Can't access site on EC2 instance via public ip
Did you enable the http port to all ips? That would be done by going to:
EC2 -> Security Group -> Default (or your custome one) -> Inbound
And then Create a new rule for HTTP and as a source, you should assign: 0.0.0.0/0
That should do it.
Think the AWS UI may have been updated but based on Deleteman's answer
- Login to EC2 Dashboard
- Instances > Instances
- Actions dropdown > Networking > Change security groups
- You will probably see that you only have launch-wizard-1 allowed which for me only allowed SSH access on port 22
So as Deleteman mentions, you may need to alter your security groups...
- Login to EC2 Dashboard
- Network and Security > Security Groups
- Remove any filters that may be in the search box to show all groups
- Personally I edited the default VPC security group as this is a sandbox for me, I imagine you'll want to create a security group for your project
- Select the security group checkbox, select actions dropdown and click "edit the inbound rules", I used the following inbound rules just to be sure it was all working
- When you revisit Instances > Instances > Description, you should see the security groups and the rules
- Once you are happy it's working I would probably replace all traffic with HTTP and HTTPS if that's all that is needed
I was here earlier looking for a solution to a similar problem I was having. It turns out in my case that the EC2 instance also had its own firewall running in addition to the EC2 security group. The command 'system-config-firewall' let me get in to open the ports. Ports 80 (HTTP) and 3306 (MySQL) were not open by default. 22 (SSH) was open. I also had to do 'yum install system-config-firewall'.
To summarize, my solution was:
> yum install system-config-firewall> system-config-firewall