# Hide or rename the kibana url
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hide-or-rename-the-kibana-url/195900
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [August 20, 2019, 11:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hide-or-rename-the-kibana-url/195900 "2019-08-20T11:20:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@mark\_sirus](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mark_sirus)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2019, 11:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hide-or-rename-the-kibana-url/195900/1 "2019-08-20T11:20:01Z")
Hi,
I have a typical problem wherein I am trying to hide the url that has "kibana" in it i.e. basically all the "/app/kibana#" so that the user can never see them. In other words when user accesses pages like dev\_tools or management they will not see the url "..../app/kibana#/......" and instead see some other url like "..../app/crystal#/....." or the url itself is hidden etc.
Is this possible and if so I would appreciate if anyone tells me how can I achieve it.
Thanks,
Mark
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### Author:  [@Brandon\_Kobel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Brandon_Kobel)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2019, 4:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hide-or-rename-the-kibana-url/195900/2 "2019-08-20T16:30:51Z")
Hey @mark_sirus, that's not possible. These routes are hard-coded and not configurable.
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### Author:  [@mark\_sirus](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mark_sirus)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2019, 10:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hide-or-rename-the-kibana-url/195900/3 "2019-08-20T22:42:25Z")
Thanks Brandon for your prompt reply.
Then in order to achieve this, I read that there is a way of using reverse proxy (through nginx) . I tried different configuration of it but was not successful. If I can get the exact nginx.conf so that the /app/kibana#/ request is automatically shown as /app/crystal in the url link then it would be great.
Thanks,
Mark
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### Author:  [@Brandon\_Kobel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Brandon_Kobel)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2019, 11:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hide-or-rename-the-kibana-url/195900/4 "2019-08-20T23:09:50Z")
@mark_sirus, using a reverse-proxy for this allows you to rewrite the requests which are coming in to `/app/crystal/` to `/app/kibana`, but we generate links within Kibana which will just go to `/app/kibana` and there's potential this will break a lot of other things.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2019, 11:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hide-or-rename-the-kibana-url/195900/5 "2019-09-17T23:10:01Z")
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