Setting up Nginx on a new micro-instance on AWS
amazon-web-services, nginx
Solution
To verify that the problem isn't with the server, try running a `wget http://localhost/` from your instance and see if you get the page you're expecting. If you do, it's probably firewall related.
When you created your instance, you had to provide a security key (this is what you use to ssh into it) and a security group.
You need to make sure that your security group has port 80 open (assuming you have nginx configured on port 80).
If you have a new AWS account, and you're running your instance inside a VPC, you need to make sure your VPC has an internet gateway attached.
Problem
I'm trying to figure out how to set up Nginx on a micro-instance on AWS. The micro-instance is set up and running. I've associated an elastic IP to it. I SSH into it, make a new user run `apt-get upgrade`, then `apt-get install nginx`. Nginx gets installed. Then I run `sudo service nginx start`. It looks like nginx is started. I can see the workers as running processes. So I try to access the server through the public IP ie. elastic IP via my browser in hope of seeing the 'Welcome to Nginx' screen. But all I get is the message that the server can't be found. I'm clueless on how to continue.