# App search not able to connect to elasticsearch directly over https

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/app-search-not-able-to-connect-to-elasticsearch-directly-over-https/224070>\
**Category:** Elastic Search\
**Tags:** elastic-app-search\
**Created:** [March 18, 2020, 10:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/app-search-not-able-to-connect-to-elasticsearch-directly-over-https/224070 "2020-03-18T10:30:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Jaaved\_Ali\_Khan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jaaved_ali_khan/32/60089_2.png) [@Jaaved\_Ali\_Khan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jaaved_Ali_Khan)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2020, 10:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/app-search-not-able-to-connect-to-elasticsearch-directly-over-https/224070/1 "2020-03-18T10:30:26Z")

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app search and elasticsearch are on same machine;  
I tried with both 7.5.2 and 7.6.1 versions of elasticsearch and app search.

```auto
allow_es_settings_modification: true
elasticsearch.host: "https://kombare-es.com"
elasticsearch.username: "{{ elasticsearch_username }}"
elasticsearch.password: "{{ elasticsearch_password }}"
elasticsearch.ssl.enabled: true
elasticsearch.ssl.verify: false
app_search.external_url: https://localhost:9200
app_search.auth.source: elasticsearch-native

```

when I am using

```auto
elasticsearch.host: "https://kombare-es.com"
elasticsearch.ssl.verify: false

```

App search is starting, but not creating indexes, as I explained here [Not able to index documents using app search(7.6.1) - #13 by Jaaved\_Ali\_Khan](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-index-documents-using-app-search-7-6-1/222893/13).

I am suspecting that may be reverse proxy, nginx, is responsible for this, took hint from here: [Issue with app search (download) release -- not quite a connection issue](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-with-app-search-download-release-not-quite-a-connection-issue/191249).

I want to try connecting app search directly, without nginx, to elasticsearch, however when I am using

```auto
elasticsearch.host: "https://localhost:9200"
# or elasticsearch.host: "https://127.0.0.1:9200"
elasticsearch.ssl.verify: false

```

app search is not starting with error:

```auto
 PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target

```

looks like app search is neglecting the settings `elasticsearch.ssl.verify: false` when I am using `localhost` or `127.0.0.1`

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**Author:** ![JasonStoltz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jasonstoltz/32/49893_2.png) [@JasonStoltz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/JasonStoltz)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2020, 1:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/app-search-not-able-to-connect-to-elasticsearch-directly-over-https/224070/2 "2020-03-19T13:08:20Z")

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Hi @Jaaved_Ali_Khan. It's possible that we have an issue with insecure SSL connections to elasticsearch. We'll look into that.

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**Author:** ![orhantoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c5a1d2/32.png) [@orhantoy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/orhantoy)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2020, 2:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/app-search-not-able-to-connect-to-elasticsearch-directly-over-https/224070/3 "2020-03-27T14:35:15Z")

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Seems like we can close this as the issue and solution is captured in [Not able to index documents using app search(7.6.1)](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-index-documents-using-app-search-7-6-1/222893/19)

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**Author:** ![orhantoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c5a1d2/32.png) [@orhantoy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/orhantoy)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2020, 2:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/app-search-not-able-to-connect-to-elasticsearch-directly-over-https/224070/4 "2020-03-27T14:35:20Z")

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