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If you wish to deploy your application to Amazon’s Elastic Beanstalk, then\u00a0you can customize your server setup by placing configuration files within a .ebextensions<\/span> directory within the root of your .war<\/span> file (for web applications). These files can then contain various kinds of instructions. One can install packages with package managers such as yum<\/span> or rpm<\/span>. It is also possible to add files or issue commands and more. For an overview of the possibilities, please see the official documentation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This article will show you how to place the .ebextensions<\/span> directory at the root of your war file. An easy way of doing this is to package your war file with Maven. This assumes that your project is a Maven project and has a pom.xml<\/span> file at the root of the project.<\/p>\n

What you have to do is to instruct the maven-war-plugin<\/span> to move the .ebextensions<\/span> directory to the root of the war file. This can be done like in the below example (within pom.xml<\/span>).<\/p>\n

\r\n<plugin>\r\n    <artifactId>maven-war-plugin<\/artifactId>\r\n    <version>2.6<\/version>\r\n    <configuration>\r\n    \t<webResources>\r\n            <resource>\r\n            \t<directory>src\/main\/ebextensions<\/directory>\r\n                <targetPath>.ebextensions<\/targetPath>\r\n                <filtering>true<\/filtering>\r\n            <\/resource>\r\n        <\/webResources>\r\n    <\/configuration>\r\n<\/plugin>\r\n<\/code>\r\n<\/pre>\n
Then, provided that your project is set to use war packaging within your pom.xml<\/span>, you can issue the following command from the Terminal (with the working directory at the project root).<\/p>\n
\r\nmvn package\r\n<\/code>\r\n<\/pre>\n
This will place a war file at the project’s target directory with the .ebextensions<\/span> directory at the root. To verify that the directory has been moved correctly, then you can unpack\u00a0or view\u00a0.war files contents<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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