# Julia language server in VS Code couldn´t start

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-language-server-in-vs-code-couldn-t-start/36449>\
**Category:** VS Code\
**Tags:** question\
**Created:** [March 24, 2020, 2:32pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-language-server-in-vs-code-couldn-t-start/36449 "2020-03-24T14:32:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Volker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/77aa72/32.png) [@Volker](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Volker)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 2:32pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-language-server-in-vs-code-couldn-t-start/36449/1 "2020-03-24T14:32:38Z")

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Hey,

I´m having problems to setup the julia VS code extension. I´m using Julia 1.3.1 on Windows 10 and the latest VS Code extension 0.15.16. I set the julia executable path of the julia VS Code extension to my julia installation path C:\Users\Volker\_Daten\Software\Julia-1.3.1\bin, but everytime I get the message "Could not start the julia language server. Does anyone have any idea what I´m doing wrong?

Best regards  
Volker

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**Author:** ![davidanthoff](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/davidanthoff/32/223493_2.png) [@davidanthoff](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/davidanthoff)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 5:32pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-language-server-in-vs-code-couldn-t-start/36449/2 "2020-03-24T17:32:46Z")

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You need to put in the path to the exe, not just the folder. So probably `C:\Users\Volker\_Daten\Software\Julia-1.3.1\bin\julia.exe`.

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**Author:** ![Volker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/77aa72/32.png) [@Volker](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Volker)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2020, 6:48am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-language-server-in-vs-code-couldn-t-start/36449/3 "2020-03-25T06:48:25Z")

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> [@davidanthoff](#):
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> `julia.exe` .

Thank you. It works