Elastic search configuration

[Bombardier]

Hi guys
I am having some difficulty configuring my elastic search installed on my server and starting elastic search
I wonder if anybody can point me in the right direction

my host has instructed me to configure the ES software & then start the program running

This is what they have said

To start you need to just log into the server, and execute the
Elasticsearch command to test if it's working.

/usr/home/**/ES/bin/elasticsearch

From there you can use cURL to check if it's actually running.

curl -X GET http://localhost:9200/


and this is where my lack of knowledge falls down, how do I do that?

 

[Bombardier]

Well I used putty to use the above commands and..... nothing could really use some help

 

[AndyB]

From the terminal:

service elasticsearch start

Then to check status of elasticsearch:

service elasticsearch status

What does it show when you check the status?

 

[bzcomputers]

Be aware Elastic Search 7 came out last week with performance improvements in search and indexing. Be sure to check the version installed on your server.

Latest version: 7.0.0
Release Date: April 10, 2019

If you are already running version 6.x.x you will need to make some changes in order to get version 7 running on your system. Details here: https://xenforo.com/community/resources/elasticsearch-6-installation-on-centos-7.5841/updates