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Hi all,
Just got into building my first game with some friends and we are trying to set up SFS2X to allow us in a lobby together. I spun up an amazon free tier account and launched a t2.micro instance using Amazon Linux. I followed the instructions, and got the service started on the machine.

In AWS, I created a security group that I applied to the box.
Inbound Rules :

UDP : port 9933 | source ::/0
TCP : port 9933 | source ::/0
TCP : port 8080 | source ::/0
TCP : port 80 | source ::/0

I then navigate to http://x.x.x.x:8080 (obviously substituting x's for the real public IP) and it gives me nothing. Just "this site can't be reached". The service looks to be running fine on the box, I am obviously missing something on either end that's blocking or just straight up now allowing this connection. Anyone have an idea what I'm missing?

Hi,
when using AWS you need to configure the so called "Security Group" which is their fancy name for a firewall
Check the Security Group associated with your EC2 instance and add a few inbound rules to allow traffic for the ports you've listed above.

That should fix it.
Cheers

Hi Lapo - I appreciate your reply!

I have already done what you described, however. I created the security group for all the inbound rules I listed in my initial post, and applied that group directly to the ec2 instance that has SFS2X installed. I am still unable to acccess the Admin page.

Try telnetting the server on the http port.
Example:

Do you get a connection?
(Similarly you can do the same with port 9933, to check if it's open)

Thanks