How To Install Elasticsearch Through ZIP Installer?

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Elasticsearch configuration post 7.16.3 version with ZIP installer.

Issue Description: After 7.16.2, ElasticSearch no longer releases Windows MSI installer packages for Elasticsearch. To install Elasticsearch on Windows, use the .zip archive package instead.

Steps to install:

  1. Download the .zip archive for Elasticsearchfrom: https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/elasticsearch/
  2. Unzip it. This will create a version specific folder such as elasticsearch-8.9.0, which we will refer to as %ES_HOME%. In a terminal window, cd to the %ES_HOME% directory, for instance:
  • cd C:\elasticsearch-8.9.0

  1. Run the following command to start Elasticsearch from the command line:
  • .\bin\elasticsearch.bat

  1. After running the command, you will find a screen as below providing the password to login: (Username = "elastic). It is a super default user:

  1. Post this, try accessing - http://localhost:9200
  2. Enter the username (elastic) and password fetched from the CMD below:

  1. The Following screen should appear: