Kibana Installation

CentOS6 again.

Download the latest version of kibana from http://www.elasticsearch.org/overview/kibana/installation/
cd /var/www/

wget http://www.elasticsearch.org/overview/kibana/installation/

tar zxvf kibana*

rm kibana*.gz

mv kibana* kibana3

Create a kibana configuration file for Apache.

<VirtualHost YOURIP:80>
  ServerName FQDN

  DocumentRoot /var/www/kibana3
  <Directory /var/www/kibana3>
    Allow from all
    Options -Multiviews
  </Directory>

  LogLevel debug
  ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/error_log
  CustomLog /var/log/httpd/access_log combined

  # Set global proxy timeouts
  <Proxy http://127.0.0.1:9200>
    ProxySet connectiontimeout=5 timeout=90
  </Proxy>

  # Proxy for _aliases and .*/_search
  <LocationMatch “^/(_nodes|_aliases|.*/_aliases|_search|.*/_search|_mapping|.*/_mapping)$”>
    ProxyPassMatch http://127.0.0.1:9200/$1
    ProxyPassReverse http://127.0.0.1:9200/$1
  </LocationMatch>

  # Proxy for kibana-int/{dashboard,temp} stuff (if you don’t want auth on /, then you will want these to be protected)
  <LocationMatch “^/(kibana-int/dashboard/|kibana-int/temp)(.*)$”>
    ProxyPassMatch http://127.0.0.1:9200/$1$2
    ProxyPassReverse http://127.0.0.1:9200/$1$2
  </LocationMatch>

  <Location />
    AuthType Basic
    AuthBasicProvider file
    AuthName “Restricted”
    AuthUserFile /etc/httpd/conf.d/kibana-htpasswd
    Require valid-user
  </Location>
</VirtualHost>

Create kibana users for however many users you need.
cd /etc/httpd/conf.d/

htpasswd kibana-htpasswd yourusername

Enter password twice.
Restart apache
service httpd restart

Visit http://IPADDRESS/index.html#/dashboard/file/default.json