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Asked: 2026-06-10T03:08:03+00:00

Updated 08.18.2012 I am using Play 2.0.2 and I want to deploy my app

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Updated 08.18.2012

I am using Play 2.0.2 and I want to deploy my app to Amazon Webservices. I think the easiest way to do this is via Elasticbeanstalk.

I used Play2war to package my app
https://github.com/dlecan/play2-war-plugin/

I was able to package it with 

play war

According to the usage guide of play2war, I renamed my file to ROOT.war because i used Linux 32bit Tomcat7.

I also used the servlet 3.0 as described in the tutorial on play2war. (tomcat 7 -> servlet 3.0).

The file size is 31mb.

Every time I use Elasticbeanstalk, I get the same log.

2012-08-18 00:25 GMT+0200
WARN
Environment health has been set to RED
2012-08-18 00:25 GMT+0200
INFO
Launched environment: elosource. However, there were issues during launch. See event log for details.
2012-08-18 00:25 GMT+0200
INFO
Your health check URL may be misconfigured. If your application does not respond to requests at http://elosource.elasticbeanstalk.com:80/, modify the health check URL to a valid path.

I tested it with Linux 32/64 bit , Tomcat7(servlet 3) and Tomcat6(servlet2.5). I always get the same result.

I also tried adding an extra html file for the health checker.

  • What would you recommend me to do?

  • What alternatives do I have to get my app running on ec2?

  • Is there a guide that explains how I manually deploy my app to ec2 with all the needed dependcies, like mongodb, play etc?

  • Also WAR files are relatively huge ~30mb, with my dsl 1k it is a real pain to upload such a lage file. Is there a way to only upload the changes with Elasticbeanstalk?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Ok, I know this is not the straight answer to your question as I am not using beanstalk, but as you asked for it in one of the comments:

    Here is how I run my play2 app on a linux EC2 instance with a jvm installed:

    1. on your local machine, in your project directory, run play dist
    2. send the dist/yourapp-1.0-SNAPSHOT.zip file (or whatever dist name you have
      configured) to the EC2 instance
    3. ssh to your instance
    4. unzip the dist file in the directory you want and cd there
    5. run chmod +x start
    6. run nohup ./start &

    you now have your play2 application running natively on EC2, with websocket and all the cool stuff. I didn’t have to configure anything special in play for that to work. I am using an RDS database configured as any other DB in play.

    Clearly, it’s a bit more hassle than beanstalk as you have to configure the server on your own and set up the autoscaling manually. But this is the best way that I have found to run play2 with all the features on AWS for now.

    I hope this helps.

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