Connection timeout port 80 on new Azure VM with NSG rules configured

Question

I just created a new Ubuntu 14.04 virtual machine in Microsoft Azure using the (recommended) resource manager deployment model. The following screenshots show the deployment

Answer 1

For the ones that still struggle with the inbound rules on the new Portal Azure, you need to set up the Network Security Group (NSG) to:

• allow connections from (source):

any sources

and

* - for the source port range (extremely important as it may seem normal to set 80 or 443 - which is not correct)

• destination:

any

and

80 - as the destination port range (or the port that your webserver is listening to - it could be also 8080 or other)

The same goes for other ports like the 443 for the https connections.

Answer 2

What is your source port on your NSG? Did you leave it Any/*? If not you are limiting yourself to traffic coming only from that one port.