# Disable remote access

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-remote-access/6272>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 3, 2012, 5:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-remote-access/6272 "2012-01-03T17:47:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![palmic](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/palmic/32/3013_2.png) [@palmic](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/palmic)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2012, 5:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-remote-access/6272/1 "2012-01-03T17:47:07Z")

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I cant find any information how to disable remote access to elasticsearch  
api, does anybody know?  
I realy dont want to solve it with firewall.  
Thank you.

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**Author:** ![Clinton\_Gormley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@Clinton\_Gormley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Clinton_Gormley)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 11:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-remote-access/6272/2 "2012-01-06T11:36:52Z")

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On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 09:47 -0800, palmic wrote:

> I cant find any information how to disable remote access to elasticsearch  
> api, does anybody know?  
> I realy dont want to solve it with firewall.

Bad luck 😉

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**Author:** ![Karussell1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/50afbb/32.png) [@Karussell1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Karussell1)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 12:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-remote-access/6272/3 "2012-01-06T12:21:44Z")

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In which environment are you acting? EC2?

Can you use some proxy app (e.g. nginx) to protect access?

Peter.

PS: here is an open issue [https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/issues/664](https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/issues/664)

On 3 Jan., 18:47, palmic [michal.pa...@gmail.com](mailto:michal.pa...@gmail.com) wrote:

> I cant find any information how to disable remote access to elasticsearch  
> api, does anybody know?  
> I realy dont want to solve it with firewall.  
> Thank you.

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**Author:** ![karmi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/karmi/32/44951_2.png) [@karmi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/karmi)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2012, 9:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-remote-access/6272/4 "2012-01-07T09:54:24Z")

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What does "disable remote access" mean here exactly?

You can lock down ES pretty hard (eg. disable multicast, disable HTTP,  
etc). You can put a proxy in front of ES, as Karussel suggest, example  
config: \<[GitHub - karmi/cookbook-elasticsearch: https://github.com/elasticsearch/cookbook-elasticsearch](https://github.com/karmi/cookbook-elasticsearch/blob/master/)  
templates/default/elasticsearch\_proxy\_nginx.conf.erb\>

On Jan 3, 6:47 pm, palmic [michal.pa...@gmail.com](mailto:michal.pa...@gmail.com) wrote:

> I cant find any information how to disable remote access to elasticsearch  
> api, does anybody know?  
> I realy dont want to solve it with firewall.  
> Thank you.
> 
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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, 3:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-remote-access/6272/5 "2017-07-06T03:43:34Z")

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