Topic on Extension talk:CirrusSearch

I tried setting up a local development instance using a default Docker installation of Elastic. This creates a username "elastic" and a generated password for authentication, however I can't find anything about specifying authentication in search host configuration for CirrusSearch, and the updater script won't connect with anything I've devised yet.

It doesn't seem to work to specify "elastic:<password>@localhost:9200" as the host:

Elastica\Exception\Connection\HttpException from line 186 of /var/www/html/w/extensions/Elastica/vendor/ruflin/elastica/src/Transport/Http.php: Malformed URL

nor "elastic:<password>@localhost" with default port assumed:

Elastica\Exception\Connection\HttpException from line 186 of /var/www/html/w/extensions/Elastica/vendor/ruflin/elastica/src/Transport/Http.php: Couldn't connect to host, Elasticsearch down?

Prefacing with 'http:' or 'https:' makes no difference.

Any ideas? I'm hoping to get this running so I can do some fixes on Extension:MediaSearch on my local development site. Thanks!

Generally i would suggest using docker-registry.wikimedia.org/repos/search-platform/cirrussearch-elasticsearch-image:v7.10.2-5 as it contains the extra plugins we use. This is based off the elasticsearch-oss image. Alternatively you can directly use https://www.docker.elastic.co/r/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-oss image. This image doesn't contain authentication, because the auth isn't part of the OSS offering.

I haven't tested it, but you should be able to provide authentication as part of the connection configuration. For example (untested):

    $wgCirrusSearchServers = [
        [
            'host' => 'localhost',
            'port' => '9200',
            'username' => '...',
            'password' => '...',
        ]
    ];

The above dictionary worked for me. (configuring $wgCirrusSearchClusters['default'])