Install Elasticsearch on Laravel Homestead

Recently I started working on a Laravel project that requires integration with Elasticsearch search engine. I didn’t want to change super cool development environment that Taylor (creator of Laravel) so kindly provided to us, so I installed Elasticsearch on Homestead instead of creating a new Vagrant box specially for this project. Here is a little snippet that will help you if you want to use Elasticsearch in you Laravel application.

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# Login as rootroot@homestead:~# sudo -s# Update Aptituderoot@homestead:~# apt-get update# Install Javaroot@homestead:~# apt-get install openjdk-7-jre-headless -y# Download and install Elasticsearch Public Signing Keyroot@homestead:~# wget -qO - https://packages.elastic.co/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch | sudo apt-key add -# Add repositoryroot@homestead:~# echo "deb http://packages.elastic.co/elasticsearch/2.x/debian stable main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/elasticsearch-2.x.list# Update Aptituderoot@homestead:~# apt-get update# Install Elasticsearchroot@homestead:~# apt-get install elasticsearch# Set Elasticsearch to run on startuproot@homestead:~# update-rc.d elasticsearch defaults 95 10# Start Elasticsearch serverroot@homestead:~# /etc/init.d/elasticsearch start

After that you can configure port forwarding, edit your homestead.rb file and add following line just below other port forwards:

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config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 9200, host: 62000

You need to reload vagrant box:

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vagrant reload

Now, on your host, try to make curl request:

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curl -X GET localhost:62000

and you should have the following response:

{  "name" : "Penance",  "cluster_name" : "elasticsearch",  "version" : {    "number" : "2.1.0",    "build_hash" : "72cd1f1a3eee09505e036106146dc1949dc5dc87",    "build_timestamp" : "2015-11-18T22:40:03Z",    "build_snapshot" : false,    "lucene_version" : "5.3.1"  },  "tagline" : "You Know, for Search"}

That’s it, now when we have installed Elasticsearch on Laravel Homestead, in one of the next tutorials we will see how to index and search data.

Update (04.12.2015.) :
Tutorial has been updated to show installation process of the latest stable release of Elesticsearch at this time (2.1.0).