Uploading a WAR file

[stevet]

I just built a grails-app, turned it into a WAR file, and uploaded it to CloudFoundry.

During the upload process I was asked for a CONTEXT ROOT. Not sure what that means.

Also, I was asked for database name, user, and password. Not sure if my grails-app needs this or not.

Any help would be appreciated.

[jamestastic]

The context root is the root path in the URL past the host name which is used to access your application. Conventionally it is the same as the name of your war file.

For example, if I deploy mywebapp.war to tomcat, then by convention I can access it at http://localhost:8080/mywebapp

In this case, "/mywebapp" is the context root.

As for the database settings, I had the same problem when deploying to Cloud Foundry; it prompted me for apparently required database settings but my application did not use a database. I just provided a database name, user, and password that seemed appropriate as though my application did need a database, and assumed it would be created but unused. It didn't cause any issues during deployment.

[ceracm]

Cloud Foundry creates the database with the settings you specify:

* If your application needs a database => enter the schema name, user id, and password that your application expects
* If you application does not need a database => enter some dummy values and ignore the database

[stevet]

Thanks, that makes sense.

When deploying to EC2 there's a field for the public IP (the Elastic IP address). I'm not sure what (if anything) to place in this field.

[dvolk]

The Elastic IP is a feature of AWS that is nicely described here: http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AW...ddressing.html

Essencially, you can reserve an IP address from Amazon, and assign it to an already running instance. It enables mapping DNS entries to Amazon EC2 instances.

If you don't have any Elastic IP addresses reserved, you don't need to enter anything in this field when launching your application.

[stevet]

Thanks. I don't need an elastic IP, so my next question would be the proper method for connecting to my EC2-deployed webapp with my local browser.

[dvolk]

Once you application is launched and you see it in the list of running deployments, you click on in, and end up on the Deployment Details page. There will be a link "Go to Homepage", which will bring you to the home page of you newly deployed application.

[stevet]

Yes I can see it and it works. Thanks for the help!