There are two main ways of running and installing elasticsearch-head

• Install elasticsearch-head:
  – for Elasticsearch 5.x:
  site plugins are not supported. Run elasticsearch-head as a standalone server
  – for Elasticsearch 2.x – 4.x:
  sudo elasticsearch/bin/plugin install mobz/elasticsearch-head
  – for Elasticsearch 1.x:
  sudo elasticsearch/bin/plugin -install mobz/elasticsearch-head/1.x
  – for Elasticsearch 0.9:
  sudo elasticsearch/bin/plugin -install mobz/elasticsearch-head/0.9

• open http://localhost:9200/_plugin/head/

This will automatically download the latest version of elasticsearch-head from github and run it as a plugin within the elasticsearch cluster. In this mode;

• elasticsearch-head automatically connects to the node that is running it

Note on different Elasticsearch installation path:

• If you’ve installed the .deb package, then the plugin executable will be available at /usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/plugin.
• If you’ve installed Elasticsearch via Homebrew, plugin executable will be available at /usr/local/Cellar/elasticsearch/(elasticsearch version)/libexec/bin/plugin.

• enable cors by adding http.cors.enabled: true in elasticsearch configuration. Don’t forget to also set http.cors.allow-origin because no origin allowed by default. http.cors.allow-origin: "*" is valid value, however it’s considered as a security risk as your cluster is open to cross origin from anywhere. Check Elasticsearch documentation on this parameter: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/modules-http.html#modules-http
• git clone git://github.com/mobz/elasticsearch-head.git
• cd elasticsearch-head
• npm install
• grunt server
• open http://localhost:9100/

This will start a local webserver running on port 9100 serving elasticsearch-head

• Best option if you are likely to connect to several different clusters

elastisearch-head is a standalone webapp written in good-ol’ html5. This means, you can put it up on any webserver, run it directly from the filesystem, use it on an iPad, or put it on a floppy disk and carry it with you.

Parameters may be appended to the url to set an initial state eg. head/index.html?base_uri=http://node-01.example.com:9200

• base_uri force elasticsearch-head to connect to a particular node.
• dashboard experimental feature to open elasticsearch-head in a mode suitable for dashboard / radiator. Accepts one parameter dashboard=cluster
• auth_user adds basic auth credentials to http requests ( requires elasticsearch-http-basic plugin or a reverse proxy )
• auth_password basic auth password as above (note: without additional security layers, passwords are sent over the network in the clear )

To contribute to elasticsearch-head you will need the following developer tools

1. git and a github account
2. node
3. grunt-cli
4. (to run jasmine tests) phantomjs

Then

1. create a fork of elasticsearch-head on github
2. clone your fork to your machine
3. cd elasticsearch-head
4. npm install # downloads node dev dependencies
5. grunt dev # builds the distribution files, then watches the src directory for changes (if you have an warning like "Warning: Task “clean” failed. Use —force to continue.", well use —force ;) )

Changes to both _site and src directories must be committed, to allow people to
run elasticsearch-head without running dev tools and follow existing dev patterns,
such as indenting with tabs.

• Chinese by darkcount
• English (primary) by Ben Birch
• French by David Pilato
• Portuguese by caiodangelo
• Turkish by Cemre Mengu

To contribute an internationalisation

1. Follow “Contributing” instructions above
2. Find your 2-character ISO 639-1 language code
3. edit site/index.html to add your 2 letter language code to the data-langs attribute of this line @here">@
4. make a copy of src/app/langs/en_strings.js prefixed with your language code
5. convert english strings and fragments to your language. Formatting Rules
6. Submit a pull request