I have just created an EC2 instance on a brand new AWS account, behind a security group, and loaded some software on it. I am running Sinatra on the machine on port 4567 (currently), and have opened that port in my security group to whole world. Further, I am able to ssh into the EC2 instance, but I cannot connect on port 4567. I am using the public IP to connect:
shakuras:~ tyler$ curl **.***.**.***:22
SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_6.2p2 Ubuntu-6ubuntu0.1
curl: (56) Recv failure: Connection reset by peer
shakuras:~ tyler$ curl **.***.**.***:4567
curl: (7) Failed connect to **.***.**.***:4567; Connection refused
But my webserver is running, since I can see the site when I curl from localhost:
ubuntu@ip-172-31-8-160:~$ curl localhost:4567
Hello world! Welcome
I thought it might be the firewall but I ran iptables and got:
ubuntu@ip-172-31-8-160:~$ sudo iptables -L
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
I'm pretty lost on what is going on here. Why can't I connect from the outside world?
This sounds like issue with the Sinatra binding. Could check this and this and even this link which talks about binding Sinatra to all IP addresses.