# Getting the following exception after changing the index name

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-the-following-exception-after-changing-the-index-name/22373>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [February 25, 2015, 5:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-the-following-exception-after-changing-the-index-name/22373 "2015-02-25T05:52:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![prachicsa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@prachicsa](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/prachicsa)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2015, 5:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-the-following-exception-after-changing-the-index-name/22373/1 "2015-02-25T05:52:05Z")

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Hi,

I have changed the index name from "sample1" to "sample2", but after making  
that I am getting the exception while indexing a record in elastic-search:

org.elasticsearch.cluster.block.ClusterBlockException: blocked by:  
[FORBIDDEN/4/index closed];  
at  
org.elasticsearch.cluster.block.ClusterBlocks.indexBlockedException(ClusterBlocks.java:158)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.action.index.TransportIndexAction.checkRequestBlock(TransportIndexAction.java:174)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.action.index.TransportIndexAction.checkRequestBlock(TransportIndexAction.java:66)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.action.support.replication.TransportShardReplicationOperationAction$AsyncShardOperationAction.start(TransportShardReplicationOperationAction.java:353)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.action.support.replication.TransportShardReplicationOperationAction$AsyncShardOperationAction.start(TransportShardReplicationOperationAction.java:330)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.action.support.replication.TransportShardReplicationOperationAction.doExecute(TransportShardReplicationOperationAction.java:101)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.action.index.TransportIndexAction.innerExecute(TransportIndexAction.java:134)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.action.index.TransportIndexAction.doExecute(TransportIndexAction.java:116)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.action.index.TransportIndexAction.doExecute(TransportIndexAction.java:66)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.action.support.TransportAction.execute(TransportAction.java:63)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.action.support.replication.TransportShardReplicationOperationAction$OperationTransportHandler.messageReceived(TransportShardReplicationOperationAction.java:203)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.action.support.replication.TransportShardReplicationOperationAction$OperationTransportHandler.messageReceived(TransportShardReplicationOperationAction.java:185)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.transport.netty.MessageChannelHandler.handleRequest(MessageChannelHandler.java:212)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.transport.netty.MessageChannelHandler.messageReceived(MessageChannelHandler.java:109)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.SimpleChannelUpstreamHandler.handleUpstream(SimpleChannelUpstreamHandler.java:70)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline.sendUpstream(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:564)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline$DefaultChannelHandlerContext.sendUpstream(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:791)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.Channels.fireMessageReceived(Channels.java:296)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.handler.codec.frame.FrameDecoder.unfoldAndFireMessageReceived(FrameDecoder.java:462)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.handler.codec.frame.FrameDecoder.callDecode(FrameDecoder.java:443)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.handler.codec.frame.FrameDecoder.messageReceived(FrameDecoder.java:303)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.SimpleChannelUpstreamHandler.handleUpstream(SimpleChannelUpstreamHandler.java:70)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline.sendUpstream(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:564)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline$DefaultChannelHandlerContext.sendUpstream(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:791)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.OpenChannelsHandler.handleUpstream(OpenChannelsHandler.java:74)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline.sendUpstream(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:564)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline.sendUpstream(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:559)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.Channels.fireMessageReceived(Channels.java:268)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.Channels.fireMessageReceived(Channels.java:255)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioWorker.read(NioWorker.java:88)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.AbstractNioWorker.process(AbstractNioWorker.java:108)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.AbstractNioSelector.run(AbstractNioSelector.java:318)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.AbstractNioWorker.run(AbstractNioWorker.java:89)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioWorker.run(NioWorker.java:178)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.util.ThreadRenamingRunnable.run(ThreadRenamingRunnable.java:108)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.util.internal.DeadLockProofWorker$1.run(DeadLockProofWorker.java:42)  
at  
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)  
at  
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)  
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:724)

How should I go about it?

Regards,  
Prachi

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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 6, 2017, 12:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-the-following-exception-after-changing-the-index-name/22373/2 "2017-07-06T00:30:20Z")

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Closed on July 6, 2017, 12:30am UTC