ElasticSearch newbie - creating the first index - elasticsearch

Question

Have a client that thinks this will be awesome to use to crawl volumes of 10MB log files. I'd agree having read up on it, but seem stuck on creating my first index. So far:
♦ Installed ElasticSearch 1.2.1 on Windows 8, and Curl 7.3.7 (HTTP for SSL, here: paehl.com/open_source/?CURL_7.37.0)
♦ Successful in a response from ES (status 200, hurrah, on localhost, 127.0.0.1 or my machine's IP all good with a 200 status)
♦ When I try to create an index, however, no love. Been trying to follow steps from both the Joel Abrahamsson's ElasticSearch 101 (joelabrahamsson.com/elasticsearch-101/) and Park's "ES Cookbook". Errors range, but most recently and shortest are on par with these:
C:\>curl -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/blog/user/dilbert' -d '{ "name" : "Dilbert Brown" }'
curl: (1) Protocol 'http not supported or disabled in libcurl
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: name
curl: (7) Failed to connect to port 80: Connection refused
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: Dilbert Brown
curl: (3) [globbing] unmatched close brace/bracket in column 1
Earlier messages were far more wordy:
C:\>curl -XPUT "http://localhost:9200/test1/test/1" -d' { "title" : "Godfather", "director" : "Coppola", "year" : 1972 }'
{"error":"MapperParsingException[failed to parse]; nested: ElasticsearchParseException[Failed to derive xcontent from (offset=0, length=1): [39]]; ","status":400}curl: (3) [globbing] unmatched brace in column 1
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: title
curl: (7) Failed to connect to port 80: Connection refused
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: Godfather,
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: director
curl: (7) Failed to connect to port 80: Connection refused
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: Coppola,
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: year
curl: (7) Failed to connect to port 80: Connection refused
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: 1972
curl: (3) [globbing] unmatched close brace/bracket in column 1
It feels like I'm overlooking something basic, but as a newbie to ES, curl and JSON, I'm puzzled -- and at least from my seat, the brace/brackets appear balanced.Suggestions?

Answer 1

It's a problem with the cmd of Windows.
You can fix it by changing:
curl -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/blog/user/dilbert' -d '{ "name" : "Dilbert Brown" }'
to:
curl -XPUT "http://localhost:9200/blog/user/dilbert" -d "{ """name""" : """Dilbert Brown""" }"
Update: (for windows 64 bit)
curl -XPUT "http://localhost:9200/blog/user/dilbert" -d "{ \"name\" : \"Dilbert Brown\" }"

Answer 2

It seems windows does not like the single quote thing around the url. I cannot test it for you but try it with double quotes around the url.
I got this info from the following blogpost:
http://bartwullems.blogspot.nl/2013/08/curl-1-protocol-not-supported-or.html

Answer 3

Create a local file with the json request message as indicated in the elasticsearch tutorial, go to this directory and execute the curl command, referencing this file:
curl -XPUT http://localhost:9200/shakespeare --data-binary "#_01_specify_schema.json"
where _01_specify_schema.json is a file containig:
{
"mappings" : {
"_default_" : {
"properties" : {
"speaker" : {"type": "string", "index" : "not_analyzed" },
"play_name" : {"type": "string", "index" : "not_analyzed" },
"line_id" : { "type" : "integer" },
"speech_number" : { "type" : "integer" }
}}}}
Take care to add the "#" symbol before the name of the referenced file