# Cant get to elastic when localhost replaced with server name
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-get-to-elastic-when-localhost-replaced-with-server-name/100054
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [September 11, 2017, 12:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-get-to-elastic-when-localhost-replaced-with-server-name/100054 "2017-09-11T12:56:13Z")
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### Author:  [@bilpor](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bilpor)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2017, 12:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-get-to-elastic-when-localhost-replaced-with-server-name/100054/1 "2017-09-11T12:56:13Z")
HI All,
I have elastic search 5.5.1 installed with xpack. I've created an index and used fscrawler to populate it. Via Postman, I perform a GET on a url in the form `localhost:9200/myindex/_search?q="William"` and it all works fine. If I change localhost to the ip 127.0.0.1 it still works. If I change it to the servername then postman comes back with could not get any response. All of this from the same server that everything has been installed on.
I need to get it to work using the server name since I obviously want to make the call from other machines. What do I need to do to make it recognize the server name?
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### Author:  [@colings86](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/colings86)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2017, 1:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-get-to-elastic-when-localhost-replaced-with-server-name/100054/2 "2017-09-11T13:12:18Z")
By default the server will only bind to localhost addresses. If you want to bind to an external interface you will need to set either `http.host` or `http.bind_host` to your external interfaces IP address. See the following for more information on these settings: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/5.5/modules-http.html#\_settings\_2](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/5.5/modules-http.html#_settings_2)
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2017, 1:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-get-to-elastic-when-localhost-replaced-with-server-name/100054/3 "2017-10-09T13:12:26Z")
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