# Seemingly can't connect to endpointBase from AWS Server **URL:** \ **Category:** Elastic Search\ **Created:** [September 28, 2020, 4:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/seemingly-cant-connect-to-endpointbase-from-aws-server/250235 "2020-09-28T16:42:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![spadel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@spadel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spadel)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2020, 4:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/seemingly-cant-connect-to-endpointbase-from-aws-server/250235/1 "2020-09-28T16:42:55Z")
I am trying to host an Elasticsearch Application on an AWS Server. For this purpose I am using Elastic Enterprise Search. I configured the API connector as follows: ``` const connector = new AppSearchAPIConnector({ searchKey: "search-gs7t3micqu41z1dsou1ccz95", engineName: "sentence-similarity", endpointBase: "http://ec2-18-159-135-25.eu-central-1.compute.amazonaws.com:3002" }); ``` The application itself is running with npm under port 3000. I enabled both ports in the AWS Security Group. After starting both Elastic Search and Enterprise Search, after `npm start` I can also connect to [http://ec2-18-159-135-25.eu-central-1.compute.amazonaws.com:3000](http://ec2-18-159-135-25.eu-central-1.compute.amazonaws.com:3000), so that works. However, once I make an API call over the application, I get the following error: > POST > [http://ec2-18-159-135-25.eu-central-1.compute.amazonaws.com:3002/api/as/v1/engines/sentence-similarity/search.json](http://ec2-18-159-135-25.eu-central-1.compute.amazonaws.com:3002/api/as/v1/engines/sentence-similarity/search.json) > net::ERR\_CONNECTION\_REFUSED Moreover, when I type `curl http://localhost:3002/api/as/v1/engines/sentence-similarity/search.json` in the console, I get the following error: > {"error":"You need to sign in or sign up before continuing."} Therefore I assume, that there is a problem with the connection to Elasticsearch. When I was hosting the application on my local machine, I never encountered this problem. **My ideas, how to possibly fix the problem:** - I had to reinstall Elastic Search and Enterprise Search on the AWS Server. Possibly, something with the authentification went wrong, and I cannot connect to my Elasticsearch engine. - There are two `.yml` files, one for Elastic Search and one for Enterprise Search, which I can configure. Possibly, I have to adjust these, when I host the application not on my local machine. In any case, I am a beginner in deployment and I need some help for the details. Thank you very much in advance! ---
**Author:** ![constancecchen](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/constancecchen/32/71762_2.png) [@constancecchen](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/constancecchen)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2020, 6:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/seemingly-cant-connect-to-endpointbase-from-aws-server/250235/2 "2020-09-29T18:51:20Z")
> There are two `.yml` files, one for Elastic Search and one for Enterprise Search, which I can configure. Possibly, I have to adjust these, when I host the application not on my local machine. Full disclaimer, I also mostly work locally/in dev, but this sounds like the most likely culprit to me! 🙂 On production builds, you **definitely** have to update the `elasticsearch.yml` and `enterprise-search.yml` files. On dev builds, there are a lot of fallbacks built in (the config/yml files assume localhost:9200 and localhost:3002, for example). Off the top of my head, for `enterprise-search.yml` you need at least the following configs: ```auto elasticsearch.host: '' elasticsearch.username: '' elasticsearch.password: '' secret_management.encryption_keys: [] allow_es_settings_modification: true ``` You might also need to set your `ent_search.auth.source` if you're using Standard vs Native auth. I can't quite remember what `elasticsearch.yml` needs, but there should be documentation there on Elastic's docs - you can [check out our configuration docs as a starting point](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/app-search/current/installation.html#installation-self-managed). Hope that helps! ---
**Author:** ![spadel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@spadel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spadel)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2020, 7:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/seemingly-cant-connect-to-endpointbase-from-aws-server/250235/3 "2020-09-29T19:02:59Z")
Thank you very much for your reply. Unfortunately I am totally lost here and the documentation confuses me a lot. Can someone help me? I assume, that with the information that I have posted it should potentially possible to configure everything. I would be so grateful, I am working on that since a long time now 😕 At the moment, my files are configured as follows: For elasticsearch.yml: > xpack.security.enabled: **true** > discovery.type: single-node > cluster.routing.allocation.disk.threshold\_enabled: **true** > cluster.routing.allocation.disk.watermark.flood\_stage: 200mb > cluster.routing.allocation.disk.watermark.low: 500mb > cluster.routing.allocation.disk.watermark.high: 300mb > xpack.security.authc.api\_key.enabled: **true** And for enterprise-search.yml: > secret\_management.encryption\_keys: [''] > allow\_es\_settings\_modification: **true** > elasticsearch.username: elastic > elasticsearch.password: '' > ent\_search.auth.source: standard Also, I feel like when I start elasticsearch it wants to connect me to a new instance instead of my existing one. I for example checked, that when I log into the app search interface, there are no engines installed. ---
