# Manual Install of Plugins **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [September 13, 2011, 2:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/manual-install-of-plugins/5372 "2011-09-13T14:13:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Aradon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@Aradon](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Aradon)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2011, 2:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/manual-install-of-plugins/5372/1 "2011-09-13T14:13:23Z")
Hello, I'm trying to manually install the river-couchdb plugin. For whatever reason I can wget the zip file but I cannot get it to download by doing the 'plugin -install river-couchdb' command. As such I went ahead and did a wget on the zip file that is shown when doing the install command, unzip it using the unzip command and then moved the .jar into the plugins folder. Is this the correct procedure? I believe it's not working because I get the following in my log file: "[2011-09-13 09:25:06,411][INFO][plugins] [Banshee] loaded [], sites []" To note, I have started and stopped the elasticsearch service and have attemped to delete and recreate several times. Fun time command dump: curl -XDELETE '[http://localhost:9200/\_all](http://localhost:9200/_all)' rcelasticsearch stop rcelasticsearch start curl -X PUT '[http://localhost:9200/\_river/my\_idx/\_meta](http://localhost:9200/_river/my_idx/_meta)' -d '{ "type" : "couchdb", "couchdb" : { "host" : "localhost", "port" : 5984, "db" : "my\_db", "filter" : null }}' This is all on ubuntu, using Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0\_06-b02) -Aradon ---
**Author:** ![kimchy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kimchy/32/44952_2.png) [@kimchy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kimchy)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2011, 2:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/manual-install-of-plugins/5372/2 "2011-09-13T14:17:30Z")
You need to have a directory under plugins which represent the plugin installed, and within it, the relevant code libs. So, create a couchdb directory under plugins (for example) and put the jar file within it. On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Aradon [aradon@gmail.com](mailto:aradon@gmail.com) wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to manually install the river-couchdb plugin. For > whatever reason I can wget the zip file but I cannot get it to > download by doing the 'plugin -install river-couchdb' command. > > As such I went ahead and did a wget on the zip file that is shown > when doing the install command, unzip it using the unzip command and > then moved the .jar into the plugins folder. > > Is this the correct procedure? I believe it's not working because I > get the following in my log file: > > "[2011-09-13 09:25:06,411][INFO][plugins] [Banshee] > loaded , sites " > > To note, I have started and stopped the elasticsearch service and have > attemped to delete and recreate several times. > > Fun time command dump: > > curl -XDELETE '[http://localhost:9200/\_all](http://localhost:9200/_all)' > rcelasticsearch stop > rcelasticsearch start > > curl -X PUT '[http://localhost:9200/\_river/my\_idx/\_meta](http://localhost:9200/_river/my_idx/_meta)' -d '{ "type" : > "couchdb", "couchdb" : { "host" : "localhost", "port" : 5984, "db" : > "my\_db", "filter" : null }}' > > This is all on ubuntu, using Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build > 1.6.0\_06-b02) > > -Aradon ---
**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:** [September 13, 2011, 2:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/manual-install-of-plugins/5372/3 "2011-09-13T14:18:59Z")
I think that the zip file contents has to be unzipped in the plugins/pluginname dir and not directly under plugins. HTH David 😉 Le 13 sept. 2011 à 16:13, Aradon [aradon@gmail.com](mailto:aradon@gmail.com) a écrit : > Hello, > > I'm trying to manually install the river-couchdb plugin. For > whatever reason I can wget the zip file but I cannot get it to > download by doing the 'plugin -install river-couchdb' command. > > As such I went ahead and did a wget on the zip file that is shown > when doing the install command, unzip it using the unzip command and > then moved the .jar into the plugins folder. > > Is this the correct procedure? I believe it's not working because I > get the following in my log file: > > "[2011-09-13 09:25:06,411][INFO][plugins] [Banshee] > loaded , sites " > > To note, I have started and stopped the elasticsearch service and have > attemped to delete and recreate several times. > > Fun time command dump: > > curl -XDELETE '[http://localhost:9200/\_all](http://localhost:9200/_all)' > rcelasticsearch stop > rcelasticsearch start > > curl -X PUT '[http://localhost:9200/\_river/my\_idx/\_meta](http://localhost:9200/_river/my_idx/_meta)' -d '{ "type" : > "couchdb", "couchdb" : { "host" : "localhost", "port" : 5984, "db" : > "my\_db", "filter" : null }}' > > This is all on ubuntu, using Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build > 1.6.0\_06-b02) > > -Aradon ---
**Author:** ![Aradon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@Aradon](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Aradon)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2011, 2:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/manual-install-of-plugins/5372/4 "2011-09-13T14:22:56Z")
That seems to have done it, Thanks! On Sep 13, 10:17 am, Shay Banon [kim...@gmail.com](mailto:kim...@gmail.com) wrote: > You need to have a directory under plugins which represent the plugin > installed, and within it, the relevant code libs. So, create a couchdb > directory under plugins (for example) and put the jar file within it. > > On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Aradon [ara...@gmail.com](mailto:ara...@gmail.com) wrote: > > > Hello, > > > I'm trying to manually install the river-couchdb plugin. For > > whatever reason I can wget the zip file but I cannot get it to > > download by doing the 'plugin -install river-couchdb' command. > > > As such I went ahead and did a wget on the zip file that is shown > > when doing the install command, unzip it using the unzip command and > > then moved the .jar into the plugins folder. > > > Is this the correct procedure? I believe it's not working because I > > get the following in my log file: > > > "[2011-09-13 09:25:06,411][INFO][plugins] [Banshee] > > loaded , sites " > > > To note, I have started and stopped the elasticsearch service and have > > attemped to delete and recreate several times. > > > Fun time command dump: > > > curl -XDELETE '[http://localhost:9200/\_all](http://localhost:9200/_all)' > > rcelasticsearch stop > > rcelasticsearch start > > > curl -X PUT '[http://localhost:9200/\_river/my\_idx/\_meta'-d](http://localhost:9200/_river/my_idx/_meta'-d) '{ "type" : > > "couchdb", "couchdb" : { "host" : "localhost", "port" : 5984, "db" : > > "my\_db", "filter" : null }}' > > > This is all on ubuntu, using Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build > > 1.6.0\_06-b02) > > > -Aradon ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 3:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/manual-install-of-plugins/5372/5 "2017-07-06T03:54:31Z")