
Elasticsearch 5.x Cookbook
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Sometimes your plugin is not available online or standard installation fails, so you need to install your plugin manually.
You need a working Elasticsearch installation as we described in the Downloading and installing Elasticsearch recipe and a prompt/shell to execute commands in Elasticsearch install directory.
We assume that your plugin is named awesome
and it's packed in a file called awesome.zip
.
The steps required to manually install a plugin are:
Copy your zip file in the plugins directory in your Elasticsearch home installation
If the directory named plugins
doesn't exist, create it
Unzip the content of the plugin in the plugins directory
Remove the zip archive to clean up unused files
Every Elasticsearch plugin is contained in a directory (usually named as the plugin name). The plugin directory should be filled with one or more JAR files.
When Elasticsearch starts, it scans the plugins directory and loads them.
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