# Templates are not updated
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/templates-are-not-updated/17928
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [June 5, 2014, 12:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/templates-are-not-updated/17928 "2014-06-05T12:45:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Bernhard\_Berger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bernhard_Berger)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2014, 12:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/templates-are-not-updated/17928/1 "2014-06-05T12:45:43Z")
The templates from "localhost:9200/\_template" get not updated with the
configured one, even when I create an index.
I am not sure, is this is a bug?
Steps to reproduce:
1. Create in a fresh Elasticsearch 1.2.1 installation the file
"config/templates/template\_1.json" like in this example
[http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/indices-templates.html#config](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/indices-templates.html#config)
2. Start Elasticsearch
3. Create an index:
curl localhost:9200/test
4. Check that the mapping is used from our template\_1:
curl localhost:9200/\_mapping/
5. ...but the templates are not updated:
curl localhost:9200/\_template/
-\> Empty result - is this a bug?
In my app I just want to check if the user has installed Elasticsearch
with the correct templates. - But localhost:9200/\_template/ seems only
to work after documents has already been indexed when using the config
directory for templates.
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### Author:  [@Antonio\_Augusto\_Sant](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Antonio_Augusto_Sant)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2014, 1:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/templates-are-not-updated/17928/2 "2014-06-05T13:05:25Z")
AFAIK the templates that lives on the filesystem are not put on "\_template".
Also, you can update the template on the FS without restarting ES and it
will get the new info there.
On Thursday, June 5, 2014 9:45:53 AM UTC-3, Bernhard Berger wrote:
> The templates from "localhost:9200/\_template" get not updated with the
> configured one, even when I create an index.
> I am not sure, is this is a bug?
>
> Steps to reproduce:
>
> 1. Create in a fresh Elasticsearch 1.2.1 installation the file
> "config/templates/template\_1.json" like in this example
>
> [Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/indices-templates.html#config)
>
> 1. Start Elasticsearch
>
> 2. Create an index:
> curl localhost:9200/test
>
> 3. Check that the mapping is used from our template\_1:
> curl localhost:9200/\_mapping/
>
> 4. ...but the templates are not updated:
> curl localhost:9200/\_template/
> -\> Empty result - is this a bug?
>
> In my app I just want to check if the user has installed Elasticsearch
> with the correct templates. - But localhost:9200/\_template/ seems only
> to work after documents has already been indexed when using the config
> directory for templates.
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### Author:  [@Bernhard\_Berger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bernhard_Berger)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2014, 1:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/templates-are-not-updated/17928/3 "2014-06-05T13:39:08Z")
Thanks, that was an unexpected behaviour for me. I will avoid filesystem
templates in the future and directly PUT templates in my application to
Elasticsearch.
Am 05.06.2014 15:05, schrieb Antonio Augusto Santos:
> AFAIK the templates that lives on the filesystem are not put on
> "\_template".
> Also, you can update the template on the FS without restarting ES and
> it will get the new info there.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/templates-are-not-updated/17928/4 "2017-07-06T01:24:28Z")