Prerequisites for Elasticsearch installation:
Elasticsearch needs Java 8 or higher versions to install and run.
Steps to install Elasticsearch:
- Download the latest version of Elasticsearch according to your operating system (windows, linux, RPM, Macos, DEB, MSI) from the official website. It will be downloaded as a .zip file.
- Unzip the downloaded file. Structure will looks like:
Here bin folder contains all files to run Elasticsearch and config folder contains all files related to configurations and settings. - Run elasticsearch.bat file (present in bin folder) to start Elasticsearch.
- Hit http://localhost:9200/ in your browser, to check, Elasticsearch is running or not.
