Can't access Wowza REST API

Question

I'm running Wowza Streaming Engine on an EC2 instance, everything is working except the REST API/REST API documentation.

When I send a request to the rest api or even the documentation I get no response. It times out.

I followed this guide.

Server.xml

<RESTInterface>

        <Enable>true</Enable>

        <IPAddress>*</IPAddress>

        <Port>8087</Port>

        <!-- none, basic, digest, remotehttp, digestfile -->

        <AuthenticationMethod>none</AuthenticationMethod>

        <DiagnosticURLEnable>true</DiagnosticURLEnable>

        <SSLConfig>

            <Enable>false</Enable>

            <KeyStorePath></KeyStorePath>

            <KeyStorePassword></KeyStorePassword>

            <KeyStoreType>JKS</KeyStoreType>

            <SSLProtocol>TLS</SSLProtocol>

            <Algorithm>SunX509</Algorithm>

            <CipherSuites></CipherSuites>

            <Protocols></Protocols>

        </SSLConfig>

        <IPWhiteList>*</IPWhiteList>

        <IPBlackList></IPBlackList>

        <EnableXMLFile>false</EnableXMLFile>

        <DocumentationServerEnable>true</DocumentationServerEnable>

        <DocumentationServerPort>8089</DocumentationServerPort>

        <!-- none, basic, digest, remotehttp, digestfile -->

        <DocumentationServerAuthenticationMethod>none</DocumentationServerAuthenticationMethod>

        <Properties>

        </Properties>

</RESTInterface>

Answer 1

I solved the problem My EC2 instance has an automatically generated security group for Wowza, but it doesn't include access to port 8089 or port 8087 which is what the default Wowza REST API/API docs listen on.

I added the rules to the inbound rules myself for both ports.