# Getting 403 from Elasticsearch head

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-403-from-elasticsearch-head/53299
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [June 20, 2016, 9:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-403-from-elasticsearch-head/53299 "2016-06-20T09:42:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![someone235](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/someone235/32/8330_2.png) [@someone235](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/someone235)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2016, 9:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-403-from-elasticsearch-head/53299/1 "2016-06-20T09:42:59Z")

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When Elasticsearch Head is posting to this: /\_all/\_search It gets 403 Someone knows what can be the cause, and how to fix this?

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### Author: ![mainec](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mainec/32/5557_2.png) [@mainec](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mainec)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2016, 11:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-403-from-elasticsearch-head/53299/2 "2016-06-20T11:10:20Z")

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This sounds a lot like the behaviour described here:

> <https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/3703>

Hope this helps,  
Isabel

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### Author: ![someone235](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/someone235/32/8330_2.png) [@someone235](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/someone235)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2016, 11:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-403-from-elasticsearch-head/53299/3 "2016-06-20T11:39:58Z")

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My index is not read only

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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 5, 2017, 10:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-403-from-elasticsearch-head/53299/4 "2017-07-05T22:42:19Z")

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