Hello all community members and developers,
I am trying to set up the public IPFS gateway on my AWS server.
I have installed the Golang and IPFS successfully on the server. and as I try running the IPFS node (IPFS Daemon), my IPFS node starts successfully and everything looks fine.
as you can see the output below.
$ sudo systemctl status ipfs
● ipfs.service - IPFS Daemon
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/ipfs.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Thu 2022-06-30 07:59:32 UTC; 1h 19min ago
Main PID: 17324 (ipfs)
Tasks: 7 (limit: 1145)
Memory: 229.1M
CGroup: /system.slice/ipfs.service
└─17324 /usr/local/bin/ipfs daemon
Jun 30 07:59:33 ip-172-31-34-147 ipfs[17324]: Swarm listening on /p2p-circuit
Jun 30 07:59:33 ip-172-31-34-147 ipfs[17324]: Swarm announcing /ip4/127.0.0.1/tcp/4001
Jun 30 07:59:33 ip-172-31-34-147 ipfs[17324]: Swarm announcing /ip4/127.0.0.1/udp/4001/quic
Jun 30 07:59:33 ip-172-31-34-147 ipfs[17324]: Swarm announcing /ip4/3.34.152.151/udp/4001/quic
Jun 30 07:59:33 ip-172-31-34-147 ipfs[17324]: Swarm announcing /ip6/::1/tcp/4001
Jun 30 07:59:33 ip-172-31-34-147 ipfs[17324]: Swarm announcing /ip6/::1/udp/4001/quic
Jun 30 07:59:33 ip-172-31-34-147 ipfs[17324]: API server listening on /ip4/0.0.0.0/tcp/5001
Jun 30 07:59:33 ip-172-31-34-147 ipfs[17324]: WebUI: http://0.0.0.0:5001/webui
Jun 30 07:59:33 ip-172-31-34-147 ipfs[17324]: Gateway (writable) server listening on /ip4/0.0.0.0/tcp/8080
Jun 30 07:59:33 ip-172-31-34-147 ipfs[17324]: Daemon is ready
everything looks fine up to here, but as I try to access my gateway using which is running on port 8080 it won't respond.
My AWS server public IP address is 3.34.152.151 and I am trying to access my IPFS gateway using http://http://3.34.152.151:8080/ipfs/, but it is not working.
Also I have allowed the ports not to be blocked by firewall,
sudo firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=4001/tcp --permanent
sudo firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=8080/tcp --permanent
but still I am not able to access my gateway at http://http://3.34.152.151:8080/ipfs/
Here is my IPFS config file.
{
"API": {
"HTTPHeaders": {
"Access-Control-Allow-Headers": [
"X-Requested-With",
"Access-Control-Expose-Headers",
"Range"
],
"Access-Control-Expose-Headers": [
"Location",
"Ipfs-Hash"
],
"Access-Control-Allow-Methods": [
"POST",
"GET"
],
"Access-Control-Allow-Origin": [
"*"
],
"X-Special-Header": [
"Access-Control-Expose-Headers: Ipfs-Hash"
]
},
"RootRedirect": "",
"Writable": true,
"PathPrefixes": [],
"APICommands": []
},
"Addresses": {
"API": "/ip4/0.0.0.0/tcp/5001",
"Announce": [],
"AppendAnnounce": [],
"Gateway": "/ip4/0.0.0.0/tcp/8080",
"NoAnnounce": [
"/ip4/10.0.0.0/ipcidr/8",
"/ip4/100.64.0.0/ipcidr/10",
"/ip4/169.254.0.0/ipcidr/16",
"/ip4/172.16.0.0/ipcidr/12",
"/ip4/192.0.0.0/ipcidr/24",
"/ip4/192.0.2.0/ipcidr/24",
"/ip4/192.168.0.0/ipcidr/16",
"/ip4/198.18.0.0/ipcidr/15",
"/ip4/198.51.100.0/ipcidr/24",
"/ip4/203.0.113.0/ipcidr/24",
"/ip4/240.0.0.0/ipcidr/4",
"/ip6/100::/ipcidr/64",
"/ip6/2001:2::/ipcidr/48",
"/ip6/2001:db8::/ipcidr/32",
"/ip6/fc00::/ipcidr/7",
"/ip6/fe80::/ipcidr/10"
],
"Swarm": [
"/ip4/0.0.0.0/tcp/4001",
"/ip6/::/tcp/4001",
"/ip4/0.0.0.0/udp/4001/quic",
"/ip6/::/udp/4001/quic"
]
},
"AutoNAT": {},
"Bootstrap": [
"/dnsaddr/bootstrap.libp2p.io/p2p/QmNnooDu7bfjPFoTZYxMNLWUQJyrVwtbZg5gBMjTezGAJN",
"/dnsaddr/bootstrap.libp2p.io/p2p/QmQCU2EcMqAqQPR2i9bChDtGNJchTbq5TbXJJ16u19uLTa",
"/dnsaddr/bootstrap.libp2p.io/p2p/QmbLHAnMoJPWSCR5Zhtx6BHJX9KiKNN6tpvbUcqanj75Nb",
"/dnsaddr/bootstrap.libp2p.io/p2p/QmcZf59bWwK5XFi76CZX8cbJ4BhTzzA3gU1ZjYZcYW3dwt",
"/ip4/104.131.131.82/tcp/4001/p2p/QmaCpDMGvV2BGHeYERUEnRQAwe3N8SzbUtfsmvsqQLuvuJ",
