# Failure in source install kong 0.14.1

**URL:** <https://discuss.konghq.com/t/failure-in-source-install-kong-0-14-1/1853>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Created:** [September 11, 2018, 2:10pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/failure-in-source-install-kong-0-14-1/1853 "2018-09-11T14:10:16Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 11, 2018, 2:10pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/failure-in-source-install-kong-0-14-1/1853/1 "2018-09-11T14:10:16Z")

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Hi ,

Facing an issue while starting kong.

```auto
$- kong start
root@ip-172-31-15-170:/usr/local/lib/luarocks/rocks-5.1# kong start 
2018/09/11 19:47:29 [warn] ulimit is currently set to "1024". For better performance set it to at least "4096" using "ulimit -n"
Error: /usr/local/share/lua/5.1/kong/cmd/start.lua:28: nginx configuration is invalid (exit code 1):
nginx: the configuration file /usr/local/kong/nginx.conf syntax is ok
nginx: [error] init_by_lua error: /usr/local/share/lua/5.1/luarocks/core/cfg.lua:729: attempt to index a nil value
stack traceback:
        /usr/local/share/lua/5.1/luarocks/core/cfg.lua:729: in function 'init'
        /usr/local/share/lua/5.1/luarocks/loader.lua:19: in main chunk
        [C]: in function 'require'
        /usr/local/share/lua/5.1/kong/init.lua:27: in main chunk
        [C]: in function 'require'
        init_by_lua:2: in main chunk
nginx: configuration file /usr/local/kong/nginx.conf test failed

```

OS: ubuntu 14.04  
Kong version trying to install - 0.14.1  
Followed installation instructions from - [GitHub - Kong/kong: 🦍 The Cloud-Native API Gateway and AI Gateway.](https://docs.konghq.com/install/source/)

Few deviations I have done during the install -  
Instead of compiling openresty, I’ve used the pre-build package for [ubuntu](https://openresty.org/en/linux-packages.html)  
Instead of doing a git clone of the kong project, I’ve downloaded and extracted the [tar file](https://github.com/Kong/kong/releases) for 0.14.1 from github