Getting ready

You need an installed ElasticSearch server.

How to do it...

We assume that your plugin is named awesome and it's packed in a file called awesome.zip.

The steps required to execute a manually installed plugin are:

How it works...

Every ElasticSearch plugin is contained in a directory (usually named as the plugin name).

If the plugin is a site one, the plugin should contain a directory called _site, which contains the static files that must be served by the server. If the plugin is a binary one, the plugin directory should be filled with one or more jar files.

When ElasticSearch starts, it scans the plugins directory and loads them. If a plugin is corrupted or broken, the server doesn't start.