# Index Closed Exception

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-closed-exception/24343>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 25, 2015, 2:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-closed-exception/24343 "2015-06-25T14:25:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![tanveer3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecae2f/32.png) [@tanveer3](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tanveer3)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2015, 2:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-closed-exception/24343/1 "2015-06-25T14:25:33Z")

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Hi All,

Please advice, on executing the below command to Close the Index

CURL -XPOST '[http://localhost:9200/places/\_close](http://localhost:9200/places/_close)'

I received below message  
"error": "IndexClosedException[[places] closed]"

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**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2015, 2:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-closed-exception/24343/2 "2015-06-25T14:56:18Z")

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The error message indicates that the index already is closed. Is it?

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**Author:** ![tanveer3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecae2f/32.png) [@tanveer3](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tanveer3)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2015, 4:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-closed-exception/24343/3 "2015-06-25T16:42:16Z")

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Its giving message in all the open index.

If i try to open the closed index its giving the same error message

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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, 12:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-closed-exception/24343/4 "2017-07-06T00:05:23Z")

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