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I am trying to install apache2 on my EC2 instance.

I did the following steps: Launched an Ubuntu 16.4 instance with security group details

  • http - 80 - anywhere
  • https - 443 - anywhere

Once I login to my instance I did

sudo apt update sudo apt install apache2

when I type

service apache2 status

it says that Apache is running

I assumed that after this if I go to my public IP address [xxx.xx.xx.xx] I would see the default apache server page. But I see This site can't be reached.

The process seems pretty straightforward, what am I doing wrong?

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    Does curl -I http://localhost return a 200 status? If yes, I'd check that the host is in a public subnet in your VPC, check if a host-based firewall is blocking the port, etc. Commented Sep 9, 2018 at 1:52
  • show us netstat -plnt. If there's nothing on port 80 and 443 then your apache config must be lame. Commented Sep 10, 2018 at 19:28

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I had this stupid case, it made me reinstall dozens of times. Maybe my Security groups don't allow https://

Replace https:// with http:// if available.

It will work perfectly.

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I had the same problem with newly EC2 instance. You should check your both instance's security group protocol configuration and instance's port itself. Both need to be open.

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