For reasons too insane to even go into, I am attempting to install using the Bitnami Magento 1.9.2.4 image on a fresh Amazon AWS/Lightsail Ubuntu 16.04 instance (2gbs to avoid complaints and be sure I don’t run into anything unnecessary).

I think this is really more of an Apache question. After I finish the install (success), I can’t get the server to respond via the instance IP address at the default port (8080).

Regarding the old Bitnami Image, you can get (or wget) that Magento 1.9.2.4 image still, it’s over here:

wget "https://downloads.bitnami.com/files/stacks/magento/1.9.2.4-3/bitnami-magento-1.9.2.4-3-linux-x64-installer.run" 

So for the sake of anyone who’s trying to work through the whole process, once you pull the above down to your instance you need to chmod the above file to 755. This assumes you are in the directory with your download:

chmod 755 bitnami-magento-1.9.2.4-3-linux-x64-installer.run

Then run it using it’s full path, like:

/home/ubuntu/bitnami-magento-1.9.2.4-3-linux-x64-installer.run

So the install is going to ask a bunch of questions, for anyone keeping track my answers were all yes (ie. yes to Git, PhpMyAdmin, Beetailer… whatever that is).

Then I created an admin user / password etc.

As far as the port I didn’t have anything running on 8080 so the install defaulted the port to 8080 with HTTPS on 8443 with MySQL on 3306 (more on ports in a minute).

I think Host/Domain is one of the keys to this problem. When I couldn’t get the server to respond I just recreated an instance and tried a different Domain during the install process. I tried: internal AWS IP, External ACTUAL IP, 127.0.0.1

Here’s what the Magento 1.9 Domain prompt looks like:

So basically that sort of brings us up to date.

Once I finished the install, like a normal human used to using bitnami as a cloud image I assumed the server would respond at whatever the default path was at the IP address it was running on. Ie:

BASEIPADDRESS:8080/magento

Not the case. When I hit that the server does NOT respond, hence the question. In addition to the above I have also tried the BASEIPADDRESS, and the BASEIPADDRESS:8080

Results checking open ports

So since the server is not responding I figured I would check the ports.
First I checked using netstat:

netstat -lntu

I got back:

Then I realized that netstat is now depreciated… so I went with:

ss -lntu

I got back:

(excuse the images, formatting wouldn’t work for text)

To me it looks like 8080 (default) is open in both of those results. So why isn’t the server responding at the default location?

#Bitnami Status = OK
Checking the status with:
/home/ubuntu/magento-1.9.2.4-3/ctlscript.sh status

Everything looks good:

apache already running
mysql already running
Memcached not running

Since it says Memcached was not running, I started memcached to see if that was the issue, no it was not.

I can access the instance via SSH and yes I am sure the IP is right. See images above.

I also posted this to the Bitnami community but haven’t heard anything over there. Will cross populate as I get ideas.