# Failed to create index..Please help
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-create-index-please-help/56003
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [July 20, 2016, 4:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-create-index-please-help/56003 "2016-07-20T16:43:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@genesis](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/genesis)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2016, 4:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-create-index-please-help/56003/1 "2016-07-20T16:43:10Z")
[2016-07-20 16:18:08,400][DEBUG][action.admin.indices.create] [ElasticSearch-14] [content] failed to create
org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.MapperParsingException: mapping [logs]
at org.elasticsearch.cluster.metadata.MetaDataCreateIndexService$2.execute(MetaDataCreateIndexService.java:394)
at org.elasticsearch.cluster.service.InternalClusterService$UpdateTask.run(InternalClusterService.java:374)
at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.PrioritizedEsThreadPoolExecutor$TieBreakingPrioritizedRunnable.runAndClean(PrioritizedEsThreadPoolExecutor.java:196)
at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.PrioritizedEsThreadPoolExecutor$TieBreakingPrioritizedRunnable.run(PrioritizedEsThreadPoolExecutor.java:162)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Caused by: org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.MapperParsingException: Field [title] cannot be analyzed and have doc values
at org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.core.StringFieldMapper.(StringFieldMapper.java:207)
at org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.core.StringFieldMapper$Builder.build(StringFieldMapper.java:140)
at org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.core.StringFieldMapper$Builder.build(StringFieldMapper.java:72)
at org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.object.ObjectMapper$Builder.build(ObjectMapper.java:165)
at org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.DocumentMapper$Builder.(DocumentMapper.java:167)
at org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.MapperBuilders.doc(MapperBuilders.java:41)
at org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.DocumentMapperParser.parse(DocumentMapperParser.java:211)
Here is a portion of the mapping:
curl -XPUT localhost:9200/\_template/content -d '
{
"template": "content\*",
"settings": {
"index.mapper.dynamic": "false",
"index.number\_of\_replicas": "1",
"index.number\_of\_shards": "17"
},
"mappings": {
"logs": {
"properties": {
"@timestamp": {
"type": "date",
"format": "dateOptionalTime",
"doc\_values": true
},
"content": {
"type": "string",
"doc\_values": true
},
"keyword": {
"type": "object",
"doc\_values": true
},
"title": {
"type": "string",
"doc\_values": true
},
"url": {
"type": "string",
"index": "not\_analyzed",
"doc\_values": true
},
---
### Author:  [@tinle](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tinle)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2016, 4:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-create-index-please-help/56003/2 "2016-07-20T16:58:40Z")
> [@genesis](#):
>
> Caused by: org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.MapperParsingException: Field [title] cannot be analyzed and have doc values
> [@genesis](#):
>
> "title": { "type": "string", "doc\_values": true },
You need to add [quote="genesis, post:1, topic:56003"]
"index": "not\_analyzed",
[/quote]
to mapping for "title"
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### Author:  [@genesis](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/genesis)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2016, 5:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-create-index-please-help/56003/3 "2016-07-20T17:16:50Z")
Thanks it works
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 10:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-create-index-please-help/56003/4 "2017-07-05T22:33:58Z")