Installing a plugin manually
Sometimes your plugin is not available online or the standard installation fails, so you need to install your plugin manually.
Getting ready
You need an installed ElasticSearch server.
How to do it...
We assume that your plugin is named awesome and it's packed in a file called awesome.zip.
The steps required to execute a manually installed 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 contents of the plugin in the plugins directory.
Remove the zip archive to clean up unused files.
How it works...
Every ElasticSearch plugin is contained in a directory (usually named as the plugin name).
If the plugin is a site one, the plugin should contain a directory called _site, which contains the static files that must be served by the server. If the plugin is a binary one, the plugin directory should be filled with one or more jar files.
When ElasticSearch starts, it...
