# AWS connection has timed out
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/aws-connection-has-timed-out/144681
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [March 18, 2020, 6:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/aws-connection-has-timed-out/144681 "2020-03-18T06:52:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@papertrail-ai](https://meta.discourse.org/u/papertrail-ai)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2020, 6:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/aws-connection-has-timed-out/144681/1 "2020-03-18T06:52:48Z")
I have recently opted to do a self-host of discourse on aws.
I followed all the instructions on the github page. I receive a connection timeout error. The installation works fine. The DNS A record is set up correctly and my host has confirmed that it works.
On aws my instance is a Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS (HVM), SSD Volume Type with 2GB and 1vCPU.
Every time I access the page I receive a connection timeout error.
Please help.
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### Author:  [@schleifer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/schleifer)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2020, 2:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/aws-connection-has-timed-out/144681/2 "2020-03-18T14:19:11Z")
Have you configured the security group to allow access?
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### Author:  [@papertrail-ai](https://meta.discourse.org/u/papertrail-ai)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2020, 4:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/aws-connection-has-timed-out/144681/3 "2020-03-18T16:45:53Z")
Thanks so much, I edited the security group to allow inbound and outbound on All traffic. I am now receiving the following error:
Unable to connect
Firefox can’t establish a connection to the server at
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### Author:  [@schleifer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/schleifer)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2020, 4:05am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/aws-connection-has-timed-out/144681/4 "2020-03-19T04:05:11Z")
That error suggests the discourse container is not running.
- Does it show up in the docker process list?
- Does `curl localhost` connect successfully?
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### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2020, 4:18am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/aws-connection-has-timed-out/144681/5 "2020-03-19T04:18:28Z")
Have you rebuilt since editing the security group?
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### Author:  [@papertrail-ai](https://meta.discourse.org/u/papertrail-ai)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2020, 7:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/aws-connection-has-timed-out/144681/6 "2020-03-19T19:03:06Z")
Thanks so much. You guys lead me in the right direction.
The security group was wrong. Curl localhost was also not connecting. After which I released that the docker installation did not work correctly. The default memory size for my instance on aws was to small and as a result docker was not being installed correctly.
Curl localhost now shows
```plaintext
301 Moved Permanently
301 Moved Permanently
nginx/1.17.4
```
Docker process list shows the following:
```plaintext
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
646fd4d2 local_discourse/app "/sbin/boot" 6 minutes ago Up 6 minutes 0.0.0.0:80->80/tcp, 0.0.0.0:443->443/tcp app
```
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### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2020, 9:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/aws-connection-has-timed-out/144681/7 "2020-03-19T21:24:18Z")
Are you able to share the address for your community?
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### Author:  [@papertrail-ai](https://meta.discourse.org/u/papertrail-ai)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2020, 9:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/aws-connection-has-timed-out/144681/8 "2020-03-20T09:24:00Z")
Thanks it started working this morning. Thanks so much for all the help.