Username/Password Config Option?

[Semper Fidelis]

I'm trying to configure Enhanced Search to connect to ObjectRocket which is a hosted ElasticSearch instance.

I use Rackspace Cloud Sites so I don't have the option of installing the repos on my own servers. Since ObjectRocket is a Rackspace service that offers ElasticSearch as a Service I can connect to the hosted ElasticSearch on the ServiceNet of Rackspace with no external connections.

The only hitch is that I need to connect to the instance via Username/Password.

is there any config file in Enhanced Search or elsewhere that will accomplish this?

 

[Mike]

It's not something we explicitly support (as Elasticsearch itself doesn't support authentication).

You may be able to change the host name specified in the options to "usernameassword@hostname" to do this though.

 

[Semper Fidelis]

I am not trying to be argumentative but ElasticSearch does support username/password in its repo. Can you tell me where, in the files the info is being passed to the node so I might be able to get some help on doing this?

 

[Mike]

Well it's done through an extension system rather than the core part of Elasticsearch.

The connection is made through the XenES_Api class.

 

[Semper Fidelis]

In api.php?

 

[Mike]

Yes, library/XenES/Api.php. The URL to connect to is built in the __construct function.

 

[Semper Fidelis]

Thanks. Well, FWIW, your first idea was the way to go.

http://usernameassword@dfw-14200-0.es.objectrocket.com:14200

In my case, because I am a Rackspace Cloud Sites customer I was able to use the ServiceNet address. It's indexing now.