How to configure direct http access to EC2 instance?

Question

This is a very basic Amazon EC2 question, but I\'m stumped so here goes.

I want to launch an Amazon EC2 instance and allow access to HTTP on ports 80 and 8888 from a

Answer 1

Had to do the following:

1) Enable HTTP access on the instance config, it wasn't on by default only SSH 2) Tried to do nodejs server, so port was bound to 80 -> 3000 did the following commands to fix that

iptables -F
iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT
sudo service iptables-persistent flush