[DOCS] Plugin Installation for Windows
This shows an example of how to install a plugin on Windows, which is not as obvious at I would have expected.
@@ -64,20 +64,40 @@ sudo bin/elasticsearch-plugin install [url] <1>
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<1> must be a valid URL, the plugin name is determined from its descriptor.
-For instance, to install a plugin from your local file system, you could run:
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+Unix::
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+To install a plugin from your local file system at `/path/to/plugin.zip`, you could run:
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[source,shell]
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sudo bin/elasticsearch-plugin install file:///path/to/plugin.zip
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+Windows::
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+To install a plugin from your local file system at `C:\path\to\plugin.zip`, you could run:
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+[source,shell]
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+bin\elasticsearch-plugin install file:///C:/path/to/plugin.zip
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+NOTE: Any path that contains spaces must be wrapped in quotes!
+
+HTTP::
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+[source,shell]
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+sudo bin/elasticsearch-plugin install http://some.domain/path/to/plugin.zip
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The plugin script will refuse to talk to an HTTPS URL with an untrusted
certificate. To use a self-signed HTTPS cert, you will need to add the CA cert
to a local Java truststore and pass the location to the script as follows:
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[source,shell]
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-sudo ES_JAVA_OPTS="-Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore=/path/to/trustStore.jks" bin/elasticsearch-plugin install https://....
+sudo ES_JAVA_OPTS="-Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore=/path/to/trustStore.jks" bin/elasticsearch-plugin install https://host/plugin.zip
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