Helix Search Documentation | 2025.1

# Manually deploy a JAR file

Perforce recommends that you use the Helix Search installer for Linux or Windows to install Helix Search. See Set up and deploy Helix Search.

This section describes the build and configuration process for the Helix Core Search API and Elasticsearch.

To manually deploy the .jar:

Check the requirements section before you manually deploy the .jar, see Prerequisites .

1. Run the following command:

java -jar build/libs/p4search-<version>.jar

Where <version> is the version of the .jar file.

2. Connect to http://localhost:1601

## Set the configuration file location with the JVM property

If launching the JAR manually or within an application server, add the property:

-Dcom.perforce.search=<location>

Where <location> is the location of the configuration file. For example: /etc/p4search/config.properties

## Related topics

- For details of the Helix Search, Helix Core Server, and Elasticsearch configuration, see Advanced configuration.
- API endpoints
- Data model

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