# Gateway issue: Not a valid property name-value pair

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/gateway-issue-not-a-valid-property-name-value-pair/8175>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [March 19, 2014, 3:14pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/gateway-issue-not-a-valid-property-name-value-pair/8175 "2014-03-19T15:14:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![James.Lorenz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/james.lorenz/32/3290_2.png) [@James.Lorenz](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/James.Lorenz)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2014, 5:06pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/gateway-issue-not-a-valid-property-name-value-pair/8175/2 "2014-03-19T17:06:10Z")

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If you look at your Ignition Gateway service properties, what does the “path to executable” look like? There may be an issue there with the path to the conf file missing quotes.

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