So, you want to launch a new server instance in Amazon AWS's EC2 service on linux. The script in this repo will install and configure Lucee for you automatically.
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Click on Launch Instance and select a new Amazon Linux AMI, then select an instance type.
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In the Configure Instance Details section, expand the Advanced Details section. Paste the following text in the user data text box:
#include https://raw.githubusercontent.com/amaroom/Lucy-On-EC2/master/boot_to_lucee.sh -
Complete the rest of the startup options.
That's it. Your new Linux instance will launch and install Tomcat8 and Lucee. After a few minute you can browse to http://<server-ip>:8080/ to see a welcome page. From this point, you can use git to bring in your ColdFusion code, or drop a WAR file with your CF code ( in the path /usr/share/tomcat8/webapps ), or just add files to the ROOT folder.
If you're using the AWS CLI, can pass this with the --user-data argument.
This script does the following:
- Update the instance with the latest patches.
- Installs Tomcat 8, Tomcat Native Libraries and GIT.
- Downloads Lucee Jars and places them in the Tomcat folder. (Lucee 5.x)
- Modifies
catalina.propertiesto add the Lucee jars to the common loader path. - Modifies the global Tomcat Web.xml file to include the Lucee Servlet's and their mappings.
- Generate's simple "Hello"
index.cfmfile and places it in the ROOT web context. - Sets proper permissions on files and folders.
- Sets Tomcat 8 to start on boot as a service.
- Reboots instance when it's done.