**Author:** ![constancecchen](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/constancecchen/32/71762_2.png) [@constancecchen](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/constancecchen)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2020, 8:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/seemingly-cant-connect-to-endpointbase-from-aws-server/250235/4 "2020-09-29T20:45:34Z")
Your `elasticsearch.yml` looks good. These are the only config settings in there that Enterprise Search cares about: ```auto action.auto_create_index: ".ent-search-*-logs-*,-.ent-search-*,-test-.ent-search-*,+*" xpack.security.enabled: true xpack.security.authc.api_key.enabled: true ``` It looks like you have 2 of the 3. Maybe try adding `action.auto_create_index` just in case. Oh, and can you note what version you're on? I'm assuming latest / 7.9.2? `enterprise-search.yml` looks like it's missing `elasticsearch.host` - can you confirm you have it and that it's set to the correct URL? You don't have to paste it here (obviously, for security reasons - also I'd suggest replacing your elasticsearch.password with a `''` as well!), just verbally confirm that it's there. Also a quick reminder - don't forget to hard stop & restart **both** Elasticsearch and Enterprise Search whenever you change a config yml file! They don't restart automatically and the changes won't take if you don't manually restart. ---
**Author:** ![spadel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@spadel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spadel)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2020, 9:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/seemingly-cant-connect-to-endpointbase-from-aws-server/250235/5 "2020-09-29T21:00:22Z")
What exactly should `elasticsearch.host` be? Is it my aws-server-adress/3000:? And yes I have version 7.9.2. As a side question: Do I have to open port 9200 as well? I can't see how it is being used exactly, but maybe it causes issues too. ---
**Author:** ![constancecchen](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/constancecchen/32/71762_2.png) [@constancecchen](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/constancecchen)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2020, 3:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/seemingly-cant-connect-to-endpointbase-from-aws-server/250235/6 "2020-09-30T15:40:46Z")
Yes, `elasticsearch.host` should be whatever AWS server address you are hosting Elasticsearch itself on. I'm not totally sure what the setup is on your specific AWS instance (for example on Elastic Cloud, they're different URLs entirely), but if you're running Elasticsearch and Enterprise Search on the same server/box, then it's the same URL with a different port (likely `aws-server-adress:9200`, not 3000). > Do I have to open port 9200 as well? Yes, if your Elasticsearch instance is set to run on port 9200. I believe this is the default, so unless you've changed the default port in your elasticsearch.yml settings, you must expose this port publicly for Enterprise Search to be able to connect to it. ---
**Author:** ![spadel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@spadel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spadel)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2020, 4:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/seemingly-cant-connect-to-endpointbase-from-aws-server/250235/7 "2020-09-30T16:39:04Z")
Thank you a lot for your help. Unfortunately, I am still not making progress. Especially one thing is not clear to me: I can manage to host Elasticsearch and Enterprise Search on my local machine. When I installed Enterprise Search, I had to login on `localhost:3002/login` and create an engine. This is the engine I want to use, it is called "similarity-search". Now I installed Elasticsearch and Enterprise search on the AWS server. Again, after installing Enterprise Search I can login at localhost:3002/login, but this is another instance (or I don't know if that's the correct term here). Anyways, the engine "similarity-search" does not exist there. How can I use the instance and engine that already exists? I would have assumed, that there is an individual username or something, but the username to log in there is `enterprise_search` in both cases. A solution to me would have been, to just create a fresh engine on the AWS server. But this is not possible either, since I can only communicate over the terminal and in order to create an engine I need credentials, which I cannot see without the user interface of App Search. That's I want to connect to `localhost:3002/login` from my local machine, i.e. by `aws-server:3002/login` within my browser. But this leads to the error: `Failed to connect to ec2-XXXXX.eu-central-1.compute.amazonaws.com port 3002: Connection refused` I opened the following ports in my AWS security group: **Ingoing:** ``` 80 TCP 0.0.0.0/0 launch-wizard-7 80 TCP ::/0 launch-wizard-7 22 TCP 0.0.0.0/0 launch-wizard-7 5000 TCP 0.0.0.0/0 launch-wizard-7 5000 TCP ::/0 launch-wizard-7 3002 TCP 0.0.0.0/0 launch-wizard-7 3002 TCP ::/0 launch-wizard-7 3000 TCP 0.0.0.0/0 launch-wizard-7 3000 TCP ::/0 launch-wizard-7 443 TCP 0.0.0.0/0 launch-wizard-7 443 TCP ::/0 launch-wizard-7 9200 TCP 0.0.0.0/0 launch-wizard-7 9200 TCP ::/0 launch-wizard-7 ``` **Outgoing:** ``` All All 0.0.0.0/0 launch-wizard-7 ``` ---
