# HELP ME PLEASE.! ERROR - {"error":"SearchPhaseExecutionException\[Failed to execute phase \[initial\], No indices / shards to search on, requested indices are \[\]\]","status":500}

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-me-please-error-error-searchphaseexecutionexception-failed-to-execute-phase-initial-no-indices-shards-to-search-on-requested-indices-are-status-500/18060>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 12, 2014, 4:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-me-please-error-error-searchphaseexecutionexception-failed-to-execute-phase-initial-no-indices-shards-to-search-on-requested-indices-are-status-500/18060 "2014-06-12T04:51:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![mummers123](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/278dde/32.png) [@mummers123](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mummers123)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2014, 4:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-me-please-error-error-searchphaseexecutionexception-failed-to-execute-phase-initial-no-indices-shards-to-search-on-requested-indices-are-status-500/18060/1 "2014-06-12T04:51:24Z")

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hello; im a new ES; i hava question! please.. help me!

i executed ES server like this;

i Executed the following command to index the data crawled by Nutch in to the ElasticSearch server.

hadoop@ip-172-31-13-16:/$ nutch elasticindex elasticsearch -all

..

14/06/12 05:03:52 INFO elastic.ElasticIndexerJob: Done

..

hadoop@ip-172-31-13-16:/$ elasticsearch -f  
[2014-06-12 04:48:08,201][INFO][node] [Slab] {0.19.4}[16765]: initializing ...  
[2014-06-12 04:48:08,207][INFO][plugins] [Slab] loaded [], sites []  
[2014-06-12 04:48:12,166][INFO][node] [Slab] {0.19.4}[16765]: initialized  
[2014-06-12 04:48:12,170][INFO][node] [Slab] {0.19.4}[16765]: starting ...  
[2014-06-12 04:48:12,387][INFO][transport] [Slab] bound\_address {inet[/0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:9301]}, publish\_address {inet[/172.31.13.16:9301]}  
[2014-06-12 04:48:15,542][INFO][cluster.service] [Slab] detected\_master [Paralyzer][vEUyNzdEQw6TtC-GKPZ3Rw][inet[/172.31.13.16:9300]], added {[Paralyzer][vEUyNzdEQw6TtC-GKPZ3Rw][inet[/172.31.13.16:9300]],}, reason: zen-disco-receive(from master [[Paralyzer][vEUyNzdEQw6TtC-GKPZ3Rw][inet[/172.31.13.16:9300]]])  
[2014-06-12 04:48:15,563][INFO][discovery] [Slab] elasticsearch/0xPMpsJmRbeMVXnTscxhKg  
[2014-06-12 04:48:15,566][INFO][http] [Slab] bound\_address {inet[/0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:9201]}, publish\_address {inet[/172.31.13.16:9201]}  
[2014-06-12 04:48:15,566][INFO][node] [Slab] {0.19.4}[16765]: started

and test it. CURL command;

hadoop@ip-172-31-1-51:/home/ubuntu$ curl master:9200  
{  
"ok" : true,  
"status" : 200,  
"name" : "Paralyzer",  
"version" : {  
"number" : "0.19.4",  
"snapshot\_build" : false  
},  
"tagline" : "You Know, for Search"  
}

hadoop@ip-172-31-1-51:/home/ubuntu$ curl -XGET '[http://master:9200/\_search?q=hadoop](http://master:9200/_search?q=hadoop)'

{"error":"SearchPhaseExecutionException[Failed to execute phase [initial], No indices / shards to search on, requested indices are []]","status":500}

what ERROR is it? plz any help;!

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**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 1:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-me-please-error-error-searchphaseexecutionexception-failed-to-execute-phase-initial-no-indices-shards-to-search-on-requested-indices-are-status-500/18060/2 "2017-07-06T01:23:07Z")

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