So .. I've succeeded at setting up an Ubuntu instance on Oracle Cloud (under their free tier), and have been able to SSH into it and to install packages on it (using Putty on Windows 11). However, I can not for the life of me figure out how to expose my public IP address to the internet. I've watched all of the YouTube videos I could find, and have gone back and forth withe Claude.ai making sure that Apache is properly installed and configured, and that the necessary ports are open in the firewall, etc. But my public IP just simply will not load up on the browser. I even drilled down to the following:
Networking > Virtual Cloud Networks > vcn-20241106-1341 > Security List Details
… and added the supposedly necessary Ingress Rules for TCP ports 80 and 443. But nope, still nothing.
Why, why, WHY is this so needlessly complicated? What on earth am I missing here? Could someone here please talk me through this, or point me to some online resource / video tutorial or something that takes me through it step by step?
More specifically .. how do I get my public IP address exposed to and accessible over the internet on an Oracle Cloud hosted Ubuntu Instance that has the Apache web server installed and running on it?
Thanks,
– Yvan