**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:** [September 30, 2020, 5:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/seemingly-cant-connect-to-endpointbase-from-aws-server/250235/8 "2020-09-30T17:17:21Z")
Not answering to your exact problem, but why not just starting enterprise search from [cloud.elastic.co](http://cloud.elastic.co) in the same AWS region? You will have everything running in few seconds. You have 14 days for free to test it. ---
**Author:** ![spadel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@spadel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spadel)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2020, 5:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/seemingly-cant-connect-to-endpointbase-from-aws-server/250235/9 "2020-09-30T17:30:51Z")
On the one hand I unfortunately don't have the authority to decide that yet - apart from that, we are using Elasticsearch in a different way than it is built for. We interact with our own API and don't upload any documents for indexing. I am not sure if that is easily transferrable to the cloud. Anyways, it is working on my local machine. I don't understand how it can be so difficult to get it to run on an AWS server 😕 ---
**Author:** ![spadel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@spadel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spadel)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2020, 9:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/seemingly-cant-connect-to-endpointbase-from-aws-server/250235/10 "2020-10-02T09:20:45Z")
Anyone else can help? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![constancecchen](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/constancecchen/32/71762_2.png) [@constancecchen](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/constancecchen)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2020, 3:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/seemingly-cant-connect-to-endpointbase-from-aws-server/250235/11 "2020-10-08T15:38:33Z")
Super sorry for the delay on responding Spadel, it's been a busy week! > [@spadel](#): > > When I installed Enterprise Search, I had to login on `localhost:3002/login` and create an engine. This is the engine I want to use, it is called "similarity-search". I'm a little confused by your references back to your local machine. Just to make sure we're on the same page: Engines you create on localhost will not transfer to AWS. This is because they're stored on completely different Elasticsearch instances/"databases". > Anyways, the engine "similarity-search" does not exist there. How can I use the instance and engine that already exists? I really wouldn't try. Treat your localhost and your AWS instance (presumably production or staging) as separate instances. This is a general recommended developer best practice. > I would have assumed, that there is an individual username or something, but the username to log in there is `enterprise_search` in both cases. That's correct. `enterprise_search` is the default user on **all** Enterprise Search instances. You can create more users from there, but that is the default "owner"/admin. Please note that their passwords should however differ per-instance. > [@spadel](#): > > A solution to me would have been, to just create a fresh engine on the AWS server. But this is not possible either, since I can only communicate over the terminal and in order to create an engine I need credentials, which I cannot see without the user interface of App Search. Creating a fresh engine on the AWS server is the correct approach. I'm confused as to why you can't access App Search's interface. Does going to the :3002 port of your AWS server simply not work? Can you confirm that Enterprise Search is actually running? I'm going to be honest also, a lot of your issues sound like they're to do with the AWS platform (access/ports etc.), which our company doesn't specialize in - could I recommend contacting AWS's support to get help? (If you do so, I would make sure to be very clear also that you're using Elasticsearch from Elastic Inc., and that you're not using AWS Elasticsearch which is a completely separate product not owned by us). ---
