Can't Connect to Elasticsearch (through Curl)

Question

I\'ve recently installed Elasticsearch and everything was working well for the first few days, but somehow today it stopped working

When I start the service, it claims t

Answer 1

curl -GET http://127.0.0.1:9200 is the wrong command.

Try curl -XGET http://127.0.0.1:9200. It should return the short info about your running local node and status 200. If that doesn't work then something else must be wrong.