# Cannot connect to ES on localhost:9200 on Windows 2008 R2 Server

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-connect-to-es-on-localhost-9200-on-windows-2008-r2-server/162470>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 31, 2018, 5:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-connect-to-es-on-localhost-9200-on-windows-2008-r2-server/162470 "2018-12-31T05:15:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![sid\_nikhil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@sid\_nikhil](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sid_nikhil)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2018, 3:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-connect-to-es-on-localhost-9200-on-windows-2008-r2-server/162470/5 "2018-12-31T15:17:47Z")

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It cannot connect when I point to localhost :9200  
Also I don't understand why kibana appears as shown above(not loading fully ) when I point to localhost:5601

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