# Connection is timing out
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/connection-is-timing-out/241361
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Tags:** hosting
**Created:** [October 8, 2022, 8:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/connection-is-timing-out/241361 "2022-10-08T20:34:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@darkpixlz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/darkpixlz)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2022, 8:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/connection-is-timing-out/241361/1 "2022-10-08T20:34:56Z")
Hello,
When I tried making an instance on AWS and connected it all correctly, my instance is timing out, not allowing me to connect to it.
The website is [https://test.darkpixlz.tk](https://test.darkpixlz.tk), and the server claims it’s running.
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### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2022, 8:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/connection-is-timing-out/241361/2 "2022-10-08T20:44:12Z")
What did you do to make the server available externally? Did `discourse-setup` do the connectivity check, or did you bypass it?
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### Author:  [@darkpixlz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/darkpixlz)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2022, 8:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/connection-is-timing-out/241361/3 "2022-10-08T20:44:54Z")
I’m running the public IP through Cloudflare to access through the domain, and yes it passed.
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### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2022, 8:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/connection-is-timing-out/241361/4 "2022-10-08T20:45:28Z")
So you set up specific access rules for 80 and 443?
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### Author:  [@darkpixlz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/darkpixlz)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2022, 8:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/connection-is-timing-out/241361/5 "2022-10-08T20:46:43Z")
No, was never made aware on how to do that. I just have an A record pointing to the server’s IP.
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### Author:  [@RGJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RGJ)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2022, 9:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/connection-is-timing-out/241361/6 "2022-10-08T21:08:55Z")
So what happens if you switch it to “DNS only”? Does it start working then?
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### Author:  [@darkpixlz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/darkpixlz)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2022, 9:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/connection-is-timing-out/241361/7 "2022-10-08T21:09:29Z")
When I was doing that I was getting my browser’s “Connection Timed Out” screen.
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2022, 9:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/connection-is-timing-out/241361/8 "2022-10-08T21:17:34Z")
> [@darkpixlz](#):
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> an instance on AWS
Have you configured the EC2 instance security group in order to allow ingress traffic on the ports 80/443?
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### Author:  [@darkpixlz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/darkpixlz)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2022, 9:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/connection-is-timing-out/241361/9 "2022-10-08T21:19:05Z")
I believe I have
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### Author:  [@darkpixlz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/darkpixlz)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2022, 10:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/connection-is-timing-out/241361/10 "2022-10-08T22:12:01Z")
Yeah, it’s definitely connecting, because when I went to rebuild it says the server is down which si correct, but when it goes it it just times out.
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### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2022, 11:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/connection-is-timing-out/241361/11 "2022-10-08T23:51:16Z")
That just means Cloudflare can’t contact an upstream server. Turn off the orange cloud.
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### Author:  [@darkpixlz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/darkpixlz)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2022, 11:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/connection-is-timing-out/241361/12 "2022-10-08T23:52:12Z")
I was able to get it working, I just had to make another instance, then use HTTP.
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### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2022, 11:18am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/connection-is-timing-out/241361/13 "2022-10-09T11:18:41Z")
That shouldn’t be necessary.
Did you try to build the instance more than once prior to fixing the access rules? If so it’s possible Let’s Encrypt put your hostname on a seven day cooldown.