Elasticsearch won't start on centos, permission denied - elasticsearch

Question

I installed elasticsearch this way :
retrieved the tar.gz on windows, extracted it and put it on a zip
uploaded the zip over ssh on a server and use 'unzip file' to unzip it.
I modified the elasticsearch file so that it has this line
export JAVA_HOME = "/home/xxx/project1/jdk1.8.0_73_linux64"
just below
#!/bin/sh
now when I go into /home/xxx/project1/elasticsearch/bin and type
./elasticsearch
I get
-bash: ./elasticsearch: Permission denied
What could I do to get more information about the problem?
I'm logged as user xxx
Thanks.

Answer 1

The problem is, that you've installed elastic being logged in as root. Now you're surely logged in as not root. If you're working as a user with root privileges, you potentially could start elastic, but it tells you, you can't run in as root. The owner of your elastic folder is root (he installed it). So, all you need to do is to change the owner of a folder to your xxx-user (to let him run elastic). You can easily do it executing a command:
chown -R new_owner path
for example, user is xxx and path is /opt/elasticsearch-2.3.5:
chown -R xxx /opt/elasticsearch-2.3.5
"-R" parameter ensures, that not only folder, but all files inside will recursively change the owner you provide.

Answer 2

Try to install using the package Yum Install for elasticsearch.
Else try: Its sounds like the user permission to access the files.
Ensure that you have downloaded the linux distribution (Optional) Since you have mentioned its tar.gz.
If you have extracted using sudo command then you need to change the user permission for elasticsearch folder to logged in user OR start the elasticsearch using sudo command
sudo ./elasticsearch -d
Check the execution permission if not please do the same by following command
sudo chmod +x /home/xxx/project1/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch.sh
Try this things if not please create a chat window and invite me.

Answer 3

Looking ahead I will immediately say that the ES app doesn't work using the sudo
In my case with ES 6.8.1 version on ubuntu i solved the problem using this steps:
Add the current user(or any other) to ES group:
sudo adduser <yourName> elasticsearch
Add possibility to execute ES:
sudo chmod +x /usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch
Then i changed owner of some paths**, in my case these were:
sudo chown -R <yourName>:elasticsearch /etc/default/elasticsearch
sudo chown -R <yourName>:elasticsearch /etc/elasticsearch
sudo chown -R <yourName>:elasticsearch /var/log/elasticsearch
**I started the application several times and then looked where I had no permission
Then i started ./usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch and saw the long-awaited JSON on port 9200 :)
Hope this will help someone.