Can't access Jenkins running on ec2-instance [closed]

Question

I've tried setting up jenkins on some free-tier ec2 instances (I've tried ubuntu based and Amazon's own AMI) and despite jenkins running properly I can't access it on port 8080 using browser no matter what I try.

I've check that jenkins is running both by running sudo service jenkins status and by running curl localhost:8080 once I'm ssh'd in.

I've tried all the answers to similar questions on the web but nothing has worked. I've set up my security group exactly as all guides online state for installing jenkins on ec2 , I even went really overboard and made it overly open - nothing! Note - I've not tried setting it up behind apache/nginx but I'm feeling I shouldn't have to out of the principle that it should work on 8080

UPDATE - I caved and tried to setup Nginx using this link https://markunsworth.com/2012/02/11/setting-up-a-jenkins-build-server-on-ec2/ . I get the standard nginx welcome screen - it doesn't serve up jenkins for me

My overly open security group

Any help would be hugely appreciated

Answer 1

You need to open 8080 port in AWS.

Check this to do it: https://hayato-iriumi.net/2019/08/22/how-to-install-jenkins-on-aws/

After that you 're good to go by using the public IP of the EC2 and port 8080 :)