Can not Connect to Jupyter Notebook on AWS EC2 Instance

Question

I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS on an AWS EC2 instance. I'm trying to connect to Jypter in Safari from my MacBookPro. I opened https port 443 and TCP 8888 in my security group.

ubuntu@ip-10-0-1-62:~$ netstat -a  | grep 8888

tcp        0 0 localhost:8888          *:* LISTEN     

tcp        0 0 localhost:8888          localhost:36190 TIME_WAIT  

ubuntu@ip-10-0-1-62:~$ netstat -a  | grep 443

unix  3 [ ]         STREAM CONNECTED     12443    

ubuntu@ip-10-0-1-62:~$ 

I can't connect to Jupyter from my Safari browser on my Mac. (I can connect to Tensorboard on port 6006).

ubuntu@ip-10-0-1-62:~$ jupyter notebook

[W 20:40:14.909 NotebookApp] Unrecognized JSON config file version, assuming version 1

[I 20:40:14.921 NotebookApp] Writing notebook server cookie secret to /run/user/1000/jupyter/notebook_cookie_secret

[I 20:40:15.224 NotebookApp] JupyterLab alpha preview extension loaded from /home/ubuntu/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/jupyterlab

[I 20:40:15.230 NotebookApp] Serving notebooks from local directory: /home/ubuntu

[I 20:40:15.230 NotebookApp] 0 active kernels 

[I 20:40:15.230 NotebookApp] The Jupyter Notebook is running at: http://localhost:8888/?token=c08a71a48c6e159bdbdcc95837c4e2e053349382c681899b

[I 20:40:15.231 NotebookApp] Use Control-C to stop this server and shut down all kernels (twice to skip confirmation).

[C 20:40:15.232 NotebookApp] 

 

    Copy/paste this URL into your browser when you connect for the first time,

    to log in with a token:

        http://localhost:8888/?token=c08a71a48c6e159bdbdcc95837c4e2e053349382c681899b

$ telnet 52.8.16.250 8888

Trying 52.8.16.250...

telnet: connect to address 52.8.16.250: Connection refused

telnet: Unable to connect to the remote host

$ telnet 52.8.16.250 6006

Trying 52.8.16.250...

telnet: connect to address 52.8.16.250: Connection refused

telnet: Unable to connect to the remote host

$ telnet 52.8.16.250 8080

Trying 52.8.16.250...

telnet: connect to address 52.8.16.250: Connection refused

telnet: Unable to connect to the remote host

$ telnet ec2-52-8-16-250.us-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com 8888

Trying 52.8.16.250...

telnet: connect to address 52.8.16.250: Connection refused

telnet: Unable to connect to the remote host

$ telnet ec2-52-8-16-250.us-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com 20

Trying 52.8.16.250...

 

telnet: connect to address 52.8.16.250: Operation timed out

telnet: Unable to connect to the remote host

Answer 1

SSH tunnelling is a good solution for this:

ssh -i /path/to/AWS/privatekey/file -NL 8157:localhost:8888 user@host

Where user and host are dependent on the EC2 instance.