I'm brand new to AWS and web servers, using nginx for this project & MERN stack for the code. Anyways I got my website up and running using this tutorial, and used this tutorial (uses letsencrypt and certbot) to try to add SSL to my website, which was working fine in standard http. Now when I attempt to access the site it times out and chrome shows This site can’t be reached www.instaspots.net took too long to respond.
My nginx config file looks like
server_name instaspots.net;
add_header Content-Security-Policy upgrade-insecure-requests;
# react app & front-end files
location / {
root /opt/frontend/build;
try_files $uri /index.html;
}
# node api reverse proxy
location /items/ {
proxy_pass http://localhost:4000/;
}
listen 443 ssl; # managed by Certbot
ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/instaspots.net/fullchain.pem; # managed by Certbot
ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/instaspots.net/privkey.pem; # managed by Certbot
include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-nginx.conf; # managed by Certbot
ssl_dhparam /etc/letsencrypt/ssl-dhparams.pem; # managed by Certbot
}
server {
server_name www.instaspots.net; # managed by Certbot
add_header Content-Security-Policy upgrade-insecure-requests;
# react app & front-end files
location / {
root /opt/frontend/build;
try_files $uri /index.html;
}
# node api reverse proxy
location /items/ {
proxy_pass http://localhost:4000/;
}
listen 443 ssl; # managed by Certbot
ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/instaspots.net/fullchain.pem; # managed by Certbot
ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/instaspots.net/privkey.pem; # managed by Certbot
include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-nginx.conf; # managed by Certbot
ssl_dhparam /etc/letsencrypt/ssl-dhparams.pem; # managed by Certbot
}server {
if ($host = instaspots.net) {
return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
} # managed by Certbot
listen 80 default_server;
server_name instaspots.net;
return 404; # managed by Certbot
}server {
if ($host = www.instaspots.net) {
return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
} # managed by Certbot
listen 80 ;
server_name www.instaspots.net;
return 404; # managed by Certbot
}
sudo netstat -plnt | grep nginx returns
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:443 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 62312/nginx: master
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:80 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 62312/nginx: master
which all seems fine, but someone else debugging this used nc -zv instaspots.net 443 but when I try that it returns connectx to instaspots.net port 443 (tcp) failed: Operation timed out leading me to believe this may help point to the problem. Unfortunately my debugging skills are lacking when it comes to sysadmin things, so if anyone could guide me on debugging this I would be very thankful.
