Deploy Grails app to the EC2 instance

Deploy Grails app to the EC2 instance

1) Download private_key.pem private key for amazon instance connection to the private folder

2) cd ~/private

3) chmod 400 private_key.pem

4) ssh -i ./private_key.pem ubuntu@my.ec2.com

5) Install Tomcat

tar xvzf apache-tomcat-7.0.59.tar.gz
wget http://apache.cp.if.ua/tomcat/tomcat-7/v7.0.59/bin/apache-tomcat-7.0.59.tar.gz

6) Get ROOT.war file of your Grails app with production settings

7) Copy ROOT.war to remote server

scp -i ../../../../private/private_key.pem ROOT.war ubuntu@my.ec2.com:/opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.59/webapps

8) Rename apache-tomcat-7.0.59 to AppName

9) Enable log

tail -f catalina.out

10) Srartup

/opt/AppName/bin$ ./catalina.sh srartup

============= Additional notes ================

// Reloading nginx configuration

/etc/nginx/sites-available# /etc/init.d/nginx reload

// Delete all from /opt/AppName/temp and /opt/AppName/work from db.

// Terminate tomcat
ps aux | grep tomcat
sudo kill -9 PORT

// Delete ROOT folder from /opt/AppName/webapps
sudo rm -r ROOT

// Stop process
ps aux|grep tomcat
lsof -i:8127
kill 4749