I found a solution. If another service is blocking port 8000, splunk uses the next free port 8001 You can find the right port by starting splunk at the commandline: C:\Program Files\Splunk\bin>splunk.exe start Splunk> Be an IT superhero. Go home early. Checking prerequisites... Checking http port [8001]: open Checking mgmt port [8089]: open Checking appserver port [127.0.0.1:8065]: open Checking kvstore port [8191]: open Checking configuration... Done. Checking critical directories... Done Checking indexes... Validated: _audit _blocksignature _internal _introspection _thefishbucket history logfiles_stratoserver main summary Done Checking filesystem compatibility... Done Checking conf files for problems... Done All preliminary checks passed. Starting splunk server daemon (splunkd)... Splunkd: Starting (pid 4208) Done ,I found a solution for me: a different service is blocking port 8000 and splunk uses the next free port 8001 You can find the right port by starting splunk at the commandline: C:\Program Files\Splunk\bin>splunk.exe start Splunk> Be an IT superhero. Go home early. Checking prerequisites... Checking http port [8001]: open Checking mgmt port [8089]: open Checking appserver port [127.0.0.1:8065]: open Checking kvstore port [8191]: open Checking configuration... Done. Checking critical directories... Done Checking indexes... Validated: _audit _blocksignature _internal _introspection _thefishbucket history logfiles_stratoserver main summary Done Checking filesystem compatibility... Done Checking conf files for problems... Done All preliminary checks passed. Starting splunk server daemon (splunkd)... Splunkd: Starting (pid 4208) Done ... View more

I found no errors in the mentioned logfiles. The 404 Error does not appear in the logfiles. ... View more

Disabling the firewall doesn't help. I still get the 404 Error. ... View more

I have got the same Problem with 6.2.1 & 6.2.2 on two different PCs with Windows 7 German 64 Bit The 6.1.6 Version works. Any Idea? Has Splunk any Logfiles to search for the problem? ... View more