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I started a Ghost blog on Google's Compute Engine following this guide here. I have enabled both HTTP and HTTPS traffic.

The issue is the famous "This site can't be reached ... unexpectedly closed the connection."

A few of my friends have reported the issue with accessing the blog through their wifi, but no issues with 4G on their phones. I am able to reproduce the issue through my VPN, NordVPN. If I access the external IP address directly, I am able to get to the Nginx welcome page.

Are there firewall changes I need to make to allow these connections? I don't see why I am able to access it just fine on my wifi and they are not able to. Thank you for your help!

Machine type: f1-micro (1 vCPU, 0.6 GB memory)
CPU platform: Intel Haswell
Zone: us-east1-b

gcloud compute firewall-rules list on the instance results in the below: enter image description here

Alan
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  • Could you post the output of `gcloud compute firewall-rules list` just to be sure? – marcyb5st Sep 24 '18 at 12:53
  • @marcyb5st, I have edited the post to include the output and included some additional information – Alan Sep 25 '18 at 02:22
  • you're using the default firewall rules which are pretty lenient. I'm assuming you have the instance tagged properly for both HTTP and HTTPS under network tags? – Patrick W Sep 26 '18 at 15:16
  • Yes I do! I have a solution, it was a "@" record DNS issue. – Alan Sep 26 '18 at 20:18

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Thank you everyone for digging into this. This is a rookie mistake on my part. Godaddy came with 4 "@" records in my DNS and I only changed one of them to point to my external IP. Once I deleted the other 3 "@" records, everything worked just fine.

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