# How to rename Index

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-rename-index/70044>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 27, 2016, 8:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-rename-index/70044 "2016-12-27T08:07:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![thanigaivelan19](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/90ced4/32.png) [@thanigaivelan19](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/thanigaivelan19)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2016, 8:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-rename-index/70044/1 "2016-12-27T08:07:55Z")

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Hi,

How to rename index in elasticsearch 2.2.1, i want to rename the temp document to original document after updating the temp document.

Thanks

Thanigaivelan

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2016, 8:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-rename-index/70044/2 "2016-12-27T08:09:20Z")

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You cannot, [https://www.elastic.co/blog/changing-mapping-with-zero-downtime](https://www.elastic.co/blog/changing-mapping-with-zero-downtime) will be the closest thing you can do.

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**Author:** ![amar-tari](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/amar-tari/32/14243_2.png) [@amar-tari](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/amar-tari)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2016, 11:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-rename-index/70044/3 "2016-12-28T11:48:25Z")

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Hi,

You can create alias name for the index, this will not require any downtime.

```
curl -XPOST 'http://localhost/_aliases' -d '

```

{  
"actions" : [  
{ "add" : { "index" : "items", "alias" : "my\_items" } }  
]  
}'

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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:** [January 25, 2017, 11:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-rename-index/70044/4 "2017-01-25T11:48:30Z")

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