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 root root@homestead:~# sudo -s # Update Aptitude root@homestead:~# apt-get update # Install Java root@homestead:~# apt-get install openjdk-7-jre-headless -y # Download and install Elasticsearch Public Signing Key root@homestead:~# wget -qO - https://packages.elastic.co/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch | sudo apt-key add - # Add repository root@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 Aptitude root@homestead:~# apt-get update # Install Elasticsearch root@homestead:~# apt-get install elasticsearch # Set Elasticsearch to run on startup root@homestead:~# update-rc.d elasticsearch defaults 95 10 # Start Elasticsearch server root@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:
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{ "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).
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