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I'm unable to get from the internet to a web page hosted on my server in a private subnet.

Using this: How can I place a Webserver in a private subnet in AWS and open it to the world on port 80 as a guide, I've got the following configuration in place:

  • VPC w/ 1 public and private subnet (both are in same AZ).
  • Public subnet has route table with local and IGW routes
  • Private subnet has route table with local and NAT Gateway routes
  • EC2 Instance deployed in private subnet serving up static HTML pages
  • Confirmed EC2 instance can get out to internet
  • ELB pointing (ports 80/443) to EC2 private instance
  • (For testing) ELB security group and EC2 SG are set to allow all inbound/outbound traffic
  • ELB health check is good
  • R53 (A record) for testing subdomain which points to my ELB

With everything supposedly operational and open, I can't determine why the page isn't served back to the user. Chrome just spins and Firefox says the connection was reset. Any advice on how to troubleshoot this?

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  • Which subnet did you place the ELB itself on? It needs to be on the public subnet, not private. Feb 8, 2016 at 19:45
  • ELB is in my public subnet.
    – user464180
    Feb 9, 2016 at 1:12
  • What happens if you go to the elastic beanstalk URL provided? Feb 9, 2016 at 2:02
  • Route 53 A record pointing to ELB is wrong. It should be a CNAME or an Alias. Feb 9, 2016 at 2:03
  • Attempting to go to the ELB URL yields a "No Data Received" error in Chrome. The A record in R53 is set as an alias target of the ELB...and doesn't work. If I switch it to CNAME, it doesn't allow the ELB to be set as the target.
    – user464180
    Feb 9, 2016 at 13:29

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Following this: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ElasticLoadBalancing/latest/DeveloperGuide/elb-security-groups.html#elb-vpc-security-groups , specifically the section: Internet-facing Load Balancer: Recommended Rules

I needed to update the outbound rules of my ELB to use my instance security group.

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You're going to need to put the ELB in a subnet that has a route to an Internet Gateway (Your public subnet). Here's an AWS forums post with more details: https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?messageID=415184&#415184

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  • My ELB is in my public subnet which has a route to the IGW. Thanks.
    – user464180
    Feb 9, 2016 at 1:13

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