Node js Application running on EC2 but not accessible in browser using Nginx

Question

I'm a newbie to Nginx. I cannot access my Node.js application that I deploy on AWS EC2 using Nginx reverse proxy. If I do curl http://localhost:3000 I can see the application is running successfully on the server(I'm using pm2 for running node server). But when I try to access it in my browser or postman using public DNS I get the error This site can't be reached and the request gets timeout. Here's my Nginx configuration (I have followed a number of tutorials for this)

The configuration file is named nginx.conf and is in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled directory. If I do sudo nginx -t it says syntax is ok and the test is successful. Also I can see the Nginx is running using command sudo systemctl status nginx What could be the possible reason for this behaviour?

Answer 1

I figured it out the problem wasn't with the Nginx configuration actually I needed to allow public access for port 80 on my ec2 instance which is blocked by default. I allowed port 80 and everything is working fine. This blog helped me. Visit it for me details on how to enable port 80 for your ec2 instance.