Upgrading elasticsearch from 1.7.3 to 2.1.1

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Hello,

I'm in the process of upgrading elasticsearch 1.7.3 to 2.1.1 and have discovered that the default location for the elasticsearch.yml file (config file) has been changed from /etc/elasticsearch to /usr/share/elasticsearch/bin. I'm running elasticsearch 2.1.1 on Ubuntu 12.

I have tried passing this new location of the elasticsearch.yml as a variable within the /etc/init.d/elasticsearch file so that when the elasticsearch service starts up, it looks for the elasticsearch.yml file in /usr/share/elasticsearch/bin. However it doesn't, it continues to reference the old location (/etc/elasticsearch) for the elasticsearch.yml .

How do I ensure that the new location (/usr/share/elasticsearch/bin) is used by elasticsearch?

Thanks

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Nope, it hasn't, it's still /etc/elasticsearch.

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I also asked this question and this config issue has also now affected my ability to install plugins i.e.

I get a CONF_FILE error when I now attempt to install any plugin in ES 2.1.1.

I'm upgrading from 1.7.3 (where all my plugins worked fine) to 2.1.1 where they now don't.

Can you help?

Thanks

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What OS are you on, how did you install and how did you upgrade?

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Hi,

I'm on ubuntu 12.04 and upgrading ES from 1.7.3 to 2.1.1.

When I attempt to install a cloud-aws plugin, I receive the following error:

/usr/share/elasticsearch# bin/plugin install cloud-aws
CONF_FILE setting is no longer supported. elasticsearch.yml must be placed in the config directory and cannot be renamed.

I've placed the elasticsearch.yml in /usr/share/elasticsearch/bin for version 2.1.1.

I've also confirmed that I'm running the latest version of the /etc/init.d/elasticsearch file with the following lines.

CONF_FILE setting was removed

if [ ! -z "$CONF_FILE" ]; then
echo "CONF_FILE setting is no longer supported. elasticsearch.yml must be placed in the config directory and cannot be renamed."
exit 1
fi

I'm a bit confused because there is some documentation that says that the elasticsearch.yml should be placed in $ES_HOME/bin for ES 2.1.1?

Thanks

Thanks

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Can you link to it?

Can you also provide the complete startup command and the corresponding output.