title: Cassandra on Windows: Fatal configuration error
body: <p>We installed Cassandra 2.0.6 in Windows 7 with JRE 7 and we updated the cassandra.yaml file as shown:</p>
  
  <p>data_file_directories: D:\cassandra_data\data <BR>
  commitlog_directory: D:\cassandra_data\commitlog <BR>
  saved_caches_directory: D:\cassandra_data\saved_caches <BR></p>
  
  <p>When we are trying to start cassandra server (D:\cassabdra\bin\cassandra.bat) we are getting following error </p>
  
  <p><b>Starting Cassandra Server<br>
   INFO 13:19:39,272 Logging initialized<br>
   INFO 13:19:39,299 Loading settings from file:/D:/cassandra/conf/cassandra.yaml<br>
  ERROR 13:19:39,540 Fatal configuration error</b><br>
  org.apache.cassandra.exceptions.ConfigurationException: Invalid yaml
      at org.apache.cassandra.config.YamlConfigurationLoader.loadConfig(YamlConfigurationLoader.java:100)
      at org.apache.cassandra.config.DatabaseDescriptor.loadConfig(DatabaseDescriptor.java:135)
      at org.apache.cassandra.config.DatabaseDescriptor.(DatabaseDescriptor.java:111)
      at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.setup(CassandraDaemon.java:153)
      at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.activate(CassandraDaemon.java:471)
      at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.main(CassandraDaemon.java:560)
  Caused by: Can't construct a java object for tag:yaml.org,2002:org.apache.cassandra.config.Config; exception=Cannot create property=data_file_directories for JavaBean=org.apache.cassandra.config.Config@1cb839f; No single argument constructor found for class [Ljava.lang.String;
   in 'reader', line 10, column 1:
      <B>cluster_name: 'Test Cluster'</B></p>