Elastic search Analyse API response with error

Question

I installed an Elastic Search Server (ES server), version 7.16.3, and I can't use (or play with) the analyse API mentioned here :

Test an analyser

I've got the response:

{
    "error": "Incorrect HTTP method for uri [/_analyse] and method [POST], allowed: [HEAD, PUT, GET, DELETE]",
    "status": 405
}

with their first request :

POST _analyze
{
  "analyzer": "whitespace",
  "text":     "The quick brown fox."
}

How do I make their example working on my local ES server ?

Answer 1

Correct endpoint for analyze API is localhost:9200/_analyze not localhost:9200/_analyse, and you are using the wrong name in the endpoint which is causing the issue.