# Step Four: Create the Configuration File

The process-conf.xml file contains the information that Data Loader requires to process the data. Each `<bean>` in the process-conf.xml file refers to a single process such as an insert, upsert, or export. Therefore, this file can contain multiple processes.

:::note
The Data Loader command-line interface is supported for Windows only.
:::

In this step, you edit the file to insert accounts into Salesforce.

1. Make a copy of the process-conf.xml file from the \samples\conf directory. Be sure to maintain a copy of the original because it contains examples of other types of Data Loader processing such as upserts and exports.

2. Open the file in a text editor, and replace the contents with the following XML.

   :::note
   Remove `sfdc.password` if you're using OAuth for login authentication.
   :::

   ```xml
   <!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC "-//SPRING//DTD BEAN//EN" "http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans.dtd">
                           <beans>
                           <bean id="accountInsert"
                           class="com.salesforce.dataloader.process.ProcessRunner"
                           scope="prototype">
                           <description>accountInsert job gets the account record from the CSV file 
                           and inserts it into Salesforce.</description>
                           <property name="name" value="accountInsert"/>
                           <property name="configOverrideMap">
                           <map>
                           <entry key="sfdc.debugMessages" value="false"/>
                           <entry key="sfdc.debugMessagesFile" 
                           value="C:\DLTest\Log\accountInsertSoapTrace.log"/>
                           <entry key="sfdc.endpoint" value="https://servername.salesforce.com"/>
                           <entry key="sfdc.username" value="admin@Org.org"/>
                           <!--Password below has been encrypted using key file, 
                           therefore, it will not work without the key setting: 
                           process.encryptionKeyFile.
                           The password is not a valid encrypted value, 
                           please generate the real value using the encrypt.bat utility -->
                           <entry key="sfdc.password" value="e8a68b73992a7a54"/>
                           <entry key="process.encryptionKeyFile" 
                           value="c:\Users\{user}\.dataloader\dataLoader.key"/>
                           <entry key="sfdc.timeoutSecs" value="600"/>
                           <entry key="sfdc.loadBatchSize" value="200"/>
                           <entry key="sfdc.entity" value="Account"/>
                           <entry key="process.operation" value="insert"/>
                           <entry key="process.mappingFile" 
                           value="C:\DLTest\Command Line\Config\accountInsertMap.sdl"/>
                           <entry key="dataAccess.name" 
                           value="C:\DLTest\In\insertAccounts.csv"/>
                           <entry key="process.outputSuccess" 
                           value="c:\DLTest\Log\accountInsert_success.csv"/>
                           <entry key="process.outputError" 
                           value="c:\DLTest\Log\accountInsert_error.csv"/>
                           <entry key="dataAccess.type" value="csvRead"/>
                           <entry key="process.initialLastRunDate" 
                           value="2005-12-01T00:00:00.000-0800"/>
                           </map>
                           </property>
                           </bean>
                           </beans>
   ```

3. Modify the following parameters in the process-conf.xml file. For more information about the process configuration parameters, see [Data Loader Process Configuration Parameters](/docs/platform/data-loader-impl/guide/loader-params.md).

   - `sfdc.endpoint`—Enter the URL of the Salesforce instance for your organization; for example, https\://*yourInstance*.salesforce.com/.

   - `sfdc.username`—Enter the username Data Loader uses to log in.

   - `sfdc.password`—Enter the encrypted password value that you created in step 2.

   - `process.mappingFile`—Enter the path and file name of the mapping file.

   - `dataAccess.Name`—Enter the path and file name of the data file that contains the accounts that you want to import.

   - `sfdc.debugMessages`—Currently set to `false`. Set it to `true` for troubleshooting. If set to `true`, debug messages are captured in the file specified by `sfdc.debugMessagesFile`.

     :::note
     Debug messages can contain sensitive information such as session id.
     :::

   - `sfdc.debugMessagesFile`—Enter the path and file name of the command-line log file.

   - `process.outputSuccess`—Enter the path and file name of the success log file.

   - `process.outputError`—Enter the path and file name of the error log file.

   :::note
   Use caution when using different XML editors to edit the process-conf.xml file. Some editors add XML tags to the beginning and end of the file, which causes the import to fail.
   :::

4. To perform operations in a sandbox org, set the following parameters.

   - `sfdc.oauth.environment`—Enter the value `Sandbox`.
   - `sfdc.endpoint.Sandbox`—Enter the value `test.salesforce.com`.

**See Also**

- [Data Loader Command Line Introduction](/docs/platform/data-loader-impl/guide/command-line-intro.md)
- [Step Five: Import the Data](/docs/platform/data-loader-impl/guide/command-line-import-data.md)