Access Ubuntu Server VM on Azure - azure

I've setup an Ubuntu Server on Azure. On this server, an application is running on port 3000. I want to access this application external. Azure tells me my server has public ip 40.68.XXX.XXX.
When I ping this IP, there is no response, despite ssh works when connecting to this IP-address.
I want to access 40.68.XXX.XXX:3000 external, does somebody know how to get this work?

Yes, you need to open up a port on the Network Security Group (NSG) and open up the port on your firewall (on the VM itself).
Easiest way to open the port is using the portal:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/virtual-machines-windows-nsg-quickstart-portal

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So I'm using an Azure VM that has a public IP address, and I've opened an inbound port, let's say it's 5555.
What I'm trying to do now is to run an application on the VM that has an API via localhost, also with the port 5555. I'm calling it then with public_ip:5555/api/...
Since I was not able to connect to the application from outside, is there something missing here? Most tutorials and resources I've found just mentioned opening the port.
Thanks.
Take a look at Azure's IP Flow Verify utility, which will check your NSG rules to ensure traffic can reach your VM. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/network-watcher/network-watcher-ip-flow-verify-overview
If traffic is reaching your VM, check your host firewall and then your application server logs.

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I cannot seem to connect to my website running on Azure VM. I have looked through every single Azure docs.
I allowed incoming connections to port 80 per documentation:
I have a very basic Hello World nodejs app listening on port 80 (i confirmed this app works locally my own system):
I am attempting to connect to the site via the Public IP assigned to me that i see in Azure Portal:
The problem is any attempt to connect to 40.XXX.XXX.230:80 in Chrome simply times out.
I am new to VM's but i think something is wrong with port forwarding?
Another thing to check:
Remote desktop into the virtual machine, and confirm that the virtual machine's local firewall allows incoming HTTP and HTTPS connections.

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I've installed a Windows 2012 R2 VM (free tier) and enabled all ports for external communication (including port 80).
I logged in to my VM and installed nginx webserver (I've also tried to python development server).
I can access the website internally on the VM (using 127.0.0.1 or the internal address of the server 10.1....) but when trying to access it from outside, using the external IP address (which is also the IP address I used in order to login to my server using RDP) I get no response.
Can you please help me understand what I'm doing wrong?
Thanks!
As #evilSnobu points out from his comments, the short answer is to allow the TCP port 80 in the windows firewall on windows VM itself.
Usually, we could login to that Windows VM and run the CMD command netsh advfirewall set allprofiles state off to disable the windows firewall temporarily. Then we can use telnet tool to check if TCP 80 port can be connected.
When we face the same issue no response outside of Azure VM. we can try one or more of the followings:
There is an NSG at the subnet level or NIC level as well which is not allowing data through.
There is a firewall on the VM itself (windows firewall etc.)
There is nothing listening on that port. It should be listening on 0.0.0.0 instead of 127.0.0.1 when you use netstat -ano in the windows CMD.
The service is not staring when you verify the port listening.
Outbound traffic with a specific port is denied from your local machines.
Hope this helps.

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I am trying to open port 8080 in a Windows Azure virtual machine. I have a test website listening in that port, and I am able to access it via localhost, so the website is running.
I have also opened the port in the firewall and created an inbound security rule in azure portal for the virtual machine, but the port doesn't seem to be open to the outside world. I have tried accessing it both via the IP address and the DNS with the same results.
Is there anything else I should be doing?

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I can able to login the dedicated server(has Windows server 2012) from local system by Remote Desktop connection. I used IP address and admin password to login dedicated server. I ran tomcat server in dedicated server and deployed my application then I can access my application from dedicated server's browser like
localhost:8080/myapp
or
xx.xx.xx.xx:8080/myapp
It was working fine there, but when I tried to access the same app from my local system as
xx.xx.xx.xx:8080/myapp
It's not working. I ran netstat -a to see whether the tcp is running or not in dedicated server , I can see 0.0.0.0:8080 is in Listening state in dedicated server. Any idea?
Also if it's a firewall issue then rather turning the firewall you can write inbound and outbound rule for specific port. Turning your firewall on server is a dangerous compromise with security.

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