Deploying WAR on Amazons Elastic Beanstalk

Question

I have created a simple "HelloWorld" servlet in an Eclipse project. I built it into a WAR, deployed it in my Tomcat 7.0 local server and a simple request localhost/HelloWorld/sayhello prints "HELLO" No rocket science there. So following AWS documentation on how to deploy a WAR I go to Beanstalk management console and see the message "You do not have any AWS Elastic Beanstalk applications launched" so I click on Tomcat 7 -> start, and upload my WAR. After the upload completes and AWS tells me it is now running I click on "view running version" and it opens the link default-environment-zhqv8mwsqw.elasticbeanstalk.com I then tried default-environment-zhqv8mwsqw.elasticbeanstalk.com/HelloWorld/sayhello but I get a 404. Have I missed something or is there anything I can check? How do I explicitly tell AWS to use a 32 Bit JVM?

Answer 1

It should be default-environment-zhqv8mwsqw.elasticbeanstalk.com I then tried default-environment-zhqv8mwsqw.elasticbeanstalk.com/sayhello

On your local you use context path in url but in EBS it deployed at root. so need to put context.

Answer 2

The answer to this is not a line or two. I have several tutorials on my own website, among them one on how to deploy a war to AWS using Elastic Beanstalk. It is specific for Grails, but works for any war. Here is a link that will take you to the specific tutorial on my website: how to deploy a war to AWS using Elastic Beanstalk Please note that this link will take you away from stackoverflow and to my website. You can right click the link and say "open in a new tab" to keep stackoverflow open.