AWS CloudFormation Ethereum - Explorer issue

Question

I used the AWS Ethereum Template to deploy an Ethereum stack. The stats page works, and is showing the workers and mining stats, however, the explorer page is showing

'Allow Access to Geth and Refresh the Page'

I have recreated my stacks, and went over each step twice to make sure I wasn't missing something. I also followed some of the posts on fixing this issue (setting the IP manually in my app.js), but that didn't seem to work either.

I am not sure what code to provide, but will do so if anyone asks.

Template tutorial - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/blockchain-templates/latest/developerguide/blockchain-templates-getting-started.html

Answer 1

I had to put my Bastion host in the ec2 security group, instead of just the alb security group. the documentation does not say this, so I am wondering if I have something else not setup correctly. I am going to close this for now, but if I find the root cause, I will update.

The step is at the very bottom of this doc: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/blockchain-templates/latest/developerguide/blockchain-template-getting-started-prerequisites.html

edit: I opened up a pull request. Hopefully AWS can tell me what I did wrong, or if the documentation is actually wrong. https://github.com/awsdocs/aws-blockchain-templates-developer-guide/pull/2