~/kafka_2.13-3.2.0

after download, start Zookeeper: sudo ~/kafka_2.13-3.2.0/bin/zookeeper-server-start.sh ~/kafka_2.13-3.2.0/config/zookeeper.properties

and then start Kafka: sudo ~/kafka_2.13-3.2.0/bin/kafka-server-start.sh ~/kafka_2.13-3.2.0/config/server.properties

This will start the Kafka server on: localhost:9092