Microsoft Azure Apache Web Server Not Accessible

Question

I've created literally dozens and dozens of web servers in my day, but this is my first attempt with Windows Azure and I'm running into some problems. I just started migrating from AWS recently.

First of all, I'm running Ubuntu 13.04. Firewall disabled (for debugging), Apache2 installed correctly (using apt). SSH works fine as do many other services with both the DNS hostname and public IP. Virtual host is set up correctly and validated. However, I cannot access the HTTP website either through the Azure provided subdomain or the virtual IP. It just times out.

This is also my first time using Ubuntu 13.04 as well. So, through the powers of deduction, I'm assuming there is something I'm missing either with this new version of Ubuntu or some quirk in Azure. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Answer 1

SOLUTION

These steps to create "endpoint" works fine for all VPS:

1. open "virtual machine > endpoint > add endpoint"
2. choose "next"
3. set "name:http, protocol:tcp, public port:80, private port:80"
4. choose "complete"

and then must wait for activation and then for some time.