Elasticsearch is one of most powerfull opensource platform for distributed REStFull Search and Analysis engine.

you can read further about elasticsearch here . In this Post, will explain how to setup and running elasticsearch on ubuntu 14.04 Server version box.

These are the steps :

• Install Java, you can use OpenJDK or proprietary  Oracle JDK. How to install Oracle JDK, will be described on separated article
• Download Latest elasticsearch (deb version)

• Install Using sudo dpkg -i elasticsearch-1.5.0.deb

• Install Java Service Wrapper for elastic search

•  Create Simbolic Link for elasticsearch service and other directory

• Start elastic search start

• Then try execute curl http://localhost:9200 , if all currently running well, you will see message above …

Jakarta, 30 March 2015

A. Ahmad Kusumah