Question

How to set up access to website hosted within VPC?

I want to host my webserver inside a VPC. I do not plan to have it redundant and therefore I do not need load balancing.

I set a gateway as described here.

I also set up a webserver within the VPC. However, I cannot access it through the gateway.

I cannot find any documentation that explains how to provide access to a web server within a VPC from the internet.

What am I missing?

Thanks in advance!


Submit an answer


This textbox defaults to using Markdown to format your answer.

You can type !ref in this text area to quickly search our full set of tutorials, documentation & marketplace offerings and insert the link!

Sign In or Sign Up to Answer

These answers are provided by our Community. If you find them useful, show some love by clicking the heart. If you run into issues leave a comment, or add your own answer to help others.

Hi,

There are at least two configurations that allow you getting your web server from behind an internet gateway (from the internet):

  1. Proxy set up on your internet gateway
  2. Port redirection set up with your internet gateway’s firewall

The latter solution seems to be more convenient for configuration where internet gateway is intended just for securing VPC (firewall).

Try DigitalOcean for free

Click below to sign up and get $200 of credit to try our products over 60 days!

Sign up

card icon
Get our biweekly newsletter

Sign up for Infrastructure as a Newsletter.

Sign up
card icon
Hollie's Hub for Good

Working on improving health and education, reducing inequality, and spurring economic growth? We’d like to help.

Learn more
card icon
Become a contributor

You get paid; we donate to tech nonprofits.

Learn more
Welcome to the developer cloud

DigitalOcean makes it simple to launch in the cloud and scale up as you grow – whether you’re running one virtual machine or ten thousand.

Learn more ->
DigitalOcean Cloud Control Panel