How can I access my application from the public IP of AWS? - amazon-web-services

Whenever I tried to access to my deployed application on an EC2 instance of AWS using the public IP, I get the following messages on Chrome: "This site can’t be reached
ec2-54-194-153-202.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com took too long to respond."
then, What changes shall I apply in order to grant access to the application properly ?,
Thank you,

The first thing to check in this case is The Security-Group inbound rules attached to your Ec2.
If your application is running behind a webserver like Nginx or Apache, check that your security_group is open in inbound for the public range (0.0.0.0/0) on the http port (80).
You can get this info on the Ec2 panel, click on your instance and check the attached security_group, click on it and check the inbound rules.
Here is a guide for you.
Notice : If nothing is running on your Ec2 it will never respond, be sure your app is served by a Nginx/Apache/Tomcat daemon.
Hope it helps !

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Can't reach to an AWS EC2 instance website

I just launched a instance on AWS and I'm trying to open the website. So I copy the Public IPv4 address and paste it on my page. But it always returns This site can’t be reached 35.78.183.239 took too long to respond.
I've changed my firewall setting to access google chrome and set security groups HTTP, HTTPS. I can't figure out where the problem is. Any suggestions?
You didn't specify what webserver or AMI is on your EC2 instance.
You need to setup an AMI or manually install and setup a webserver for anything to show, otherwise the EC2 instance, while reachable, will not respond.
Make sure that ssh access is enabled and try ssh into the machine. If you can successfully login, then you know the instance is reachable and the problem is with your webserver software. This will help you debug.
What port is your application running on? When you enable HTTP and HTTPS it only allows ports 80 and 443 on the security group. This won't help if your application runs on a different port, so you'll need to add that to your security group to allow inbound traffic.

EC2 instance refused to connect

I have a site built on NodeJS, which I am currently trying to deploy on the free tier on AWS.
So far I have created an instance, launched it, I can connect via SSH (console) to my instance, and have successfully pulled my files from my Git repository. However, when I try to browse my public DNS, I get: http://ec2-13-234-136-30.ap-south-1.compute.amazonaws.com:2222 took too long to respond.
I have also had a look at the settings on security group (as recommended on a different post) and ensured that inbound and outbound 'HTTP' and 'HTTPS' traffic are allowed (screenshot below):
Inbound settings: Inbound settings
Outbound settings: enter image description here
Any ideas on what else could be causing this issue? I would greatly appreciate your help. Thanks.
Your security configuration is too permissive, please limit to the port and protocols you are using.
Given that your firewall is off, which you should definitely check to confirm,
I guess you start NodeJs server binding to hostname 127.0.0.1, which allows only local traffics from EC2 instance.
Try changing it to 0.0.0.0, which allows public traffic and see if that solves your problem.

AWS EC2 instance "This site can't be reached", though I do have the ports 80 and 443 open

I have been looking for help with this problem, and the answers just say to add inbound rules to the security group. Well, I have done those and I am still unable to access my website from the public DNS (just putting that into the url box and navigating to it). There are multiple port 22 inbound rules for the people accessing my server, and the outbound rule is just "All traffic".
I've had this problem running Wordpress on EC2 instances. Things I'd try:
Access the instance via ssh. Check out https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/AccessingInstancesLinux.html
If you're accessing through ssh, maybe it's because your disk is full. To check this you can run df -h on your Amazon EC2 server.
I tried accessing my newly setup AWS EC2 Instance and I had this same issue, I later realised I was accessing the public DNS via HTTPS which had not been set up. when I changed the url to use HTTP it worked. Ensure to configure HTTP in the security group.

Whitelist AWS self in inbound connection

I am deploying a laravel installation in AWS, everything runs perfectly when I allow it to recieve all inbound traffic (EC2>Network&Security>Security Groups>Edit inbound rules.), if I turn off inbound traffic and limit it to an IP it doesnt load the webpage it gives me this error:
PDO Exception SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] Connection timed out
However for security reasons I dont want this setup like this, I dont want anyone being able to even try to reach my webapp. Everything is being hosted in AWS, I dont have any external entities, its running in RDS and EC2. I added en elastic IP address and whitelisted it, but that didnt work either. I followed every step in this tutorial : http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/php-laravel-tutorial.html#php-laravel-tutorial-generate
Environmental variables are working as well as dependencies, well.. pretty much everything unless I restrict inbound traffic as I mentioned.
How do I whitelist AWS own instance then to make this work with better security?
Thank you!
I think part of this answer is what you may be looking for.
You should enable inbound access from the EC2 security group associated with your EC2 instance, instead of the EC2 IP address.
More than just adding an elastic IP address to your AWS instance you need to do two more things.
Assign the elastic IP to your AWS instance ( yes is not the same as just adding it to the instance, you must specify )
White list the internal IP that it generates once you link it to your app.
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Why Amazon EC2 is not accessible using ping?

I've been using AWS for a few months without any problem. But from yesterday, I can't access the website. When I ping the IP (52.24.23.108) it displays request time out. Server's status is okay - that I checked from AWS console. Isn't it a network problem of Amazon Webservices?
You need to enable the specified network traffic type (ICMP) through your security groups for your instance. You can do this by choosing Security Groups > select your security group and choose Edit Inbound Rules
Choose "ICMP" from the dropdown and source (* if you want it from everywhere) then Add Rule
PINGs should work!
A couple things could cause this, most likely you provisioned the instance with a public IP, by NOT a n elastic IP. If you had a server restart, either by your doing or by AWS, then your public IP would be dropped. If you did use a elastic IP, then look at your security group to see if you allow icmp still or if the security group changed.
Another cause may be if a server level firewall had been disabled in the past, but if your server went through a restart it may have started again. What base OS are you using?