Where to add .ebextensions in a WAR?

Question

Scenario:

• AWS Elastic Beanstalk
• Java application
• .ebextensions currently placed in src/main/resources/.ebextensions

Commands are not being executed.

Where is the .ebextensions supposed to go in a Java application?

Solution 1

.ebextensions should be placed in the root of WAR.

The WAR structure looks like the following:

web_app.war
          |
          |_.ebextensions
          |   |_ 01run.config
          |   |_ 02do.config
          |
          |_META-INF
          |
          |_WEB-INF
               |_ classes
               |_ lib
               |_ web.xml

Refer to the official AWS docs for further information.

Solution 2

Using Maven I did as follows:

• mkdir src/main/ebextensions
• put .config files into this folder

• add the following to pom.xml

      <plugin>
          <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
          <configuration>
              <webResources>
                  <resource>
                      <directory>src/main/ebextensions</directory>
                      <targetPath>.ebextensions</targetPath>
                      <filtering>true</filtering>
                  </resource>
              </webResources>
          </configuration>
      </plugin>
  

to transfer the files to the top level of the war when it is built.

Solution 3

Using gradle I did the following

• mkdir src/main/resources/ebextensions
• put .config files into this folder
• add the following to build.gradle

apply plugin: 'war'

war {
    from('src/main/resources/ebextensions') {
        into('.ebextensions')
    }
}

to transfer the files to the top level of the war when it is built.

Solution 4

you missed resources, it works when I put the path right

war {
    from('src/main/resources/ebextensions') {
        into('.ebextensions')
    }
}

Solution 5

Update for people here in 2020, now task name is "bootWar"

bootWar {
    from('src/main/resources/ebextensions') {
        into('.ebextensions')
    }
}

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Comments

[Paul Taylor]

My war is built using maven how would i modify my pom to achieve this

[Gustavo Matias]

that's in src/main/webapp

[study]

@GustavoMatias, AWS changed the path of .ebextensions for a while, but it accepts both paths(in /WEB-INF/.ebextensions and /.ebextensions of WAR).

[babalu]

@GustavoMatias no longer works in sbt version 0.13.6, now using jar uf target/scala-2.10/xxx-0.1.0-SNAPSHOT.war src/main/webapp/.ebextensions to insert the dir into the WAR file after packaging.

[fivedogit]

As of 2017 this method does not appear to work. The plugin XML does, indeed, add the .ebextensions folder to the top level of the war, but when deployed to a beanstalk, that folder and its contents are nowhere to be found.

[christopher]

This answer seems to place the .ebextensions folder in the root of the classes folder inside the generated JAR, not in the root of it.

[ATOzTOA]

@fivedogit Did you look in the war file? When deployed to EBS, the folder is used up.