**Author:** ![spadel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@spadel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spadel)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2020, 3:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/seemingly-cant-connect-to-endpointbase-from-aws-server/250235/12 "2020-10-20T15:19:14Z")
Thank you for your reply. I finally figured out, that it is **for sure** the settings in the config `.yml` files. I was able to experiment with it and make it work, but it is incredibly unstable and crashes the AWS machine. However, this happens only, when I start enterprise-search after elasticsearch. I am pretty sure, that I still haven't configured the yml files correctly. Can someone please take a look? Here are the relevant information: ``` Private DNS: ip-172-31-14-57.eu-central-1.compute.internal Private IPs: 172.31.14.57 Public DNS (IPv4): ec2-3-122-100-12.eu-central-1.compute.amazonaws.com IPv4 Public IP: 3.122.100.12 ``` The elasticsearch.yml looks currently as follows: ``` network.host: ec2-3-122-100-12.eu-central-1.compute.amazonaws.com http.port: 9200 discovery.seed_hosts: ["ec2-18-194-234-6.eu-central-1.compute.amazonaws.com:9300"] xpack.security.enabled: false discovery.type: single-node cluster.routing.allocation.disk.threshold_enabled: true xpack.security.authc.api_key.enabled: true xpack.security.http.ssl.enabled: true ``` I had to turn `xpack.security.enabled` off for the moment, because it produced an error. But I guess it's not related to the problem The enterprise-search.yml looks as follows: ``` secret_management.encryption_keys: [5322b64cf4260f9d94751a471e5921829f3b83cda9f..] ent_search.auth.source: standard allow_es_settings_modification: true elasticsearch.host: http://ec2-3-122-100-12.eu-central-1.compute.amazonaws.com:9200 elasticsearch.username: elastic elasticsearch.password: 9Xyj4hECTcih... ent_search.external_url: http://ec2-3-122-100-12.eu-central-1.compute.amazonaws:3002 ent_search.listen_host: 3.122.100.12 ent_search.listen_port: 3002 ``` Could someone please have a look and see what I am doing wrong? I would appreciate a lot, I ve spent countless hours trying to fix this whole projects. Thanks a lot!! ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Story](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sean_story/32/69987_2.png) [@Sean\_Story](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sean_Story)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2020, 5:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/seemingly-cant-connect-to-endpointbase-from-aws-server/250235/13 "2020-10-20T17:18:06Z")
Hi @spadel, The first thing that jumps out is your security settings for elasticsearch. `xpack.security.enabled` needs to be set to `true` as per [our documentation](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/enterprise-search/current/installation.html#installation-self-managed). Feel free to share the error you're hitting when you enable security. You can validate that elasticsearch is working by doing a: ```auto curl -XGET -u elastic: http://ec2-3-122-100-12.eu-central-1.compute.amazonaws.com:9200 ``` Note - you may need to change that to be `https` since your elasticsearch settings also show that you are running with SSL enabled. For your `enterprise_search.yml`, you don't need to provide `ent_search.external_url`, `ent_search.listen_host`, or `ent_search.listen_port`, all of those will default in an expected manner. Again, make sure your `elasticsearch.host` matches up with http vs https for if you're using SSL. Once you try these changes, please share what your error is, and what your resulting configurations are, and we can continue trying to assist you. ---
**Author:** ![spadel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@spadel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spadel)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2020, 5:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/seemingly-cant-connect-to-endpointbase-from-aws-server/250235/14 "2020-10-20T17:59:57Z")
Thanks @Sean_Story, when I just use ``` xpack.security.enabled: true xpack.security.authc.api_key.enabled: true ``` as stated in the documentation, I receive the following error: ``` uncaught exception in thread [main] java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: a key must be provided to run as a server. the key should be configured using the [xpack.security.http.ssl.key] or [xpack.security.http.ssl.keystore.path] setting at org.elasticsearch.xpack.security.transport.netty4.SecurityNetty4HttpServerTransport.(SecurityNetty4HttpServerTransport.java:51) at org.elasticsearch.xpack.security.Security.lambda$getHttpTransports$25(Security.java:1018) at org.elasticsearch.node.Node.newHttpTransport(Node.java:1145) at org.elasticsearch.node.Node.(Node.java:556) at org.elasticsearch.node.Node.(Node.java:277) at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap$5.(Bootstrap.java:227) at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.setup(Bootstrap.java:227) at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.init(Bootstrap.java:393) at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.init(Elasticsearch.java:170) at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.execute(Elasticsearch.java:161) at org.elasticsearch.cli.EnvironmentAwareCommand.execute(EnvironmentAwareCommand.java:86) at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.mainWithoutErrorHandling(Command.java:127) at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.main(Command.java:90) at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:126) at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:92) For complete error details, refer to the log at /home/ubuntu/elasticsearch-7.9.2/logs/elasticsearch.log [2020-10-20T17:57:21,273][INFO][o.e.x.m.p.NativeController] [ip-172-31-14-57] Native controller process has stopped - no new native processes can be started ``` ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Story](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sean_story/32/69987_2.png) [@Sean\_Story](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sean_Story)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2020, 8:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/seemingly-cant-connect-to-endpointbase-from-aws-server/250235/15 "2020-10-20T20:34:53Z")
