Issue
I'm hosting my website on an Azure Linux VM, but I can't access it using the ip given. I have tried adding inbound rules, but there was no result. I also tried allowing the VM to listen to the particular ports 80 and 83 and added an inbound rule - no result still. I tried redeploying, but no changes. I tried reapplying, but still no results. I still can't access it through the IP on Chrome.
I am still new to azure VMs as I am only used to aws ec2. I don't know what else to do to resolve this. Most of the solutions I see here are for window VMs.
Solution
To resolve the issue, Check the firewall settings on the VM itself it allows inbound traffic on the ports on your website.
Added NSG port like below:
Check the status of the web server (Apache or Nginx) running on the VM and make sure that it is listening on the correct ports.
sudo ufw status
sudo ufw allow 80
sudo ufw allow 443
sudo systemctl status apache2
or
sudo systemctl status nginx
sudo systemctl status apache2
● apache2.service - The Apache HTTP Server
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/apache2.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Thu 2023-12-28 05:50:49 UTC; 31min ago
Docs: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/
Main PID: 3756 (apache2)
Tasks: 55 (limit: 4080)
Memory: 10.5M
CGroup: /system.slice/apache2.service
├─3756 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
├─3759 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
└─3760 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
Dec 28 05:50:48 vm1linux1 systemd[1]: Starting The Apache HTTP Server...
Dec 28 05:50:49 vm1linux1 systemd[1]: Started The Apache HTTP Server.
Still if the web server is not running, start it by running below command:
sudo systemctl start apache2
or
sudo systemctl start nginx
Now I am hosting my website on an Azure Linux VM check the below:
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt install -y apache2
Output:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
apache2-bin apache2-data apache2-utils libapr1 libaprutil1 libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3 libaprutil1-ldap libjansson4
liblua5.2-0 ssl-cert
Suggested packages:
apache2-doc apache2-suexec-pristine | apache2-suexec-custom www-browser openssl-blacklist
The following NEW packages will be installed:
apache2 apache2-bin apache2-data apache2-utils libapr1 libaprutil1 libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3 libaprutil1-ldap
libjansson4 liblua5.2-0 ssl-cert
0 upgraded, 11 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
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Now you can create new file:
cd /var/www/html
ls
vi index.html
sudo vi test.html
In file you can add your own sudo vi test.html , for sample I added below html code.
<html>
<h1> This is my website</h1>
</html>
change the name file:
#To save and change the file use below:
sudo mv index.html back.html
sudo mv test.html back.html
Answered By - Imran Answer Checked By - Mary Flores (WPSolving Volunteer)
