# Kibana running on localhost but cant accessible by public IP

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-running-on-localhost-but-cant-accessible-by-public-ip/118164>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [February 2, 2018, 6:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-running-on-localhost-but-cant-accessible-by-public-ip/118164 "2018-02-02T06:52:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kishan\_Lal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ee7513/32.png) [@Kishan\_Lal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kishan_Lal)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2018, 6:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-running-on-localhost-but-cant-accessible-by-public-ip/118164/1 "2018-02-02T06:52:13Z")

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kibana.yml

server.port: 5601  
server.host : 'localhost'  
server.name: ".eastus.cloudapp.azure.com"  
elasticsearch.url: "[http://localhost:9200](http://localhost:9200)"

port is are enabled  
inbound rules added

please tell me what I am doing wrong

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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:** [February 2, 2018, 8:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-running-on-localhost-but-cant-accessible-by-public-ip/118164/2 "2018-02-02T08:30:50Z")

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> [@Kishan\_Lal](#):
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> server.host : 'localhost'

That binds to 127.0.0.1, which is not a routable IP. You need to change that to another interface on your host.

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**Author:** ![Kishan\_Lal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ee7513/32.png) [@Kishan\_Lal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kishan_Lal)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2018, 9:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-running-on-localhost-but-cant-accessible-by-public-ip/118164/3 "2018-02-02T09:16:46Z")

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Thank you...!!! I changed it to 0.0.0.0.. Then it worked

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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:** [March 2, 2018, 9:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-running-on-localhost-but-cant-accessible-by-public-ip/118164/4 "2018-03-02T09:16:54Z")

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