did you run with the -p option? else you should connect to port 8000, i.e: http://your.aws.ip:8000/welcome
check the output of: netstart -tanp | grep 80 mic 2016-01-23 8:46 GMT+01:00 Dave S <snidely....@gmail.com>: > I'm trying to set up a demo on an AWS free-tier linux system. I'm running > web2py in shake-the-box mode (sorry, model railroad talk ... I mean, "using > the easy-to-assemble kit"), including the Rocket server. Installation was > easy, I successfully untarred my app's w2p bundle, and fired up the python > with the -i 0.0.0.0 argument. > > This all seems to work if I access from the VM's command line, using curl > http://127.0.0.1/welcome, or the local subnet ip > (http://169.XX.XX.XX/welcome), but not with the public IP (52.yy.yy.yy), and > access from browsers not on the subnet times out, as well. The EC2 security > group has had the http port opened. > > BTW, the same VM is also used for a demo FTP server, and some clients can > reach the FTP server. > > Anyone else with experience on this? > > Dave > /dps > > -- > Resources: > - http://web2py.com > - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) > - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) > - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "web2py-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.