Error installing graph plugin

I'm trying to install graph-2.3.1.zip into our elasticsearch-2.2.0 installation. I'm following the instructions at Installing Graph | Elasticsearch Graph [2.4] | Elastic, installing from a zip file and I'm getting the error:

CONF_FILE setting is no longer supported. elasticsearch.yml must be placed in the config directory and cannot be renamed.

From this post, CONF_FILE setting is no longer supported - #9 by ekovacs, I see that I should comment out the CONF_FILE line in /etc/sysconfig/elasticsearch. I did that on all three nodes of my elasticsearch cluster, restarted the cluster and ran the install again but got the same error. What am I doing wrong?

Hi Craig,

Graph-2.3.1 requires elasticsearch 2.3.1

OK, thanks for responding.