title: Amazon EC2 - Issue Connecting to Public DNS
body: <p>I am facing a few issues.
  I initially had assigned an elastic IP to my micro instance i-38cbc940, but for some reason, after I did that the webpages I had uploaded were not functioning properly (images not loading correctly, etc). </p>
  
  <p>I tested this prior to the elastic IP assignment and such problems were not occurring. So I dissociated the elastic IP address and released it. Then, I reboot my instance. </p>
  
  <p>The problem is, now I cannot view my site in a browser using the public DNS address listed (ec2-23-23-18-52.compute-1.amazonaws.com) or any of its sub-directories. </p>
  
  <p>Things I Know:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>My security settings have not changed - I still have the same security group identified with the instance.</li>
  <li>httpd.conf file still shows "/var/www/html" as the DocumentRoot. </li>
  <li>Every time I navigate to the public DNS address listed...it shows "could not connect" but if I ping it, it works.</li>
  <li>If I SSH into the instance in the var/www/html directory, everything is still there, including an index.html file that was viewable before. Also, I can get into the instance through PuTTY.</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>Also, no sure if it's important, but this is an AmazonEC2-AMI/Apache/MySQL server with Wordpress CMS installed.</p>
  
  <p>Any ideas on what could be going on here?</p>