# Connection problem with shield plug-in for kibana **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Tags:** elastic-stack-security\ **Created:** [April 19, 2016, 11:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/connection-problem-with-shield-plug-in-for-kibana/47778 "2016-04-19T11:04:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![maximeb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@maximeb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/maximeb)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2016, 11:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/connection-problem-with-shield-plug-in-for-kibana/47778/1 "2016-04-19T11:04:52Z")
Hello, I have a strange problem, in fact I have configured shield with Kibana and after creating many users I can not connect with any of these users. ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/6/64432d5daf6277421571838eb7d4a62f7a8de20a.png) Thank you for your help. Max ---
**Author:** ![jaymode](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jaymode/32/50103_2.png) [@jaymode](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jaymode)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2016, 12:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/connection-problem-with-shield-plug-in-for-kibana/47778/2 "2016-04-19T12:06:18Z")
Hi Max, Do the users work when accessing elasticsearch directly? ---
**Author:** ![maximeb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@maximeb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/maximeb)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2016, 12:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/connection-problem-with-shield-plug-in-for-kibana/47778/3 "2016-04-19T12:10:30Z")
Yes it works.. Thanks for your reply ---
**Author:** ![jaymode](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jaymode/32/50103_2.png) [@jaymode](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jaymode)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2016, 12:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/connection-problem-with-shield-plug-in-for-kibana/47778/4 "2016-04-19T12:33:52Z")
This is odd. What versions of elasticsearch, kibana and shield are you using? Do you see any messages in your kibana log file? ---
**Author:** ![maximeb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@maximeb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/maximeb)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2016, 12:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/connection-problem-with-shield-plug-in-for-kibana/47778/5 "2016-04-19T12:40:20Z")
My versions are: kibana 4.5 shield 2.3.1 elasticseach 2.3.1 I see no logs in kibana... ---
**Author:** ![jaymode](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jaymode/32/50103_2.png) [@jaymode](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jaymode)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2016, 12:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/connection-problem-with-shield-plug-in-for-kibana/47778/6 "2016-04-19T12:47:22Z")
Do you have cors enabled in your elasticsearch.yml file? This may be the issue [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/6719#issuecomment-204448145](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/6719#issuecomment-204448145) ---
**Author:** ![maximeb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@maximeb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/maximeb)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2016, 12:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/connection-problem-with-shield-plug-in-for-kibana/47778/7 "2016-04-19T12:54:26Z")
I have nothing in my elasticsearch.yml file. No line corresponds to it. ---
**Author:** ![maximeb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@maximeb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/maximeb)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2016, 1:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/connection-problem-with-shield-plug-in-for-kibana/47778/8 "2016-04-19T13:03:19Z")
This is a strange log from elasticsearch: [2016-04-19 14:58:17,275][WARN][shield.transport.netty] [Ncer14eld1A] Caught exception while handling client http traffic, closing connection [id: 0xe1a7ccb2, /x.x.x.xx:46554 =\> /x.x.x.xx:9200] java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: empty text at org.jboss.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpVersion.(HttpVersion.java:89) at org.jboss.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpVersion.valueOf(HttpVersion.java:62) at org.jboss.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpRequestDecoder.createMessage(HttpRequestDecoder.java:75) at org.jboss.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpMessageDecoder.decode(HttpMessageDecoder.java:191) at org.jboss.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpMessageDecoder.decode(HttpMessageDecoder.java:102) at org.jboss.netty.handler.codec.replay.ReplayingDecoder.callDecode(ReplayingDecoder.java:500) at org.jboss.netty.handler.codec.replay.ReplayingDecoder.messageReceived(ReplayingDecoder.java:435) at org.jboss.netty.channel.SimpleChannelUpstreamHandler.handleUpstream(SimpleChannelUpstreamHandler.java:70) at org.jboss.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline.sendUpstream(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:564) at org.jboss.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline$DefaultChannelHandlerContext.sendUpstream(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:791) at org.elasticsearch.common.netty.OpenChannelsHandler.handleUpstream(OpenChannelsHandler.java:75) at org.jboss.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline.sendUpstream(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:564) at org.jboss.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline$DefaultChannelHandlerContext.sendUpstream(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:791) at org.jboss.netty.handler.ipfilter.IpFilteringHandlerImpl.handleUpstream(IpFilteringHandlerImpl.java:154) at org.jboss.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline.sendUpstream(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:564) at org.jboss.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline.sendUpstream(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:559) at org.jboss.netty.channel.Channels.fireMessageReceived(Channels.java:268) at org.jboss.netty.channel.Channels.fireMessageReceived(Channels.java:255) at org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioWorker.read(NioWorker.java:88) at org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.nio.AbstractNioWorker.process(AbstractNioWorker.java:108) at org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.nio.AbstractNioSelector.run(AbstractNioSelector.java:337) at org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.nio.AbstractNioWorker.run(AbstractNioWorker.java:89) at org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioWorker.run(NioWorker.java:178) at org.jboss.netty.util.ThreadRenamingRunnable.run(ThreadRenamingRunnable.java:108) at org.jboss.netty.util.internal.DeadLockProofWorker$1.run(DeadLockProofWorker.java:42) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) ---
**Author:** ![jaymode](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jaymode/32/50103_2.png) [@jaymode](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jaymode)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2016, 1:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/connection-problem-with-shield-plug-in-for-kibana/47778/9 "2016-04-19T13:41:50Z")
Can you share your kibana configuration? And to confirm, you have made no changes to the elasticsearch configuration? ---
**Author:** ![maximeb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@maximeb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/maximeb)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2016, 2:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/connection-problem-with-shield-plug-in-for-kibana/47778/10 "2016-04-19T14:03:29Z")
kibana configuration: ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/6/6b6bdd29413b253c84cce3502b6c84fec6a59ac9.png) ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/6/6ce30e4a8ba5d78f27f7c2360be68afe408cde42.png) elasticsearch configuration: ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/8/8eca5249111b10ff70caf26c57b7f56987ec1b38.png) ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/c/c30a2988803106c404602f2a2253ddbc60a37d01.png) ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/f/fbf52ec1dd807686c6879443c73013aa1017d7bd.png) ---
**Author:** ![jaymode](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jaymode/32/50103_2.png) [@jaymode](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jaymode)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2016, 2:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/connection-problem-with-shield-plug-in-for-kibana/47778/11 "2016-04-19T14:19:57Z")
you are using a `https` URL to connect to elasticsearch in your `kibana.yml` file but do not have SSL enabled on elasticsearch. Try changing `https` to `http` ---
**Author:** ![maximeb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@maximeb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/maximeb)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2016, 2:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/connection-problem-with-shield-plug-in-for-kibana/47778/12 "2016-04-19T14:40:26Z")
it works ! thanks so much ---
**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, 1:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/connection-problem-with-shield-plug-in-for-kibana/47778/13 "2017-07-06T13:45:16Z")