# 500 error and some troubles when I search

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/500-error-and-some-troubles-when-i-search/172721>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 18, 2019, 7:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/500-error-and-some-troubles-when-i-search/172721 "2019-03-18T07:55:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lin\_Zhu](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/lin_zhu/32/42206_2.png) [@Lin\_Zhu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Lin_Zhu)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2019, 7:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/500-error-and-some-troubles-when-i-search/172721/1 "2019-03-18T07:55:57Z")

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I'm a beginner, and when I use it, I feel confused. like I write 500+ documents into an index, but when I search it, I wish all can be viewed, but just five, I don't know why. And when I use Chinese as input, it has 500 error. I feel frustrated, who can help me?

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/9/6/96c47bd3a97335c7239e82fb4e40ebaddf52239d.png)  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/e/3/e3209ebe7c92bef77d141770d5073b15a0816c14.png)  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/9/f/9fe8525f968e3b108cf20c1cec98d6ae82e01a8a.png)

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2019, 8:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/500-error-and-some-troubles-when-i-search/172721/2 "2019-03-18T08:16:23Z")

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Please don't post images of text as they are hardly readable and not searchable.

Instead paste the text and format it with `</>` icon. Check the preview window.

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**Author:** ![Lin\_Zhu](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/lin_zhu/32/42206_2.png) [@Lin\_Zhu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Lin_Zhu)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2019, 8:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/500-error-and-some-troubles-when-i-search/172721/3 "2019-03-18T08:41:01Z")

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Ok, thanks your reply in time.  
when I use this query: GET /test-yxws-data/QA/\_search?pretty  
its response contains correct ‘total’ number, but the specific documents only have 5.

And when I use: GET /test-yxws-data/QA/\_search?q=垂体瘤  
its response as follow:  
{  
"statusCode": 500,  
"error": "Internal Server Error",  
"message": "An internal server error occurred"  
}

but if I use English to replace Chinese("垂体瘤"), it's right.

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2019, 10:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/500-error-and-some-troubles-when-i-search/172721/4 "2019-03-18T10:45:44Z")

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Sounds like you can not pass directly in the URL those characters.  
But you can pass it in a JSON body like:

```auto
DELETE test
PUT test/_doc/1
{
  "text": "垂体瘤"
}
GET /test/_search
{
  "query": {
    "query_string": {
      "query": "垂体瘤"
    }
  }
}

```

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**Author:** ![Lin\_Zhu](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/lin_zhu/32/42206_2.png) [@Lin\_Zhu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Lin_Zhu)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2019, 9:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/500-error-and-some-troubles-when-i-search/172721/5 "2019-03-19T09:51:54Z")

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It works, thank u so much, but why the url way is wrong, maybe because of unicode?

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2019, 9:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/500-error-and-some-troubles-when-i-search/172721/6 "2019-03-19T09:55:04Z")

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It's more likely a Kibana issue I think.

Because running the following from the command line works well:

```auto
curl localhost:9200/_search?q=垂体瘤

```

May be open an issue in Kibana repository?

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**Author:** ![Lin\_Zhu](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/lin_zhu/32/42206_2.png) [@Lin\_Zhu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Lin_Zhu)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2019, 11:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/500-error-and-some-troubles-when-i-search/172721/7 "2019-03-19T11:14:03Z")

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maybe, anyway, thank you! BTW, forum is really a good platform:)

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2019, 11:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/500-error-and-some-troubles-when-i-search/172721/8 "2019-04-16T11:14:09Z")

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