Question

After following this tutorial to setup an EC2 instance for a Django app, I can’t connect to the application. Any help debugging, would be greatly appreciated.

Steps followed after setting up EC2 instance:

1. sudo aptitude install python-django
2. sudo aptitude install mysql-server
3. sudo aptitude install python-mysqldb
4. sudo aptitude install libapache2-mod-wsgi
5. mkdir srv
6. cd srv
7. django-admin startproject mysite

8. sudo vim /etc/apache2/sites-available/mysite.com

   NameVirtualHost *:80
   
   <VirtualHost *:80>
   
       ServerName mysite.com
       ServerAlias www.mysite.com
       WSGIScriptAlias / /home/demo/public_html/mysite.com/mysite.wsgi
   </VirtualHost>
   

9. sudo vim /home/demo/public_html/mysite.com/mysite.wsgi

   import os
   import sys
   
   sys.path.append('/home/demo/public_html/mysite.com/')
   
   os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'mysite.settings'
   
   import django.core.handlers.wsgi
   
   application = django.core.handlers.wsgi.WSGIHandler()
   

10. sudo a2ensite mysite.com

11. sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload

For my host records on my URL:

    @  to the Private IP from Amazon as an A Record
    www to the Private IP from Amazon as an A record

The result is that when I enter the IP address, myurl.com, and http://www.myurl.com all are unable to connect to the server.

Any ideas on how to debug this?

Answer 1

Don’t use the private IP for your instance, that’s only useful if you’re accessing your instance from within EC2, instead use the public IP in your hosts file.