Deployed Azure languageb openAI conversational agent accelerator dosen't respond

Question

Hello,

I’ve been working with the Azure Language OpenAI Conversational Agent Accelerator and tried to deploy it to my subscription by following the exact steps provided in the README.

The deployment succeeds: all resources are created (Storage, Cognitive Services, Search, AI Foundry, Container Instance, etc.), quotas were set as recommended, and the container instance shows state: Running with a public FQDN and IP.

Inside the container, the app responds correctly (curl http://127.0.0.1:8000/ returns the HTML index page). Monitoring metrics also confirm that the container is running fine: Network bytes received are increasing, CPU is being used, and the process is alive.

However, when I try to access the app from outside using the public FQDN, I always get a Gateway Timeout / Server unreachable error.

I followed exactly the deployment instructions from the GitHub README, used the supported regions, and adjusted quotas as recommended, but the container instance endpoint is still inaccessible.

Thanks a lot for your guidance!

Best regards, Mohamed Amine