configure https for single instance elastic beanstalk running tomcat

1. add configuration files to the src/main/ebextensions folder as shown in following doc: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/https-singleinstance-tomcat.html
2. add the following plug in your pom file to ensure the extension folder end up in the root directory of the war file:

<plugin>

<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>

<configuration>

<webResources>

<resource>

<directory>src/main/ebextensions</directory>

<targetPath>.ebextensions</targetPath>

<filtering>true</filtering>

</resource>

</webResources>

</configuration>

</plugin>

3.   add A record to route 53 to map your domain to elastic beanstalk target xxx.us-west-2.elasticbeanstalk.com

4.  (optional) ssh (eb ssh)to the ec2 instance to make sure the configuration/key/crt files are created. For some reason, the /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf isn’t created in my case, I have to add it manually, and then restart apache