# In Kibana 4.5.x how to change the url syntax "kibana"

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/in-kibana-4-5-x-how-to-change-the-url-syntax-kibana/65587
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [November 10, 2016, 6:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/in-kibana-4-5-x-how-to-change-the-url-syntax-kibana/65587 "2016-11-10T06:35:14Z")
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### Author: ![rkhapre](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rkhapre/32/48333_2.png) [@rkhapre](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rkhapre)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2016, 6:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/in-kibana-4-5-x-how-to-change-the-url-syntax-kibana/65587/1 "2016-11-10T06:35:14Z")

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Hi All

I am using Kibana 4.5.x and currently the URL is like this

> [http://xxx.xxx.x.xxx:5601/app/kibana#/discover](http://xxx.xxx.x.xxx:5601/app/kibana#/discover)?

and i want to change this to

> ```
> http://xxx.xxx.x.xxx:5601/app/abcd#/discover?
> 
> ```

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### Author: ![BigFunger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bigfunger/32/7323_2.png) [@BigFunger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/BigFunger)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2016, 10:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/in-kibana-4-5-x-how-to-change-the-url-syntax-kibana/65587/2 "2016-11-10T22:03:14Z")

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I don't think that it is possible to accomplish what you want. The word in the url after `app` is the name of the plugin. If you were to change the name of the kibana plugin, other plugins that have a dependency on the kibana plugin would fail.

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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: [December 8, 2016, 10:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/in-kibana-4-5-x-how-to-change-the-url-syntax-kibana/65587/3 "2016-12-08T22:03:15Z")

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