searchkick: Installing WordNet does not work

I am trying out searchkick.

After making sure the basic Elasticsearch worked properly, I wanted to see what WordNet would do.

I copied the command line instructions that are stated in the guide. The wn_s.pl perl file got stored in /var/lib without problems. But when I then try to reindex my models (that now have the line searchkick wordnet: true), I get the following error:

Reindexing WorldObject...
rake aborted!
Elasticsearch::Transport::Transport::Errors::InternalServerError: [500] {"error":{"root_cause":[{"type":"index_creation_exception","reason":"failed to create index"}],"type":"access_control_exception","reason":"access denied (\"java.io.FilePermission\" \"/var/lib/wn_s.pl\" \"read\")"},"status":500}
/home/qqwy/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.1/gems/elasticsearch-transport-1.0.14/lib/elasticsearch/transport/transport/base.rb:136:in `__raise_transport_error'
/home/qqwy/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.1/gems/elasticsearch-transport-1.0.14/lib/elasticsearch/transport/transport/base.rb:228:in `perform_request'
/home/qqwy/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.1/gems/elasticsearch-transport-1.0.14/lib/elasticsearch/transport/transport/http/faraday.rb:20:in `perform_request'
/home/qqwy/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.1/gems/elasticsearch-transport-1.0.14/lib/elasticsearch/transport/client.rb:119:in `perform_request'
/home/qqwy/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.1/gems/elasticsearch-api-1.0.14/lib/elasticsearch/api/namespace/common.rb:21:in `perform_request'
/home/qqwy/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.1/gems/elasticsearch-api-1.0.14/lib/elasticsearch/api/actions/indices/create.rb:77:in `create'
/home/qqwy/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.1/gems/searchkick-1.0.1/lib/searchkick/index.rb:11:in `create'
/home/qqwy/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.1/gems/searchkick-1.0.1/lib/searchkick/index.rb:134:in `create_index'
/home/qqwy/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.1/gems/searchkick-1.0.1/lib/searchkick/index.rb:155:in `reindex_scope'
/home/qqwy/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.1/gems/searchkick-1.0.1/lib/searchkick/model.rb:51:in `searchkick_reindex'
/home/qqwy/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.1/gems/searchkick-1.0.1/lib/searchkick/tasks.rb:26:in `block (4 levels) in <top (required)>'
/home/qqwy/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.1/gems/searchkick-1.0.1/lib/searchkick/tasks.rb:24:in `each'
/home/qqwy/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.1/gems/searchkick-1.0.1/lib/searchkick/tasks.rb:24:in `block (3 levels) in <top (required)>'
Tasks: TOP => searchkick:reindex:all

I have tried changing the file permissions of the /var/lib/wn_s.pl file so that anyone can read and write to it, but this does not solve the problem.

What is going on?

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Created 9 years ago
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How does this work when Elasticsearch is on a different server from the client/Rails server? I can only get it working as above, ie with an initializer indicating the correct location. On a separate server, it always fails on /var/lib.

mahemoff on Oct 28, 2016

I managed to get it to work.

Find out what is the home dir for elasticsearch, on ubuntu it was /etc/elasticsearch sudo cp wn_s.pl /etc/elasticsearch sudo chown elasticsearch:elasticsearch /etc/elasticsearch/wn_s.pl

Create a new initializer in the config/initializers directory searchkick.rb with the following: Searchkick.wordnet_path = '/etc/elasticsearch/wn_s.pl'

kostyay on Aug 8, 2016