I’m trying to migrate an instance of Discourse form Digital Ocean over to an AWS EC2. The installation of the new instance seems to work without a hitch, however the EC2 discourse instance seems to be unreachable from my browser. Any idea what this could be causing this and what a fix might be?

[imagem] auryn_macmillan: I’m running Ubuntu 16.04 I only really work with RHEL distros, but you can try this command to see if there’s a firewall running: sudo ufw status verbose If it’s running, this command will disable it: sudo ufw disable

I’m open to trying a different distro, I’ve been wanting an excuse to play with some others anyway.

sudo ufw status verbose Status: inactive

[imagem] auryn_macmillan: I’m open to trying a different distro, I’ve been wanting an excuse to play with some others anyway. I’d hate for you to provision a new EC2 and run into the same issue. Can you post a screenshot of your security group rules? If you do rebuild, I recommend CentOS ove…

[imagem] I’ll try a rebuild on CentOS later tonight and will let you guys know how I go.

Alright, so I just went through the install process on a fresh CentOS 7 EC2. Everything seems to have gone smoothly, although I do notice a something weird: $ ./launcher start app which: no docker.io in (/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin) 6dd44a3a02af Nothing to do, your container has already started! …

[imagem] auryn_macmillan: which: no docker.io in (/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin) I get this error, too. It’s not a problem because the launcher locates the Docker binary elsewhere. [imagem] auryn_macmillan: Anyway, this instance seems to be suffering the same problem. So I’m guessing thi…

Incoming rules: [imagem] Outgoing rules: [imagem] Confirmation that the EC2 is using this security group: [imagem]

Bizarre. And you can still SSH in, but not connect on any port besides 22? If you want, you can PM me the credentials for a temporary account and I can log in to have a quick look around. I don’t mind if you can do it before I leave for a New Year’s party. :slight_smile: Otherwise, you can open a t…

Yeah it’s really bizarre. Will DM you.

Discourse instance unreachable on AWS

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auryn_macmillan (Auryn Macmillan) 8 Fevereiro , 2017 00:25 28

@DanielMarquard & @CaptainChemist thanks for the help! Finally got my server migrated over to AWS and everything seems to be working a treat.

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