# Pointing index name to alias

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/pointing-index-name-to-alias/171267>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 7, 2019, 10:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/pointing-index-name-to-alias/171267 "2019-03-07T10:12:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2019, 10:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/pointing-index-name-to-alias/171267/13 "2019-03-08T10:18:47Z")

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Here the URL seems wrong to me. It should be something like:

```auto
url => "http://localhost:9200/test1/_update_by_query?q=id:1"

```

or

```auto
url => "localhost:9200/test1/_update_by_query?q=id:1"

```

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