Question

Can you please give step by step procedures to start an Elasticsearch server?

Answer 1

The server can be started from the command line.

Following steps explain the process:

1. Click on the Windows Start icon present at the bottom-left part of the desktop screen.
2. Type command or cmd in the Windows Start menu and press Enter to open a command prompt.
3. Change the directory up to the bin folder of the Elasticsearch folder that got created after it has been installed.
4. Type /Elasticsearch.bat and press Enter to start the Elasticsearch server.
5. This will start Elasticsearch on command prompt in the background. Further open browser and enter http://localhost:9200 and press enter. This should display the Elasticsearch cluster name and other meta value related to its database.