# Cannot connect to ES on localhost

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-connect-to-es-on-localhost/162588>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 2, 2019, 4:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-connect-to-es-on-localhost/162588 "2019-01-02T04:18:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2019, 4:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-connect-to-es-on-localhost/162588/2 "2019-01-02T04:31:06Z")

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Please don't post your question in multiple categories, it makes it harder to assist you.

> [@Cannot connect to ES on localhost:9200 on Windows 2008 R2 Server](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-connect-to-es-on-localhost-9200/162470/5):
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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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