In this tutorials, we will show how to install Elasticsearch on Windows 10 operating system.
Versions:
- Windows 10 Pro, 64 bit
- Elasticsearch 6.7.1
Prerequisites:
Elasticsearch requires Java 8 (or later) installation to run. If you haven’t installed Java yet, follow our previous article to install Java on Windows operating system.
Install Elasticsearch on Windows 10:
Follow the below steps to download and install Elasticsearch.
Get Elasticsearch:
Download the latest Elasticsearchthe from the official website. Usually, it will be available as a .zip file.
Install Elasticsearch:
The elasticsearch-x.x.x.zip file will be download, upon clicking the above-highlighted URL.
Extract the downloaded file; then you would see the below folder structure.
/bin folder contains all binaries required to run Elasticsearch.
/config folder contains all configuration properties related to Elasticsearch, Java and user settings.
Start Elasticsearch:
Once the downloading process completed; now we can start the Elasticsearch from the command line.
D:\softwares\elasticsearch-6.7.1\bin>elasticsearch.exeIf everything went well, the command line terminal would display output similar to the following:
Elasticsearch loads the configuration details from an elasticsearch.yml file while running it. If you wanted to change the configurations; you always free to change it from the elasticsearch.yml file or you can even provide as parameters while executing the elasticsearch.exe file.
Checking Elasticsearch is running:
You can test that your Elasticsearch node is running by sending an HTTP request to port 9200 on localhost:
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Happy Learning 🙂
