Monday, May 5, 2014

Making jetty / apache tomcat work on amazon ec2 windows instance

Suppose you have an Amazon ec2 instance running windows OS. One day you decided to run jetty or apache tomcat servlet containers. What does it take to enable these servers to be visible outside your security group, say Internet?

1. Enable the target port in the amazon console like this (supposing it is port 8080):

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One may think this should be enough. But, that is not so. Not in the case of windows box at least.

Next is:

2. You need to edit the security rules of the windows box such that the inbound connection on port 8080 is allowed:



3. You are done!

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