# Hunspell dictionary issue installation **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [June 20, 2016, 3:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hunspell-dictionary-issue-installation/53337 "2016-06-20T15:36:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ivan\_Ghisleni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/5daacb/32.png) [@Ivan\_Ghisleni](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ivan_Ghisleni)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2016, 3:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hunspell-dictionary-issue-installation/53337/1 "2016-06-20T15:36:48Z")
Hi, I'm trying to install hunspell dictionary for italian language but I don't know where set the dictionary path. Configuration: Os: CentOS 6.5 Elasticsearch: 2.1.0 - path: /etc/elasticsearch I put all the dictionaries into /etc/elasticsearch/config/hunspell/it\_IT - it\_IT.aff - it\_IT.dic I don't know how to add the dictionary into configuration elasticsearch.yml I've tried with this config into elasticsearch.yml: path.conf: /etc/elasticsearch/config/hunspell/it\_IT/it\_IT.dic but when I restart the service I've got error. Please help me!! ---
**Author:** ![mainec](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mainec/32/5557_2.png) [@mainec](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mainec)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2016, 4:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hunspell-dictionary-issue-installation/53337/2 "2016-06-20T16:15:37Z")
> [@Ivan\_Ghisleni](#): > > but when I restart the service I've got error. What kind of error do you get? I suppose you already found: [Hunspell Stemmer | Elasticsearch: The Definitive Guide [2.x] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/hunspell.html) ---
**Author:** ![Ivan\_Ghisleni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/5daacb/32.png) [@Ivan\_Ghisleni](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ivan_Ghisleni)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2016, 8:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hunspell-dictionary-issue-installation/53337/3 "2016-06-21T08:52:50Z")
> [@Ivan\_Ghisleni](#): > > path.conf: /etc/elasticsearch/config/hunspell/it\_IT/it\_IT.dic This is the error i get ``` Avvio di elasticsearch: log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (bootstrap). log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly. log4j:WARN See http://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/faq.html#noconfig for more info. Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalStateException: Unable to access 'path.conf' (/etc/elasticsearch/config/hunspell/it_IT/it_IT.dic) Likely root cause: java.nio.file.NotDirectoryException: /etc/elasticsearch/config/hunspell/it_IT/it_IT.dic at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Security.ensureDirectoryExists(Security.java:253) at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Security.addPath(Security.java:227) at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Security.addFilePermissions(Security.java:194) at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Security.createPermissions(Security.java:184) at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Security.configure(Security.java:105) at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.setupSecurity(Bootstrap.java:196) at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.setup(Bootstrap.java:167) at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.init(Bootstrap.java:285) at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:35) Refer to the log for complete error details. [FALLITO] ``` this is the config I've added into elasticsearch.yml path.conf: /etc/elasticsearch/config/hunspell/it\_IT/it\_IT.dic ---
**Author:** ![Ivan\_Ghisleni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/5daacb/32.png) [@Ivan\_Ghisleni](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ivan_Ghisleni)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2016, 8:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hunspell-dictionary-issue-installation/53337/4 "2016-06-21T08:58:16Z")
this is my elastisearch.yml ``` # Use a descriptive name for the node: node.name: "Elastic Netweek Local" # Path to directory where to store the data (separate multiple locations by comma): path.data: /var/elasticsearch/data # Path to log files: path.logs: /var/elasticsearch/logs # TESTING PARAMS index.number_of_shards: 1 index.number_of_replicas: 0 # ENABLE DYNAMIC SCRIPTS script.inline: on script.indexed: on path.conf: /etc/elasticsearch/config/hunspell/it_IT/it_IT.dic ``` ---
**Author:** ![mainec](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mainec/32/5557_2.png) [@mainec](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mainec)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2016, 9:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hunspell-dictionary-issue-installation/53337/5 "2016-06-21T09:18:09Z")
> [@Ivan\_Ghisleni](#): > > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalStateException: Unable to access 'path.conf' (/etc/elasticsearch/config/hunspell/it\_IT/it\_IT.dic) > Likely root cause: java.nio.file.NotDirectoryException: /etc/elasticsearch/config/hunspell/it\_IT/it\_IT.dic Did you check that the directory listed in the error message exists and is readable by whatever user your elasticsearch instance runs as? Isabel ---
**Author:** ![Ivan\_Ghisleni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/5daacb/32.png) [@Ivan\_Ghisleni](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ivan_Ghisleni)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2016, 10:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hunspell-dictionary-issue-installation/53337/6 "2016-06-21T10:19:37Z")
I had the same idea, so I've set the path /etc/elasticsearch/config to 777 permissions but nothing changes. I start the service as root, so I should not have problems of permissions, but the error is the same.... I don't know what error I'm committing. ---
**Author:** ![Ivan\_Ghisleni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/5daacb/32.png) [@Ivan\_Ghisleni](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ivan_Ghisleni)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2016, 3:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hunspell-dictionary-issue-installation/53337/7 "2016-06-21T15:56:45Z")
I'm using Elasticsearch 2.1 reading the setting changest from 1.x to 2.x I sow that: ``` Hunspell dictionary configuration The parameter indices.analysis.hunspell.dictionary.location has been removed, and /hunspell is always used. ``` So it seems that if I put the dictionary into /etc/elasticsearch/config/hunspell/it\_IT/it\_IT.dic|it\_IT.aff Elastic load directly...... But if I make the post request for creating the index ``` { "analysis" : { "analyzer" : { "en" : { "tokenizer" : "standard", "filter" : ["lowercase", "it_IT"] } }, "filter" : { "en_US" : { "type" : "hunspell", "locale" : "it_IT", "dedup" : true } } } } ``` the response is : ``` { "error": { "root_cause": [ { "type": "index_creation_exception", "reason": "failed to create index" } ], "type": "unchecked_execution_exception", "reason": "ElasticsearchException[Could not find hunspell dictionary [en_US]]", "caused_by": { "type": "exception", "reason": "Could not find hunspell dictionary [en_US]" } }, "status": 500 } ``` ---
**Author:** ![animageofmine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7feea3/32.png) [@animageofmine](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/animageofmine)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2017, 9:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hunspell-dictionary-issue-installation/53337/8 "2017-01-06T21:32:01Z")
did you ever solve this issue? ---
**Author:** ![Ivan\_Ghisleni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/5daacb/32.png) [@Ivan\_Ghisleni](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ivan_Ghisleni)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2017, 9:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hunspell-dictionary-issue-installation/53337/9 "2017-01-09T09:34:34Z")
No, not solved do u have some suggest? ---
**Author:** ![animageofmine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7feea3/32.png) [@animageofmine](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/animageofmine)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2017, 4:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hunspell-dictionary-issue-installation/53337/10 "2017-01-09T16:48:13Z")
Yes, I just solved this last Friday. Copy the Hunspell folder under /etc/elasticsearch and not under /etc/elasticsearch/config. Make sure it has right permissions (chown if required). I am assuming that you didn't override the default config directory which is /etc/elasticsearch. See my reply here: [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/37168208/hunspell-for-elasticsearch/41517146#41517146](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/37168208/hunspell-for-elasticsearch/41517146#41517146) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 10:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hunspell-dictionary-issue-installation/53337/11 "2017-07-05T22:04:23Z")