Launch Lucee in EC2 in one step

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.

Install

Using the Amazon Console

• Click on Launch Instance and select a new Amazon Linux AMI, then select an instance type.

• 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.

What it does

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.properties to 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.cfm file 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.