# Can't connect to elasticsearch

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-connect-to-elasticsearch/64737>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [November 2, 2016, 4:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-connect-to-elasticsearch/64737 "2016-11-02T16:02:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![kmroz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kmroz/32/62741_2.png) [@kmroz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kmroz)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2016, 4:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-connect-to-elasticsearch/64737/1 "2016-11-02T16:02:53Z")

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I keep getting this error when accessing the Kibana UI.

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/5/5ceea693734694ad261f6442879bece822c35d43.png)

Any idea what needs to change inside each yml. I am installing kibana 5.0.

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**Author:** ![kmroz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kmroz/32/62741_2.png) [@kmroz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kmroz)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2016, 4:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-connect-to-elasticsearch/64737/2 "2016-11-02T16:15:35Z")

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close this. Figured the problem out.

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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:** [November 3, 2016, 5:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-connect-to-elasticsearch/64737/3 "2016-11-03T05:39:01Z")

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What was the problem?

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**Author:** ![kmroz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kmroz/32/62741_2.png) [@kmroz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kmroz)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2016, 7:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-connect-to-elasticsearch/64737/4 "2016-11-03T19:17:55Z")

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Misconfigured ES.yml.

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 1:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-connect-to-elasticsearch/64737/5 "2017-07-06T13:34:42Z")

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