# Index a simple folder with simple text files - how hard can it be **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [October 30, 2016, 6:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-a-simple-folder-with-simple-text-files-how-hard-can-it-be/64378 "2016-10-30T18:17:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![avilleneuve](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/avilleneuve/32/12809_2.png) [@avilleneuve](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/avilleneuve)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2016, 6:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-a-simple-folder-with-simple-text-files-how-hard-can-it-be/64378/1 "2016-10-30T18:17:00Z")
Hello Folks I "finally" got ES 5.0 working on Windows Server 2012. What a bear! And I managed to get the Shakespeare data set loaded and searchable. I have two things I would like to accomplish with ES 5.0. 1. index and search a simple folder with simple text files within it .... 2. index a small MySQL database with three tables in it .... thirty fields max I have been cramming through the manuals and documentation and blogs and for the life of me I can't seem to find simple instructions on how to do these two seeming simple things I do with many other search engine tools. Help assistance would be greatly appreciated. Arnold ---
**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2016, 7:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-a-simple-folder-with-simple-text-files-how-hard-can-it-be/64378/2 "2016-10-30T19:11:00Z")
> index and search a simple folder with simple text files within it .... I suspect [GitHub - dadoonet/fscrawler: Elasticsearch File System Crawler (FS Crawler)](https://github.com/dadoonet/fscrawler) can help you. > index a small MySQL database with three tables in it .... thirty fields max Have a look at Logstash and its jdbc input plugin. ---
**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, 10:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-a-simple-folder-with-simple-text-files-how-hard-can-it-be/64378/3 "2017-07-05T22:08:26Z")