# Elasticsearch-head plugin not available through http://localhost:9200/\_plugin/head/ **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [January 15, 2013, 3:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-head-plugin-not-available-through-http-localhost-9200--plugin-head/10352 "2013-01-15T15:01:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Peter\_Schroder](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/peter_schroder/32/2513_2.png) [@Peter\_Schroder](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Peter_Schroder)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 3:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-head-plugin-not-available-through-http-localhost-9200--plugin-head/10352/1 "2013-01-15T15:01:30Z")
i just upgraded to latest elasticsearch 0.20.2 and reinstalled the head plugin, but i can't open it through the browser: [http://localhost:9200/\_plugin/head/](http://localhost:9200/_plugin/head/) the installation is fine, its installed into /usr/local/var/lib/elasticsearch/plugins: ○ → ls /usr/local/var/lib/elasticsearch/plugins/head/\_site/ LICENCE README.textile index.html lib when i open file://localhost/usr/local/var/lib/elasticsearch/plugins/head/\_site/index.html the plugin is there as expected. is there some new configuration option, that needs to be enabled to run the plugin? or did i miss anything related to site plugins? -- ---
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 4:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-head-plugin-not-available-through-http-localhost-9200--plugin-head/10352/2 "2013-01-15T16:06:33Z")
Are you sure you open it with the ending slash "/"? -- David 😉 Twitter : @dadoonet / @elasticsearchfr / @scrutmydocs Le 15 janv. 2013 à 16:01, Peter Schröder [phoetmail@googlemail.com](mailto:phoetmail@googlemail.com) a écrit : > i just upgraded to latest elasticsearch 0.20.2 and reinstalled the head plugin, but i can't open it through the browser: > > [http://localhost:9200/\_plugin/head/](http://localhost:9200/_plugin/head/) > > the installation is fine, its installed into /usr/local/var/lib/elasticsearch/plugins: > > ○ → ls /usr/local/var/lib/elasticsearch/plugins/head/\_site/ > LICENCE README.textile index.html lib > > when i open file://localhost/usr/local/var/lib/elasticsearch/plugins/head/\_site/index.html the plugin is there as expected. > > ## is there some new configuration option, that needs to be enabled to run the plugin? or did i miss anything related to site plugins? -- ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Treher](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/justin_treher/32/45243_2.png) [@Justin\_Treher](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Justin_Treher)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 4:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-head-plugin-not-available-through-http-localhost-9200--plugin-head/10352/3 "2013-01-15T16:25:49Z")
Yeah, I open it with the trailing slash. We need more information about what error you are getting? 500? 404? Timeout? On Tuesday, January 15, 2013 11:06:33 AM UTC-5, David Pilato wrote: > Are you sure you open it with the ending slash "/"? > > -- > David 😉 > Twitter : @dadoonet / @elasticsearchfr / @scrutmydocs > > Le 15 janv. 2013 à 16:01, Peter Schröder \<[phoe...@googlemail.com](mailto:phoe...@googlemail.com)\\> > a écrit : > > i just upgraded to latest elasticsearch 0.20.2 and reinstalled the head > plugin, but i can't open it through the browser: > > [http://localhost:9200/\_plugin/head/](http://localhost:9200/_plugin/head/) > > the installation is fine, its installed into > /usr/local/var/lib/elasticsearch/plugins: > > ○ → ls /usr/local/var/lib/elasticsearch/plugins/head/\_site/ > LICENCE README.textile index.html lib > > when i open > file://localhost/usr/local/var/lib/elasticsearch/plugins/head/\_site/index.html > the plugin is there as expected. > > is there some new configuration option, that needs to be enabled to run > the plugin? or did i miss anything related to site plugins? > > -- -- ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Schroder](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/peter_schroder/32/2513_2.png) [@Peter\_Schroder](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Peter_Schroder)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 11:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-head-plugin-not-available-through-http-localhost-9200--plugin-head/10352/4 "2013-01-16T11:58:58Z")
