Access local server on AWS ubuntu machine image

Question

I have created a local server at 0.0.0.0:8000 on my ubuntu virtual machine on AWS with the following command

 python -m SimpleHTTPServer

This gave me the following response

Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8000 ...

How can access this server from the browser?

Answer 1

If you are on the host that is running the web server, go to: http://localhost:8000

If you are on another computer, access the host via its IP address: http://IP-ADDRESS:8000 (eg http://54.22.18.93:8000 )

If accessing from another computer, your Security Group will need to allow inbound access on port 8000.