By default it should bind to all local addresses. So, assuming you don't have a network layer issue with firewalls, the only ES setting I can think to check is network.bind_host and make sure it is either not set or is set to 0.0.0.0 or ::0 or to the correct IP address for your network. Update: ...

Tried everything on this page, and only instructions from here helped. in /etc/default/elasticsearch, make sure these are un-commented: START_DAEMON=true ES_USER=elasticsearch ES_GROUP=elasticsearch LOG_DIR=/var/log/elasticsearch DATA_DIR=/var/lib/elasticsearch WORK_DIR=/tmp/elasticsearch CONF_...

In my case elasticsearch was started. But still had curl: (7) Failed to connect to localhost port 9200: Connection refused The following command was unsuccessful sudo service elasticsearch restart In order to make it work, I had to run instead sudo systemctl restart elasticsearch Then i...