Running a .config file on Elastic Beanstalk?

Question

I'm trying to run a custom .config file on my elastic beanstalk. I'm following the directions on this link. I've created a file called myapp.config, and put the following in it:

container_commands:
        01_setup_apache:
        command: "cp .ebextensions/enable_mod_deflate.conf /etc/httpd/conf.d/enable_mod_deflate.conf"

When I run this, I get the following error:

"commands" in configuration file .ebextensions/myapp.config in application version myapp-0.0.33-SNAPSHOT must be a map. Update "commands" in the configuration file.

This error is really cryptic. What am I doing wrong?

My container is apache tomcat 7.

score 24 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 18 '14 at 06:54

24

Got the answer. Apparently whitespace is important. I changed:

container_commands:
        01_setup_apache:
        command: "cp .ebextensions/enable_mod_deflate.conf 
/etc/httpd/conf.d/enable_mod_deflate.conf"

to:

container_commands:
        01_setup_apache:
            command: "cp .ebextensions/enable_mod_deflate.conf /etc/httpd/conf.d/enable_mod_deflate.conf"

and now it works.

answered Apr 18 '14 at 06:54

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Spaces are important in YAML. – PachinSV Mar 24 '15 at 05:00

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 11 '16 at 00:07

The config file formats can be either yaml or json. Your original config was of yaml style but non-conformant. That is why fixing white space (which is making it yaml compliant) fixed your config. If you are writing your config in yaml, you can run it through a yaml parser to check if it is compliant.

Running a .config file on Elastic Beanstalk?

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