website Hosted on Ec2 not responding, what happened with My instance?

Question

On Friday I hosted a WordPress site on my micro instance - I installed LAMP stack, and WordPress on it.

Instance state is Running, but when I try to access website with public domain given in console, it says

web page Not available

I have set an Outbound rule to allow everyone and Inbound rule for my IP address only.

This is about accessing website from outside world, but when I try to connect to my instance with JAVA Interface, MindTerm Web SSH, it says

Network connection timeout error

Can't figure out anything, Just started working on AWS.

Answer 1

I think you have confused the Outbound and Inbound rules - Outbound means traffic going out from the server, while Inbound means traffic from the internet to the server.

As you say, you added an Inbound rule for your IP address only, and you can access the website from you IP only, just like you requested.

Add an Inbound rule for port 80 for0.0.0.0/0, and you should be able to access the site from other locations as well.

If you need to open it to HTTP and SSH, open it for both for 0.0.0.0/0:

Answer 2

Please verify your settings and permission based on this :

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/TroubleshootingInstancesConnecting.html

You might also want to check your firewall, in case that is blocking the access..