Connection refused for logstash configuration file

input {
file {
path => "H:\logstash\zipped_folders\logstash-2.3.1\bin\first-pipeline-data"
start_position => beginning #1
#ignore_older => 0
}
}

filter {
grok { # Grok looks for patterns in incoming log data
match => {"message" => "%{COMBINEDAPACHELOG}"}
}

geoip { # geoip plugin looks up IP addr, derive geo location and adds to logs
	source => "clientip"
}

}

output {
elasticsearch{}
stdout{}
}
#1 default behavious of file input plugin is to monitor a file for new info
#2 default behaviour of file input plugin is to ignore files whose last modification greater than 86400s

path => H:\logstash\zipped_folders\logstash-2.3.1\bin\first-pipeline.conf

this is the configuration file I used for logstash. when I run the command 'logstash -f firstpipeline.conf' I get the error connection refused: connect {:class=>"Manticore::SocketException", :level:error}

Is ES running, can you curl locahost:9200 and get a response?