I want to setup a connection between a webserver and a PostgreSQL 9.3 server. Both are hosted on Amazon EC2 servers and are part of the same security group. I can't get the connection working. The same goes for a direct connection from my desktop to Postgres, something we have done with another Postgres server, the one which is going to be replaced by this one.
This is what I did up til now:
- Checked Amazon Security Groups: Server is part of the Default group, and the Default group accepts traffic from my local IP for all ports: this works for other servers and I can connect to the server using SSH.
- IPTables firewall service is stopped on the server.
- PostgreSQL is running: I can setup an SSH tunnel and then connect using PGadmin, open databases etc. So the server is running, and the login is correct. Even if this would work for connecting from my desktop, it is not a solution for the connection between the servers. I suspect though that if I get this working, the other connection will work as well.
- pg_hba.conf: I copied the connection list from the other server, and my local IP is in here, as well as the local IP (10.x.x.x) of the Amazon webserver.
After installing the server I changed the database password for the postgres user using MD5. As the connection over the SSH tunnel worked, I guess this should work for all connections automatically, but I'm not sure. I haven't setup the other server, and when I query the postgres users table (pg_catalog.pg_user), I don't see any difference between the two servers.
I'm not 100% sure about the security groups, so I'm going to look into that again, but besides that I don't know where to look.
How can I get the connection working?
Update
Netstat output
netstat -an | grep 5432 tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:5432 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 63088 /tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432 unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 63087 /var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432
Telnet
Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused