# Elastic Search License Installation on Windows

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-license-installation-on-windows/72138
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [January 19, 2017, 9:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-license-installation-on-windows/72138 "2017-01-19T09:15:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author: ![prakash1243](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/35a633/32.png) [@prakash1243](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/prakash1243)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2017, 9:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-license-installation-on-windows/72138/1 "2017-01-19T09:15:19Z")

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Hi-  
I've received the license for Elastic search, Would you please let me know, how do I install the license on the Windows-7 machine ?

CURL doesn't work in my machine. Thanks !

Regards.  
Prakash

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### Author: ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2017, 9:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-license-installation-on-windows/72138/2 "2017-01-19T09:38:37Z")

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I moved your question to #x-pack.

I believe you can always use Kibana or any REST plugin for your browser?

Instead of:

```auto
curl -XPUT -u elastic 'http://<host>:<port>/_xpack/license' -d @license.json

```

Open kibana then in the console:

```auto
PUT _xpack/license
// Copy the content of the license.json here

```

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### Author: ![prakash1243](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/35a633/32.png) [@prakash1243](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/prakash1243)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2017, 10:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-license-installation-on-windows/72138/3 "2017-01-19T10:38:50Z")

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Hi @dadoonet:

I fixed it. Thanks for your timely help.

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### Author: ![Babadofar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/babadofar/32/44803_2.png) [@Babadofar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Babadofar)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2017, 12:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-license-installation-on-windows/72138/4 "2017-01-23T12:10:20Z")

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In case you want to script this, you can use recent versions of Windows Powershell

```
gc .\<license file> | Invoke-WebRequest -uri http://<host>:<port>/_xpack/license -Credential <username> -Method Put

```

It will prompt you for a password. I suppose you could create the credential in script as well

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### Author: ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2017, 12:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-license-installation-on-windows/72138/5 "2017-01-23T12:53:16Z")

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@Babadofar Would `-Method Put` work as well? I guess so but prefer asking.

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### Author: ![Babadofar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/babadofar/32/44803_2.png) [@Babadofar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Babadofar)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2017, 2:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-license-installation-on-windows/72138/6 "2017-01-23T14:01:38Z")

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Oh sure, it should be PUT 🙂 I fixed the original post as well...

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### Author: ![Rose\_Du2017](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/439d5e/32.png) [@Rose\_Du2017](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rose_Du2017)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2017, 7:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-license-installation-on-windows/72138/7 "2017-02-07T07:39:49Z")

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@dadoonet  
my issue is X-Pack is expired, I can not start elasticsearch and Kibana, so I can't use your method, do you have any other way for window? thank you.

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### Author: ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2017, 10:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-license-installation-on-windows/72138/8 "2017-02-07T10:54:27Z")

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I don't know. Open a new thread.

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### Author: ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2017, 10:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-license-installation-on-windows/72138/9 "2017-03-07T10:54:29Z")

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