Help Accessing Amazon EC2 Instance

Question

Trying to set up first EC2 instance for simple (currently) php app, using osx 10.6. When i try to access my new instance in the command line i can only get ssh: connect to host xx.xxx.xxx.xxx port 22: Operation timed out .

i'm typing this at command line:

ssh -i <MYPEMNAME>.pem ec2-user@<PRIVATEIP/PUBLICDNS/ELASTICIP>

i have this as a security rule in the management console:

rule name: web_access
22(SSH)    0.0.0.0 
80(HTTP)   0.0.0.0

i have ssh completely open just to test this, i'll get a more appropriate ip when it works.

i created an elastic IP, which was one option i tried after 'ec2-user@...'

i also generated a .pem when i created the instance which i have saved to a folder .ec2 on my machine, named as referenced in .pem above.

the management console says the instance is running. i think im just doing the ssh access wrong at this point.

any help tremendously appreciated! thanks

Answer 1

Yeah, comments were pretty correct. It was an ssh issue and the main thing was that i was trying to add a custom security rule that allowed ssh but the default didn't. and for whatever reason the custom rule wasn't being applied so i just edited the default rule to allow port 22 (ssh) and I was pretty much up and running. Also needed to run chmod. !! Anddd, if you add a new keypair like I did, you may need to go into the ssh/known_hosts file and delete reference to your old keypair. that was hanging me up for a while with a an error out a middleman attack.

thanks