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 itUnzip the content of the plugin in the plugins directory
Remove the zip archive to clean up unused files