# Kibana remote access on windows

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-remote-access-on-windows/77815>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [March 8, 2017, 12:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-remote-access-on-windows/77815 "2017-03-08T12:55:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![ssi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a3d4f5/32.png) [@ssi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ssi)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2017, 12:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-remote-access-on-windows/77815/1 "2017-03-08T12:55:16Z")

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whata values do i have to change and to what in the kibana.yml file to get this to work

do i have to remove the "#" from the lines that i change, i notice they are there in the original file?

my current non-working kibana.yml is below. I can get access through localhost with out any issues, also on port 80.

I've opend relevant ports on the windows firewall for in/outbound ports and added a rule to cover the kibana service.

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**# Kibana is served by a back end server. This setting specifies the port to use.**  
**#server.port: 80**  
**# Specifies the address to which the Kibana server will bind. IP addresses and host names are both valid values.**  
**# The default is 'localhost', which usually means remote machines will not be able to connect.**  
**# To allow connections from remote users, set this parameter to a non-loopback address.**  
**#server.host: "172.17.20.201"**  
**# Enables you to specify a path to mount Kibana at if you are running behind a proxy. This only affects**  
**# the URLs generated by Kibana, your proxy is expected to remove the basePath value before forwarding requests**  
**# to Kibana. This setting cannot end in a slash.**  
**#server.basePath: ""**

**# The maximum payload size in bytes for incoming server requests.**  
**#server.maxPayloadBytes: 1048576**

**# The Kibana server's name. This is used for display purposes.**  
**#[server.name](http://server.name): "srvp00081.XXX.local"**

**# The URL of the Elasticsearch instance to use for all your queries.**  
**#elasticsearch.url: "[http://localhost:9200](http://localhost:9200)"**

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**Author:** ![Brandon\_Kobel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/brandon_kobel/32/14829_2.png) [@Brandon\_Kobel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Brandon_Kobel)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2017, 5:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-remote-access-on-windows/77815/2 "2017-03-08T17:10:14Z")

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@ssi you'll want to change the `server.host` to the IP address of the network adapter that is publicly accessible.

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**Author:** ![ssi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a3d4f5/32.png) [@ssi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ssi)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2017, 7:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-remote-access-on-windows/77815/3 "2017-03-08T19:04:12Z")

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Do I need to remove the "#" at the beginning of the line also ? Thanks for the reply

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**Author:** ![Brandon\_Kobel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/brandon_kobel/32/14829_2.png) [@Brandon\_Kobel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Brandon_Kobel)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2017, 4:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-remote-access-on-windows/77815/4 "2017-03-16T16:14:25Z")

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@ssi yes, the `#` comments out the line, you'll have to remove it to get that setting used.

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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:** [April 13, 2017, 4:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-remote-access-on-windows/77815/5 "2017-04-13T16:14:27Z")

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