Elasticsearch is not running in browser

Question

I have downloaded the Elasticsearch 8.1 in my Ubuntu. After successful installation, when I execute

curl -u elastic https://127.0.0.1:9200 -k

It is showing expected elasticsearch response. But when I hit http://127.0.0.1:9200/ or http://localhost:9200 in my browser, it is returning

After installation, I added network.host: 127.0.0.1 to elasticsearch.yml

Can anybody help me, why it is not running in browser ?

I am using Ubuntu 20 OS & following this Doc

Answer 1

As of version 8.0, Elasticsearch security is turned on by default and SSL/TLS is required for HTTP communications.

There are at least two options:

1. call https:// - as you did successfully via curl

2. disable HTTP security, but that's discouraged.

Answer 2

Like others mentioned, from version 8.0 security is turned on by default. But if you just want to quickly set up elasticsearch locally (and so security is not a concern) you can disable security:

1. go into config folder
2. open the elasticsearch.yml file and paste the following lines at the end:

xpack.security.enabled: false
xpack.security.transport.ssl.enabled: false
xpack.security.http.ssl.enabled: false

3. finally just restart elasticsearch

Now you should be able to open http://127.0.0.1:9200 without login prompts (in the browser) and curl/postman, etc and get proper 200 responses.

Answer 3

just put this url :

https://localhost:9200/

It run on the https, I hope it is helpfull.

Answer 4

I am using the windows platform, the steps are the same. When you run the elasticsearch.bat in cmd

use this port for elasticsearch HTTPS secure https://localhost:9200/

check the username and password scroll down the cmd running elasticsearch

After login into the elasticsearch. Hurry...

Thanks

But

the best solution is to use Docker Image of ELK stack which is easy instead of downloading the E L K and then run on the local machine.