My AWS EC2 VM is not receiving HTTP from an external browser to the elastic IP of my EC2 instance

Question

Problem

Can't browse my web app on my new AWS EC2 VM. Wireshark on VM, shows a little HTTP activity, but nothing when I browse my URL or its elastic IP from an external browser (at my home office).

My Setup

My ASP.NET Web app is running on my AWS EC2 virtual server with Windows Server 2016 64-bit. I configured IIS. I set up an Elastic IP, which shows up in my AWS console instance. I did nothing special with firewall

Background

My web app has worked ok on AZURE for years, and now I want to move it to AWS.

Have you created a security group rule that will allow that kind of traffic to the instance? — Spooler, Jan 05 '19 at 18:31
Also, posting your configurations would help to identify problems. I can at best guess given the data provided. — Spooler, Jan 05 '19 at 18:32
No I have not. I will now investigate. (lots of online doc on how to) — Doug Null, Jan 05 '19 at 18:37
That worked! But now I get: 403 - Forbidden: Access is denied. You do not have permission to view this directory or page using the credentials that you supplied. — Doug Null, Jan 05 '19 at 19:10
This is a misconfiguration on your side. Errors 4xx are server-side errors. — Itai Ganot, Jan 05 '19 at 19:28
Please edit your question to include the detailed error message from the error logs, as well as relevant configuration. — Tim, Jan 06 '19 at 02:22

Doug Null · Accepted Answer · 2019-01-26T18:17:56.777

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Spooler's hypothesis was correct.

Solution is to update security group, and that fixes it.

edited Jan 26 '19 at 18:17

answered Jan 12 '19 at 14:01

Doug Null

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My AWS EC2 VM is not receiving HTTP from an external browser to the elastic IP of my EC2 instance

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