# FORBIDDEN/12/index read-only / allow delete (api)\]

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/forbidden-12-index-read-only-allow-delete-api/110282>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 5, 2017, 8:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/forbidden-12-index-read-only-allow-delete-api/110282 "2017-12-05T08:27:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tal\_Druckmann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Tal\_Druckmann](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tal_Druckmann)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2017, 8:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/forbidden-12-index-read-only-allow-delete-api/110282/4 "2017-12-10T08:28:23Z")

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I tried doing that with powershell WebRequest but it still gives me this error. I mean this very same command yields the error 'FORBIDDEN/12/index-read-only'

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