Offline Plugin install using absolute file path on Windows should support three protocol slashes

[djschny]

Kibana version: 4.5.0

OS version: Windows 7 and Windows 10

Description of the problem including expected versus actual behavior:
The plugin install using a URL with absolute file path on Windows requires use of two slashes in the protocol file://C:\ as opposed to three file:///C:\.

For example the following does not work but should based upon how Elasticsearch behaves and based upon the spec for Windows absolute URLS - https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ie/2006/12/06/file-uris-in-windows/

bin\kibana.bat plugin --install marvel --url file:///C:\elastic\marvel-2.3.2.tar.gz

However the following does work (2 slashes):
bin\kibana.bat plugin --install marvel --url file://C:\elastic\marvel-2.3.2.tar.gz

Notice discussion on this from Elasticsearch end as well - elastic/elasticsearch#18141

[djschny]

I noticed with the latest Kibana 4.6.1 that kibana no longer accepts the two slash URL format and now requires the three slashes. Was this actually fixed and part of 4.5.1?

I also didn't notice it in the release notes either - https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/releasenotes.html

Can someone verify whether this was supposed to be included and this issue closed/updated?

[LeeDr]

Changed from Enhancement to Bug since our docs show the standard 3 slash install and Linux works with the 3 slashes. Windows users will have a hard time figuring out how to do it.

https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/current/installing-xpack.html

[djschny]

Changed from Enhancement to Bug since our docs show the standard 3 slash install and Linux works with the 3 slashes.

I just want to make sure this doesn't change into docs change for the interim and then this gets closed and we miss actually updating Kibana to be consistent with itself and across the stack. If that makes sense?

[epixa]

This is still the case in 5.2.0, for the record, so it's not a 4.x thing only.

[nikhil-ahir-dox]

This issue still exists. If you try installing a local plugin with 3 slashes it fails, but with 2 slashes it is giving a warning but the installation is successful.

Windows 10
Kibana 5.4.0
node 6.10.2

It seems statSync is failing with 3 slashes.

[nikhil-ahir-dox]

Hi @jbudz , find below the command and it's output.

With 3 slashes (Still does not work) :-

$ bin/kibana-plugin install file:///c/projects/newKibana/hello/build/hello-1.0.0.zip
Attempting to transfer from file:///c/projects/newKibana/hello/build/hello-1.0.0.zip
Error: ENOTFOUND
Attempting to transfer from https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/kibana-plugins/file:///c/projects/newKibana/hello/build/hello-1.0.0.zip/file:///c/projects/newKibana/hello/build/hello-1.0.0.zip-5.4.0.zip
Plugin installation was unsuccessful due to error "No valid url specified."

With 2 slashes (though it gives deprecation warning it works) :-

$ bin/kibana-plugin install file://c/projects/newKibana/hello/build/hello-1.0.0.zip
Attempting to transfer from file://c/projects/newKibana/hello/build/hello-1.0.0.zip
Install paths with file:// are deprecated, use file:/// instead
Transferring 7243 bytes....................
Transfer complete
Retrieving metadata from plugin archive
Extracting plugin archive
Extraction complete
Optimizing and caching browser bundles...
Plugin installation complete

You may see the only difference between the commands is the number of slashes. Nothing else was changed to make the install work.

[LeeDr]

This works for me on Windows on the latest 6.0.0-beta1 build and on 5.5 and 5.6
(note that I'm calling the batch file from a git bash shell on Windows);

/c/windowsInstalls/6.0.0-beta1/kibana/bin/kibana-plugin.bat install file:///C:/vagrant/qa/x-pack-6.0.0-beta1.zip

@nikhil-ahir-dox Can you try it with the : for the drive letter?

FYI, I use cygpath -m to get that "mixed" format of having the Windows : along with forward slashes.

[jbudz]

The windows regex is matching on drive:/ so it isn't going to match in this case. Is C your drive @nikhil-ahir-dox? Does `file:///c:/projects/newKibana/hello/build/hello-1.0.0.zip work?

[nikhil-ahir-dox]

Yes @jbudz, it only works with three slashes in my case. But I am using using an older version 5.4.0, and it might still have the issue. Will update the version and see how it behaves. Thanks for your replies :)

[khelmrab]

Hello @nikhil-ahir-dox,
Kibana 5.4.0 i build run successful for you ?
i have this errors
WARNING in ./build/kibana/src/ui/public/styles/truncate.less
Module build failed: ModuleBuildError: Module build failed: Error: EINVAL: invalid argument, uv_interface_addresses

have you this error in the past ?
thank's

[mohitmehral]

In mine case it installed well however i could not able to find on kibana UI after restarting the Kibana server. Please suggest how to check this visualization

[root@tv bin]# ./kibana-plugin install file:///tmp/build/status_light_visualization-7.3.2.zip
Kibana should not be run as root. Use --allow-root to continue.
[root@tv bin]# ./kibana-plugin --allow-root install file:///tmp/build/status_light_visualization-7.3.2.zip
Found previous install attempt. Deleting...
Attempting to transfer from file:///tmp/build/status_light_visualization-7.3.2.zip
Transferring 9452 bytes....................
Transfer complete
Retrieving metadata from plugin archive
Extracting plugin archive
Extraction complete

[tylersmalley]

Closing, this was resolved in 7.0