How do I enable remote access/request in Elasticsearch 2.0?

Question

Starting from v2.0 Elasticsearch is listening only on localhost by default, but I\'d like to make request outside localhost.

For example, a request like this is allo

Answer 1

For ElasticSearch 7.8 and up

Check if you're on single node. add following line

cluster.initial_master_nodes: node-1

To access the Elasticsearch server from another computer or application, make the following changes to the node’s C:\ProgramData\Elastic\Elasticsearch\config\elasticsearch.yml file:

Add following lines

network.host: ["0.0.0.0", 127.0.0.1", "[::1]"]
network.bind_host: 0.0.0.0
network.publish_host: 0.0.0.0
http.host: 0.0.0.0

Some time you might need to Enable CORS

http.cors.enabled : true
http.cors.allow-origin : "*"
http.cors.allow-methods : OPTIONS, HEAD, GET, POST, PUT, DELETE
http.cors.allow-headers : X-Requested-With,X-Auth-Token,Content-Type, Content-Length

Here is my full yml file

bootstrap.memory_lock: false
cluster.name: elasticsearch
http.port: 9200
node.data: true
node.ingest: true
node.master: true
node.max_local_storage_nodes: 1
cluster.initial_master_nodes: node-1
node.name: ITDEV
path.data: C:\ProgramData\Elastic\Elasticsearch\data
path.logs: C:\ProgramData\Elastic\Elasticsearch\logs
transport.tcp.port: 9300
xpack.license.self_generated.type: basic
xpack.security.enabled: false
network.host: ["0.0.0.0", 127.0.0.1", "[::1]"]
network.bind_host: 0.0.0.0
network.publish_host: 0.0.0.0
http.host: 0.0.0.0
http.cors.enabled : true
http.cors.allow-origin : "*"
http.cors.allow-methods : OPTIONS, HEAD, GET, POST, PUT, DELETE
http.cors.allow-headers : X-Requested-With,X-Auth-Token,Content-Type, Content-Length