Makes sense - that's because you have `xpack.security.http.ssl.enabled: true` set. You could change that to `xpack.security.http.ssl.enabled: false`, or you can read about how to create and configure your SSL keys/keystore/truststore/certificates etc: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/ssl-tls.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/ssl-tls.html) ---
**Author:** ![spadel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@spadel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spadel)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2020, 1:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/seemingly-cant-connect-to-endpointbase-from-aws-server/250235/16 "2020-10-21T13:37:45Z")
When I put that on `false` I receive: ``` ERROR: [1] bootstrap checks failed [1]: HTTPS is required in order to use the API key service; please enable HTTPS using the [xpack.security.http.ssl.enabled] setting or disable the API key service using the [xpack.security.authc.api_key.enabled] setting ``` But according to the documentation, `xpack.security.authc.api_key.enabled` should be `true`. ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Story](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sean_story/32/69987_2.png) [@Sean\_Story](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sean_Story)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2020, 3:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/seemingly-cant-connect-to-endpointbase-from-aws-server/250235/17 "2020-10-21T15:46:06Z")
Ah, looks like you're trying to run it in "production mode". It's definitely a best-practice security-wise to use SSL when transmitting secure data (like API keys). When you're ready for this to be a production system, you absolutely should enable SSL. But that will require you setting up your keys/certs/trustores/etc. When not running in "production mode", the `ERROR` that you're currently getting is just a `WARN` message, and doesn't block elasticsearch from starting. You can either switch back to development mode, or you can disable the bootstrapping checks. You can read about both here: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/master/bootstrap-checks.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/master/bootstrap-checks.html) As a side-note - getting a production-worthy setup, from scratch, is a non-trivial task. Especially when you're new to the stack. It's totally possible, and totally supported, we'll continue to assist along the way. But as @dadoonet [suggested above](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/seemingly-cant-connect-to-endpointbase-from-aws-server/250235/8), the turnkey approach to this is to use Elastic Cloud. This takes away all of the manual infrastructure overhead. ---
**Author:** ![spadel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@spadel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spadel)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2020, 10:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/seemingly-cant-connect-to-endpointbase-from-aws-server/250235/18 "2020-10-21T22:07:07Z")
Ahh very interesting, by adding `discovery.type: single-node` I can run Elasticsearch indeed. You said, that configuring the `enterprise_search.yml` with the correct `elasticsearch.host` would be enough and the rest would work by default. Unfortunately that's not the case, if I don't configure the file the way I did, it will run on the localhost and I can't access it from outside the server. And if I do configure it the way I did, I get back to the initial problem - after running enterprise-search some time, the server freezes and after a couple minutes the enterprise-search process is killed. ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Story](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sean_story/32/69987_2.png) [@Sean\_Story](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sean_Story)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2020, 2:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/seemingly-cant-connect-to-endpointbase-from-aws-server/250235/19 "2020-10-23T14:09:37Z")
@spadel can you share the logs/errors you get when you start the server with your hostname configured, and you observe the "server freezes and after a couple minutes the enterprise-search process is killed"? ---
**Author:** ![spadel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@spadel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spadel)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2020, 2:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/seemingly-cant-connect-to-endpointbase-from-aws-server/250235/20 "2020-10-30T14:20:54Z")
Just as a short update: I was finally able to make it work. The reason for the freeze was, that there was not enough RAM available. Our server had 4GB and we increased it to 32GB for the moment and it works fine. Moreover we are running it with `xpack.security.enabled` set as `false`, since our application is only for demonstration purposes. Thank you for the support @Sean_Story and @constancecchen, I appreciate it! [Next page](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/seemingly-cant-connect-to-endpointbase-from-aws-server/250235.md?page=2)