# Opening my file in Kibana Discover Tab

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/opening-my-file-in-kibana-discover-tab/234440>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [May 27, 2020, 2:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/opening-my-file-in-kibana-discover-tab/234440 "2020-05-27T02:29:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![richylyq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/41988e/32.png) [@richylyq](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/richylyq)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2020, 2:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/opening-my-file-in-kibana-discover-tab/234440/1 "2020-05-27T02:29:00Z")

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Hi,  
What should i do in order to be able to open my original files that i have ingested. I tried making `file.url` into an url but when it is tapped into, it opens the file with `localhost:5601/file:///....` which ends up in an error page since the file is not found. 🙇‍♂️

Or is it not possible for us to open our file from the local directory, therefore the file has to be on a server location and thus, making the url as the ip address of the file like `http://192.168.1.1222/files/test.pdf`

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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:** [May 27, 2020, 2:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/opening-my-file-in-kibana-discover-tab/234440/2 "2020-05-27T02:53:15Z")

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Kibana isn't really designed for this. What sort of files are they and why do you want to open them there?

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**Author:** ![richylyq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/41988e/32.png) [@richylyq](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/richylyq)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2020, 2:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/opening-my-file-in-kibana-discover-tab/234440/3 "2020-06-01T02:57:09Z")

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@warkolm it's the usecase whereby we want the user to be able to open that specific file when he looks at the particular hit result.

I done a bit of search with regards to the opening of file and it seems like we might be able to add protocols in the kibana.yml to alter them. Any advice on this?

> [@How to open file from Kibana using path.real (or any other data) from Fscrawler](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-open-file-from-kibana-using-path-real-or-any-other-data-from-fscrawler/196435?u):
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> Hello everyone. I am new to Elasticsearch. I am indexing some pdf, word files using Fscrawler (which works great!) and using Kibana to filter, search. I am wandering if there is a way to open file from Kibana using the data (e. g. path.real)? Thanks in advance.

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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:** [June 29, 2020, 2:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/opening-my-file-in-kibana-discover-tab/234440/4 "2020-06-29T02:57:12Z")

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