# Determining the url for reading json files **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [April 19, 2016, 12:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/determining-the-url-for-reading-json-files/47723 "2016-04-19T00:00:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DTownSMR](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dtownsmr/32/9120_2.png) [@DTownSMR](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DTownSMR)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2016, 12:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/determining-the-url-for-reading-json-files/47723/1 "2016-04-19T00:00:45Z")
I'm looking to reading a json file for i18n support but unsure what the base path should be to get to the kibana project. Thought it would be something like: [https://localhost:5601/aqo/app/kibana/src/plugins/kibana/public/settings/sections/indices/i18n/en.json](https://localhost:5601/aqo/app/kibana/src/plugins/kibana/public/settings/sections/indices/i18n/en.json) but that just gives me a 404. ---
**Author:** ![Joe\_Fleming](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/joe_fleming/32/3561_2.png) [@Joe\_Fleming](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Joe_Fleming)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 5:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/determining-the-url-for-reading-json-files/47723/2 "2016-04-20T17:55:30Z")
Sounds like you're trying to serve up a status file from Kibana, is that right? It seems you are just trying to drop a file into the Kibana plugin's public path. The way the paths work is that `plugins/xxx/` actually points to the `public` path in the plugin. So, I believe in your case, you'd just want [https://localhost:5601/aqo/plugins/kibana/settings/sections/indices/i18n/en.json](https://localhost:5601/aqo/plugins/kibana/settings/sections/indices/i18n/en.json), assuming your file path looks like `src/plugins/kibana/public/settings/sections/indices/i18n/en.json` ---
**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, 1:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/determining-the-url-for-reading-json-files/47723/3 "2017-07-06T13:55:35Z")