Kong refuses to recognise custom plugin as enabled - nginx

Question

I was developing a Custom plugin for Kong.
To start off I followed guidelines listed in this tutorial
http://streamdata.io/blog/developing-an-helloworld-kong-plugin/
Few changes that I made along the way were changing dependency in the rockspec file for "lrexlib-pcre" from version 2.8.0-1 to 2.7.2-1 due to compilation problems that I faced with 2.8.0-1 version.
Please note that I am working in the next branch. The master branch has version 2.7.2-1 listed.
The tutorial assumes Kong version 0.4.2-1 while I am working with Kong version 0.5.2-1.
I have listed my plugin in kong.yml. Last listed is helloworld plugin
plugins_available:
- ssl
- jwt
- acl
- cors
- oauth2
- tcp-log
- udp-log
- file-log
- http-log
- key-auth
- hmac-auth
- basic-auth
- ip-restriction
- mashape-analytics
- request-transformer
- response-transformer
- request-size-limiting
- rate-limiting
- response-ratelimiting
- helloworld
I have listed the helloworld files in rockspec file at the last.
["kong.plugins.helloworld.handler"] =
"kong/plugins/helloworld/handler.lua",
["kong.plugins.helloworld.access"] = "kong/plugins/helloworld/access.lua",
["kong.plugins.helloworld.schema"] = "kong/plugins/helloworld/schema.lua"
Compilation is successful but kong refuses to list helloworld plugin as available in the node. All other builtin plugins are shown as available in the server
I tried enabling the plugin anyway with mock api. It doesn't work as expected and trying to restart kong lists error
nginx: [error] [lua] init_by_lua:5: Startup error:
/usr/local/share/lua/5.1/kong.lua:82: You are using a plugin that has
not been enabled in the configuration: helloworld [INFO] dnsmasq
stopped [ERR] Could not start Kong
I know there were some breaking changes introduced in Kong version 0.5. I followed the changelog, but I found nothing that would help.
Am i missing a setting a configuration somewhere?
Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Try the following in your kong.yml:
custom_plugins:
- helloworld

Answer 2

I fixed this issue by adding things in custom_plugins and lua_package_path.
Here are the steps to enable and use custom plugin in kong Env.
1 - Add custom plugin name in --- custom_plugins = hello-world
2 - Install hello-world plugin by using following steps ---
If you have source code of your plugin then move into it and execute the command --- "luarocks make"
it will install your plugin.
now you have to execute a command "make install-dev" make sure your plugin have makefile like as --
Once you execute this command "make install-dev". it will create lua file at a location something like that -
/your-plugin-path/lua_modules/share/lua/5.1/kong/plugins/your-plugin-name/?.lua
just copy this path and add it into the kong configuration file in lua_package_path
Something like that --
lua_package_path=/your-plugin-path/lua_modules/share/lua/5.1/kong/plugins/your-plugin-name/?.lua
Now you done your job.
Just start kong -- kong start --vv
You will see that the plugin loaded into kong plugin env.
#Enjoy