Can't access my CKAN installation on Amazon EC2 - amazon-ec2

Question

I followed installation guide and deployment guide and I can access CKAN site but on port 5000, not on 8080.
What have I done wrong?
--edit1--
Error log.
/var/log/apache2/ckan_default.error.log is empty.
/var/log/apache2/error.log below:
[Wed Dec 16 03:56:05.341055 2015] [core:notice] [pid 31625] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/apache2'
[Wed Dec 16 05:25:00.457734 2015] [:error] [pid 32024] [client 188.68.224.62:59132] script '/var/www/html/wp/httptest.php' not found or unable to stat
[Wed Dec 16 06:46:59.218607 2015] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 31625] AH00171: Graceful restart requested, doing restart
[Wed Dec 16 06:46:59.367788 2015] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 31625] AH00163: Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu) mod_wsgi/3.4 Python/2.7.6 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Wed Dec 16 06:46:59.367809 2015] [core:notice] [pid 31625] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/apache2'
[Wed Dec 16 06:54:00.009154 2015] [:error] [pid 966] [client 188.68.224.62:40707] script '/var/www/html/wp/httptest.php' not found or unable to stat
[Wed Dec 16 13:07:30.925196 2015] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 31625] AH00171: Graceful restart requested, doing restart
--edit2--
Changed everything back to how the deployment guide says.
/etc/apache2/sites-available/ckan_default.conf below
<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:8080>
ServerName ec2-xx-xx-xx-xx.ap-southeast-2.compute.amazonaws.com
ServerAlias www.ec2-xx-xx-xx-xx.ap-southeast-2.compute.amazonaws.com
WSGIScriptAlias / /etc/ckan/default/apache.wsgi
# Pass authorization info on (needed for rest api).
WSGIPassAuthorization On
# Deploy as a daemon (avoids conflicts between CKAN instances).
WSGIDaemonProcess ckan_default display-name=ckan_default processes=2 threads=15
WSGIProcessGroup ckan_default
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/ckan_default.error.log
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/ckan_default.custom.log combined
LogLevel info
<IfModule mod_rpaf.c>
RPAFenable On
RPAFsethostname On
RPAFproxy_ips 127.0.0.1
</IfModule>
<Directory />
Require all granted
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Also tried changing the 127.0.0.1:8080 to *:8080 and tried public IP address (Amazon Elastic IP) and DNS address. None of them work.
ports.conf has listen 8080 (taken out listen 80)
wsgi script and nginx config as described in guide also.
I see the "Problem loading page" on Firefox visiting the root url on port 80 but visiting 8080 just hangs and both don't have HTTP response. I can still access CKAN on port 5000.

Answer 1

Amazon EC2 doesn't allow connections to port 8080 by default, so could open the port if you really wanted to access it externally.
However accessing CKAN via 8080 is only for testing that the apache deployment is working, so it makes no sense to make it available externally - you can test apache is working by ssh-ing to the box and using curl.
The CKAN deployment instructions continue by telling you to install nginx as a reverse proxy, exposing CKAN on the normal port 80.