Setting up elasticsearch with Haystack

Question

I used to be using Whoosh as a search backend but now I'm switching to elasticsearch and trying to get things working.

When trying to rebuild the index I get the error:

requests.exceptions.ConnectionError: HTTPConnectionPool(host='localhost', port=8000): Max retries exceeded with url: /_bulk?op_type=create (Caused by <class 'socket.error'>: [Errno 61] Connection refused)

The following is in my settings.py:

HAYSTACK_CONNECTIONS = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'haystack.backends.elasticsearch_backend.ElasticsearchSearchEngine',
        'URL': 'http://localhost:8000/',
        'INDEX_NAME': 'haystack',
    },
}

My question is, what is URL used for and what do I put here? I'm running things locally for development and I'm deployed on Heroku.

the default port for ES is 9200. so unless you reconfigured it to 8000, just switch your port number. — Al W
– Al W, Commented Mar 28, 2013 at 23:35

toto_tico · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-31 23:38:43Z

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The port should be 9200.

HAYSTACK_CONNECTIONS = {
'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'haystack.backends.elasticsearch_backend.ElasticsearchSearchEngine',
        'URL': 'http://127.0.0.1:9200/',
        'INDEX_NAME': 'haystack',
    },
}

Also, you have to be sure that you are using the development version (2.0) of haystack.

Edit:

You probably want to make sure first that ElasticSearch is running by executing the following command:

curl -XGET 'http://127.0.0.1:9200/my_index/_mapping?pretty=1'

edited Dec 31, 2013 at 23:38

answered Mar 28, 2013 at 23:28

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picomon Over a year ago

I followed your answer, yet am still getting the error above.

toto_tico Over a year ago

If you are getting exactly the same error requests.exceptions.ConnectionError: HTTPConnectionPool(host='localhost', port=8000), then you placed the code in the wrong place (it should be in the settings of the project and depending which server you are using, you should restart it). If the error says requests.exceptions.ConnectionError: HTTPConnectionPool(host='localhost', port:9200), then either ElasticSearch is not running on your machine or, less probable, it is working on a different port.

toto_tico Over a year ago

You can test that ElasticSearch is running by executing the following command in the terminal: curl -XGET 'http://127.0.0.1:9200/my_index/_mapping?pretty=1'

picomon Over a year ago

I'm getting curl: (7) couldn't connect to host

toto_tico Over a year ago

You can change the port in elasticsearch.yml with the parameter http.port: 9199 (or any you think is free, see the file). In ubuntu, you should be able to find it here /etc/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.yml. Restart elasticsearch after changing the configuration file.

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