# Why is this so complicated?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-is-this-so-complicated/5222>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 23, 2011, 12:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-is-this-so-complicated/5222 "2011-08-23T00:41:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![bcreech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ba8739/32.png) [@bcreech](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bcreech)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2011, 12:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-is-this-so-complicated/5222/1 "2011-08-23T00:41:43Z")

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curl -XPUT '[http://localhost:9200/index/](http://localhost:9200/index/)' -d '  
{  
"filename" : "0", "filename2" : "zero"  
}'

{"error":"IndexAlreadyExistsException[[index] Already exists]","status":400}

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 3:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-is-this-so-complicated/5222/2 "2017-07-06T03:56:19Z")

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