Fsriver question

i created my river by

PUT _river/complianceRiver/_meta
{ "type": "fs",
"fs": {
"url": "/home/sbetha/Documents/Compliance",
"update_rate": "15m",
"includes": [".doc",".docx",".xls",".xlsx",".pdf",".txt","*.rtf"]
},
"index": {
"index": "complianceDocs",
"type": "doc",
"bulk_size": 100,
"flush_interval": "30s"
}
}

and it is successfully created

but when i run

GET http://localhost:9200/complianceDocs/doc/_search

i receive

{
"error": "IndexMissingException[[complianceDocs] missing]",
"status": 404
}

any help is very much appreciated

thank you

regards
sasi