I am following Tutorial: Installing a LAMP Web Server on Amazon Linux. My web server is started.
Now how do I access the website from my browser?
You will need to assign a Public IP address to your Amazon EC2 instance. This can be done at startup by enabling Auto-assign Public IP, or it can be done later by assigning an Elastic IP address:
Create an Elastic IP address in the Amazon EC2 console
Associate it to your Amazon EC2 instance
You will also want to check that the Security Group associated with your instance is permitting inbound HTTP traffic (port 80).
Then, just put the IP address of your instance into your web browser.
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I have an AWS environment where
for each client, there is a dedicated ec2 windows instance.
There is NO active directory; each ec2 instance is like in its own workgroup.
Each instance is deployed on its own dedicated VPC, security group etc.
Clients use RDP to connect from their site to the ec2 instances whenever required over port 3389.
The clients' ip addresses are known upfront and we open port 3389 to allow RDP connection.
Now we want to introduce the RDP using SSL (port 443)
The typical guides from Amazon and other books walk thru setting up a RD Gateway in a SEPARATE ec2 instance and use that as the jump box.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/quickstart/latest/rd-gateway/architecture.html#best-practices
This is all good except that,
I do not want to have an additional ec2 within each VPC.
(I understand that there are other options to have a centralized RD Gateway in its own vpc and then using VPC peering etc. But I don't want to go that route for various reasons).
So, my question is:
Is it possible to setup the RD gateway directly on the ec2 instance to
which I ultimately want to RDP into ? and use SSL(port 443) for
connecting thru RDP?
Thanks in advance.
I tried this out successfully. I created an EC2 windows 2016 server.
I installed RD gateway using the powershell command.
Install-WindowsFeature RDS-Gateway -IncludeManagementTools
Then I launched the RD gateway manager.
configured the CAP and RAP to allow my Remote Desktop Users to access any resource.
Used the ssl certificate which I created using certroot in linux.
From aws console, opened the port 443 in the security group to allow connections from my public to the ec2 instance. (No other ports were opened).
From my local computer, I setup a RDP connection such that:
The RD Gateway server setting had the RD gateway server name (ex. poc.mydomain.com)
This should match the ssl certificate.
The remote computer name was specified as "localhost" (implying that the same server needs to be connected to).
After providing the right credentials, I was connected the the ec2 instance using RDP.
I followed cloud guru's course to create a ec2 instance in aws. I installed apache webserver and created a static page. When I login to the ec2 instance and run the curl command (from within ec2 instance) using "Public DNS (IPv4)" address , I am able to view the page in browser. However when I try to open it in my browser, I am unable to view. I did not make any changes to outbound rules in my security group.
I am unable to access the page using the public ipv4 ipaddress both from within ec2 and outside.
I can't comment due to new user. This seems "security group" inbound rule issues. Did you open port 80 in security group "inbound"?
When you use "public IP" even from EC2 box, that will be considered as traffic from internet and if your security group is not configured to accept (inbound) traffic from internet, you can't access the website available on port.
NOTE: Suggest to open port to "MyIP" instead of "whole world".
I am new to Amazon Web service. I created an Ubuntu 16 instance with AWS. Installed Apache and restarted the service. But still I am unable to figure out how to access the start page from a browser. Which IP address should I use? Public ip or elastic ip? Also do I need to change any configuration file? Thanks.
You need to use the public IP address, depending on your usecase you can even use an elastic IP address.
However you need to configure your security groups in order to access the web page.
Go to your security groups
Select the relevant security group
Add inbound rule to port 80 (TCP)
Then you will be able to access the page. Please refer this guide for more information.
You can use public ip / public DNS. These both will change upon restart of an instance. Elastic IP is useful when you want your IP address to be persistent. e.g. To make an entry in your domain DNS records.
Make sure your default site is pointing to correct directory as you are going to access using IP address.
If your instance is in VPC then it must be in public subnet. (subnet with Internet Gateway route attached)
I have created a Virtual Machine in Bluemix. I have installed NGINX web server on it. To access the web application that is deployed on NGINX, should I use a public IP address (for e.g. http://123.456.78.9) or is there a domain name associated with the instance (something like http://abcxyz.bluemix.net)?
When you launch any VM in cloud by default they should be not accessible from public internet unless you attach a public ip address to them.
Once you have attached a public ip address to your instance and configured the firewalls to allow incoming connections (http, ssh etc) you can update your DNS server to redirect traffic there.
AWS create a public FQDN at the time of launching the ec2 instances as
ec2-nn-nn-nn-nn-region-compute.com (where nn are ip address bits), not sure any similar thing with bluemix but it is less likely to have abcxyz.bluemix.
Currently I have two websites running on single Amazon EC2 and using Apache web server. Configuring Apache to use virtual host and use a single IP address was simple . But I think Amazon gives you up to 5 IP addresses and would like attach two IP addresses to a single EC2 instance and use those IP addresses for each site.
How do I configure the server that Website A uses one of the IP address for incoming and outgoing data?
Unfortunately, you can only map 1 elastic IP per instance. Its a nasty limitation, because I would love to setup multiple sites using SSL with default port of 443 but I cannot. I usually just use other ports if I have to, but that is not best practice.
The associated elastic IP to the one instance is free. You can set that up in the management console or through the API. Your server should come with its own internal IP address, and the elastic IP gets translated to that.
There are things that you can do with AWS load balancing, which allow you to use multiple ssl sites to one instance.
You can now do this if you run your instance in a VPC.
You can create multiple ENIs (Elastic Network Interfaces) and associate any number of them with a single instance.
The announcement for this feature is at http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/07/multiple-ip-addresses-for-ec2-instances-in-a-virtual-private-cloud.html