# Login is currently disabled because the license could not be determined. Please check that Elasticsearch is running, then refresh this page

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/login-is-currently-disabled-because-the-license-could-not-be-determined-please-check-that-elasticsearch-is-running-then-refresh-this-page/77803>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [March 8, 2017, 11:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/login-is-currently-disabled-because-the-license-could-not-be-determined-please-check-that-elasticsearch-is-running-then-refresh-this-page/77803 "2017-03-08T11:18:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Steven\_Williams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@Steven\_Williams](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Steven_Williams)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2017, 11:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/login-is-currently-disabled-because-the-license-could-not-be-determined-please-check-that-elasticsearch-is-running-then-refresh-this-page/77803/1 "2017-03-08T11:18:26Z")

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UPDATE 08-03-2017 11:38  
I have now sorted the below issue.  
I had ES running on my internal IP (192.168...)

# I changed it to localhost, and restarted Kibana and ES, and it now works. I will leave the original issue below.

I have checked the existing topic on this.

Elastic 5  
Kibana 5  
Installed x-pack

started ES, it propmted for uid and pwd in browser at :9200  
used elastic and changeme.

ES loaded fine.

installed kibana 5  
started kibana  
loaded kibana and got

"Login is currently disabled because the license could not be determined. Please check that Elasticsearch is running, then refresh this page."  
NOTE: im not using localhost, but my internal ip which isnt 127.0.0.1 but 192.168......  
would that make a difference?  
Checked by license as per the only other topic said, and it says active and trial as below  
{  
"license" : {  
"status" : "active",  
"uid" : "ad90df7f-568e-4c32-9848-2b4377ff7f96",  
"type" : "trial",  
"issue\_date" : "2017-03-08T10:46:56.097Z",  
"issue\_date\_in\_millis" : 1488970016097,  
"expiry\_date" : "2017-04-07T10:46:56.097Z",  
"expiry\_date\_in\_millis" : 1491562016097,  
"max\_nodes" : 1000,  
"issued\_to" : "elasticsearch",  
"issuer" : "elasticsearch",  
"start\_date\_in\_millis" : -1  
}  
}

Any help greatly appreciated... Yes im an ES newbie,. used it before, but now im doing it for a personal project and to add to my CV

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**Author:** ![bhavyarm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bhavyarm/32/22392_2.png) [@bhavyarm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bhavyarm)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2017, 6:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/login-is-currently-disabled-because-the-license-could-not-be-determined-please-check-that-elasticsearch-is-running-then-refresh-this-page/77803/2 "2017-03-08T18:50:12Z")

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Thanks for giving an update to the community Steven.

Cheers,  
Bhavya

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**Author:** ![Steven\_Williams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@Steven\_Williams](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Steven_Williams)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2017, 7:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/login-is-currently-disabled-because-the-license-could-not-be-determined-please-check-that-elasticsearch-is-running-then-refresh-this-page/77803/3 "2017-03-08T19:48:15Z")

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no problem 🙂

Im glad I was able to sort the issue fairly quickly

Im enjoying my elasticSearch journey so far

Currently playing with nested types, and doing nested searches.

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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 5, 2017, 7:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/login-is-currently-disabled-because-the-license-could-not-be-determined-please-check-that-elasticsearch-is-running-then-refresh-this-page/77803/4 "2017-04-05T19:48:19Z")

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Closed on April 5, 2017, 7:48pm UTC

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