Elastic search Configuration

Install JDK

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:openjdk-r/ppa

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk

Install Elastic Search

wget http://download.elasticsearch.org/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-0.20.2.zip

sudo unzip elasticsearch-0.20.2 -d /usr/local/elasticsearch

rm elasticsearch-0.20.2.zip

Add EC2 cloud plugin for elastic

cd /usr/local/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-0.20.2/

sudo bin/plugin -install elasticsearch/elasticsearch-cloud-aws/1.4.0

Start elastic in the background

Elastic files are present in /usr/local/elasticsearch: sudo bin/elasticsearch

Add elasticsearch service in server init.d folder to start/stop automatically according to server state

1. Create a file called 'elasticsearch' in /etc/init.d/ folder.

2. Add the following contents to file and save it.

#! /bin/sh

BEGIN INIT INFO

Provides: elasticsearch

Required-Start: $all

Required-Stop: $all

Default-Start: 2 3 4 5

Default-Stop: 0 1 6

Short-Description: Starts elasticsearch

Description: Starts elasticsearch using start-stop-daemon

END INIT INFO

ES_HOME=/usr/local/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-0.20.2 ES_MIN_MEM=256m ES_MAX_MEM=1g DAEMON=$ES_HOME/bin/elasticsearch NAME=elasticsearch DESC=elasticsearch PID_FILE=/var/run/$NAME.pid LOG_DIR=/var/log/$NAME DATA_DIR=$ES_HOME/$NAME/data WORK_DIR=/tmp/$NAME CONFIG_FILE=$ES_HOME/config/elasticsearch.yml DAEMON_OPTS="-p $PID_FILE -Des.config=$CONFIG_FILE -Des.path.home=$ES_HOME -Des.path.logs=$LOG_DIR -Des.path.data=$DATA_DIR -Des.path.work=$WORK_DIR"

test -x $DAEMON || exit 0

set -e

case "$1" in start) echo -n "Starting $DESC: " mkdir -p $LOG_DIR $DATA_DIR $WORK_DIR if start-stop-daemon --start --pidfile $PID_FILE --startas $DAEMON -- $DAEMON_OPTS then echo "started." else echo "failed." fi ;; stop) echo -n "Stopping $DESC: " if start-stop-daemon --stop --pidfile $PID_FILE then echo "stopped." else echo "failed." fi ;; restart|force-reload) ${0} stop sleep 0.5 ${0} start ;; *) N=/etc/init.d/$NAME echo "Usage: $N {start|stop|restart|force-reload}" >&2 exit 1 ;; esac

exit 0##

3. While in init.d folder , run sudo chmod 755 elasticsearch

4. Run sudo systemctl start elasticsearch