"/ip4/104.131.131.82/udp/4001/quic/p2p/QmaCpDMGvV2BGHeYERUEnRQAwe3N8SzbUtfsmvsqQLuvuJ"
],
"DNS": {
"Resolvers": {}
},
"Datastore": {
"BloomFilterSize": 0,
"GCPeriod": "1h",
"HashOnRead": false,
"Spec": {
"mounts": [
{
"child": {
"path": "blocks",
"shardFunc": "/repo/flatfs/shard/v1/next-to-last/2",
"sync": true,
"type": "flatfs"
},
"mountpoint": "/blocks",
"prefix": "flatfs.datastore",
"type": "measure"
},
{
"child": {
"compression": "none",
"path": "datastore",
"type": "levelds"
},
"mountpoint": "/",
"prefix": "leveldb.datastore",
"type": "measure"
}
],
"type": "mount"
},
"StorageGCWatermark": 90,
"StorageMax": "10GB"
},
"Discovery": {
"MDNS": {
"Enabled": false,
"Interval": 10
}
},
"Experimental": {
"AcceleratedDHTClient": false,
"FilestoreEnabled": false,
"GraphsyncEnabled": false,
"Libp2pStreamMounting": false,
"P2pHttpProxy": false,
"StrategicProviding": false,
"UrlstoreEnabled": false
},
"Gateway": {
"HTTPHeaders": {
"Access-Control-Allow-Headers": [
"X-Requested-With",
"Access-Control-Expose-Headers",
"Range"
],
"Access-Control-Expose-Headers": [
"Location",
"Ipfs-Hash"
],
"Access-Control-Allow-Methods": [
"POST",
"GET"
],
"Access-Control-Allow-Origin": [
"*"
],
"X-Special-Header": [
"Access-Control-Expose-Headers: Ipfs-Hash"
]
},
"RootRedirect": "",
"Writable": true,
"PathPrefixes": [],
"APICommands": []
},
"Identity": {
"PeerID": "12D3KooWPAnHKFnH4SeSx2LdkgRdVQ54RuHdfnUZMWM16YTgnHBw",
"PrivKey": "CAESQEpsG26Nkh51+jLSNtpknqmnuOSMhAKDYI+uDP7pWgslxmLPq7Fh1EUSBKDSMfY3Uq8GMXZmspW7W/OYZe3277I="
},
"Internal": {},
"Ipns": {
"RecordLifetime": "",
"RepublishPeriod": "",
"ResolveCacheSize": 128
},
"Migration": {
"DownloadSources": [],
"Keep": ""
},
"Mounts": {
"FuseAllowOther": false,
"IPFS": "/ipfs",
"IPNS": "/ipns"
},
"Peering": {
"Peers": null
},
"Pinning": {
"RemoteServices": {}
},
"Plugins": {
"Plugins": null
},
"Provider": {
"Strategy": ""
},
"Pubsub": {
"DisableSigning": false,
"Router": ""
},
"Reprovider": {
"Interval": "12h",
"Strategy": "all"
},
"Routing": {
"Type": "dht"
},
"Swarm": {
"AddrFilters": [
"/ip4/10.0.0.0/ipcidr/8",
"/ip4/100.64.0.0/ipcidr/10",
"/ip4/169.254.0.0/ipcidr/16",
"/ip4/172.16.0.0/ipcidr/12",
"/ip4/192.0.0.0/ipcidr/24",
"/ip4/192.0.2.0/ipcidr/24",
"/ip4/192.168.0.0/ipcidr/16",
"/ip4/198.18.0.0/ipcidr/15",
"/ip4/198.51.100.0/ipcidr/24",
"/ip4/203.0.113.0/ipcidr/24",
"/ip4/240.0.0.0/ipcidr/4",
"/ip6/100::/ipcidr/64",
"/ip6/2001:2::/ipcidr/48",
"/ip6/2001:db8::/ipcidr/32",
"/ip6/fc00::/ipcidr/7",
"/ip6/fe80::/ipcidr/10"
],
"ConnMgr": {
"GracePeriod": "20s",
"HighWater": 900,
"LowWater": 600,
"Type": "basic"
},
"DisableBandwidthMetrics": false,
"DisableNatPortMap": true,
"RelayClient": {},
"RelayService": {},
"ResourceMgr": {},
"Transports": {
"Multiplexers": {},
"Network": {},
"Security": {}
}
}
}
Also inside the config I have tried changing the gateway from "Gateway": "/ip4/0.0.0.0/tcp/8080" or "Gateway": "/ip4/127.0.0.1/tcp/8080" to my server IP address i.e "Gateway": "/ip4/3.34.152.151/tcp/8080" but it also won't work for me.
I have followed dozens of articles and nothing seems to work for me.
what I am looking to do?
I want to make this gateway public, public means anyone in this world can access this gateway using http://<MY_AWS_SERVER_IP>:8080/ipfs/<CID>
as of now, I want this, I am also aware that exposing the API endpoints of IPFS does not come under the best practices. but just for some testing, I am exposing my API endpoints too but it's temporary.
As of now, I am looking for your help in resolving this issue, why I am not able to access the IPFS gateway running on my AWS server at http://3.34.152.151:8080/ipfs using my local computer.
Thanks