pleio/elasticsearch

An Elasticsearch integration for Elgg.

An Elasticsearch integration for Elgg

This plugin adds full-text search capabilities to your Elgg installation, allowing you to search through entities and annotations (in ELGG 1.8)., _(*1)

Installation and configuration

1. Install the plugin (and it's dependencies) by running:, _(*2)

   composer require pleio/elasticsearch

2. Add the following configuration to engine/settings.php:, _(*3)

   $CONFIG->elasticsearch = array(
       'hosts' => array(
           '127.0.0.1'
       )
   );
   
   $CONFIG->elasticsearch_index = 'pleio-dev';

3. Activate the plugin through the Elgg admin panel., _(*4)

4. Create the index and mappings in Elasticsearch by running:, _(*5)

   php console.php es:index:reset

This command will (re-)create the index. All existing content attached to the Elasticsearch will be deleted. From now on all entity CRUD actions will automatically be synced with Elasticsearch., _(*6)

Bulk synchronisation

The tool comes with a tool to synchronize all existing content with Elasticsearch. Run, _(*7)

php console.php es:sync:all

to start a bulk synchronisation., _(*8)

File contents indexing

It is also possible to use this tool in conjunction with PleioAsyncTaskHandler and tika-server to search through ElggFile contents., _(*9)

1. Download and run the tika-server:, _(*10)

   wget http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/tika/tika-server-1.15.jar
   java -jar tika-server-1.15.jar

2. Add the following configuration to engine/settings.php:, _(*11)

   $CONFIG->tika_server = ["localhost", 9998];

3. Make sure the PleioAsyncTaskHandler is running by:, _(*12)

   php console.php async:taskhandler

Now when files are added or updated, the contents are indexed automatically., _(*13)