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?

score 44 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 03 '14 at 11:49

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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.

answered Jul 03 '14 at 11:49

Paul Taylor

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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. – fivedogit Jan 02 '17 at 16:56
@fivedogit Did you look in the war file? When deployed to EBS, the folder is used up. – ATOzTOA Jan 09 '20 at 20:12

score 31 · Accepted Answer · edited Dec 03 '13 at 19:20

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.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.

edited Dec 03 '13 at 19:20

Ken Liu

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answered Aug 28 '13 at 22:28

study

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My war is built using maven how would i modify my pom to achieve this – Paul Taylor Jun 27 '14 at 09:48
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that's in src/main/webapp – Gustavo Matias Aug 28 '14 at 04:41
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@GustavoMatias, AWS changed the path of `.ebextensions` for a while, but it accepts both paths(in `/WEB-INF/.ebextensions` and `/.ebextensions` of WAR). – study Aug 28 '14 at 06:44
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@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. – babalu Oct 23 '14 at 00:50

hertzi · Answer 3 · 2018-02-05T21:56:37.210

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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.

edited Feb 05 '18 at 21:56

answered Oct 14 '15 at 13:29

hertzi

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 11 '16 at 00:03

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

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

answered Sep 11 '16 at 00:03

Thysy

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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. – christopher Jan 03 '17 at 10:26

score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Apr 12 '20 at 16:45

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

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

answered Apr 12 '20 at 16:45

eold

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