i verified it on another dev-machine. after the update, the plugin is gone. |system| walter in ~ ○ → curl -v "[http://localhost:9200/\_plugin/head/](http://localhost:9200/_plugin/head/)" - About to connect() to localhost port 9200 (#0) - Trying ::1... Connection refused - Trying 127.0.0.1... connected - Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1) port 9200 (#0) > GET /\_plugin/head/ HTTP/1.1 > User-Agent: curl/7.21.4 (universal-apple-darwin11.0) libcurl/7.21.4 > OpenSSL/0.9.8r zlib/1.2.5 > Host: localhost:9200 > Accept: _/_ \< HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found \< Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 \< Content-Length: 0 \< - Connection #0 to host localhost left intact - Closing connection #0 -- ---
**Author:** ![Igor\_Motov](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/igor_motov/32/45193_2.png) [@Igor\_Motov](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Igor_Motov)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 2:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-head-plugin-not-available-through-http-localhost-9200--plugin-head/10352/5 "2013-01-16T14:23:09Z")
I just tried it with a fresh installation of elasticsearch and it works fine. How did you install it? ~/Software› curl -O -L [http://download.elasticsearch.org/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-0.20.2.tar.gz](http://download.elasticsearch.org/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-0.20.2.tar.gz) % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 15.4M 100 15.4M 0 0 1577k 0 0:00:10 0:00:10 --:--:-- 1615k ~/Software› tar -xzf elasticsearch-0.20.2.tar.gz ~/Software› cd elasticsearch-0.20.2 ~/Software/elasticsearch-0.20.2› bin/plugin -install mobz/elasticsearch-head -\> Installing mobz/elasticsearch-head... Trying [https://github.com/mobz/elasticsearch-head/zipball/master](https://github.com/mobz/elasticsearch-head/zipball/master)... (assuming site plugin) Downloading ...................................DONE Identified as a \_site plugin, moving to \_site structure ... Installed head ~/Software/elasticsearch-0.20.2› bin/elasticsearch ~/Software/elasticsearch-0.20.2› curl -v [http://localhost:9200/\_plugin/head/](http://localhost:9200/_plugin/head/) - About to connect() to localhost port 9200 (#0) - Trying 127.0.0.1... connected - Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1) port 9200 (#0) > GET /\_plugin/head/ HTTP/1.1 > User-Agent: curl/7.19.7 (universal-apple-darwin10.0) libcurl/7.19.7 > OpenSSL/0.9.8r zlib/1.2.3 > Host: localhost:9200 > Accept: _/_ \< HTTP/1.1 200 OK \< Content-Type: text/html \< Content-Length: 1789 \< ElasticSearch Head .... On Wednesday, January 16, 2013 6:58:58 AM UTC-5, Peter Schröder wrote: > i verified it on another dev-machine. after the update, the plugin is gone. > > |system| walter in ~ > ○ → curl -v "[http://localhost:9200/\_plugin/head/](http://localhost:9200/_plugin/head/)" > > - About to connect() to localhost port 9200 (#0) > - Trying ::1... Connection refused > - Trying 127.0.0.1... connected > - Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1) port 9200 (#0) > > > GET /\_plugin/head/ HTTP/1.1 > > User-Agent: curl/7.21.4 (universal-apple-darwin11.0) libcurl/7.21.4 > > OpenSSL/0.9.8r zlib/1.2.5 > > Host: localhost:9200 > > Accept: _/_ > > \< HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found > \< Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > \< Content-Length: 0 > \< > > - Connection #0 to host localhost left intact > - Closing connection #0 -- ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Schroder](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/peter_schroder/32/2513_2.png) [@Peter\_Schroder](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Peter_Schroder)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 5:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-head-plugin-not-available-through-http-localhost-9200--plugin-head/10352/6 "2013-01-16T17:18:26Z")
i installed via homebrew. re-installing elasticsearch did not help, but brute force did the trick: rm -rf /usr/local/var/lib/elasticsearch/ now everything is fine, except that all indexes are gone 🙂 -- ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Schroder](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/peter_schroder/32/2513_2.png) [@Peter\_Schroder](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Peter_Schroder)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2013, 11:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-head-plugin-not-available-through-http-localhost-9200--plugin-head/10352/7 "2013-01-24T11:57:48Z")
stopped working again... no logs, nothing ☹ -- ---
**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, 2:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-head-plugin-not-available-through-http-localhost-9200--plugin-head/10352/8 "2017-07-06T02:54:48Z")