## The problem
Issue ClickHouse/clickhouse#56392 (closed, 24 comments): **Describe what's wrong** I setup clickhouse cluster on three nodes and setup clickhouse-keeper on the same nodes according to the official documents on three virtual machines. the version is : > ClickHouse server version 23.10.1.1976 (official build) > ClickHouse server version 23.10.1.1976 (official build) **what works not as it is supposed to.** the result of `SELECT * FROM system.zookeeper WHERE path IN ('/', '/clickhouse');` is: > 2023.11.06 15:54:29.902052 [ 4478 ] {} [Error] virtual bool DB::DDLWorker::initializeMainThread(): Code: 999. Coordination::Exception: All connection tries fail

## The fix
If ClickHouse and standalone Keeper run on the same machine, keep their configs in separate directories. The server will start an embedded Keeper using the standalone Keeper's config when both configs live in the same folder, and the cluster breaks. Put the standalone Keeper config in its own directory away from the server's config.xml so the server never picks it up.

## Notes
Thread: https://github.com/ClickHouse/clickhouse/issues/56392. Verified against the closed issue and the maintainer/accepted answer there.