Final part of deploying playframework on ubuntu instance at amazon ec2

1. Setting up Play Framework
Deploying Play Framework in EC2 - part # 3
Kamarul kawnayeen

2. Preface
This is the final part of deploying playframework in EC2 tutorial series. At part
one, I showed how to setup a virtual server. At part two, I setup lamp stack on
that virtual server. In this part, I’ll show how to deploy a play application. It will
require following steps:-
➢ Install Java Development Kit (jdk)
➢ Setup typesafe activator
➢ Create & deploy play application

3. Installing JDK

4. Connect with your remote server using terminal & use the following two
command -
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java -y
sudo apt-get update

5. now, use sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer -y
hit enter to agree with the java license

6. Select “<Yes>” to install oracle jdk
Once you are done, use the following command to check java version
java -version

7. Setup Typesafe Activator

8. create a directory for activator and go there
sudo mkdir /usr/share/activator
cd /usr/share/activator
now download activator using the following command
sudo wget http://downloads.typesafe.com/typesafe-activator/1.3.2/typesafe-activator-1.3.2.zip

9. It’s downloaded :)

10. install unzip
sudo apt-get install unzip
now unzip the activator
sudo unzip typesafe-activator-1.3.2.zip

11. now, sudo chmod -R a+x activator-1.3.2
open bash.bashrc using nano
sudo nano /etc/bash.bashrc

12. Add this line
at the end of
the file

13. now either restart your virtual machine or use “source .bashrc”
go to the directory where you want to create your application and type “activator new”

14. select “play-java” and then enter application name

15. As we are working on a free t2 micro instance & we have only 1 GiB of Ram, so we must face problem in
starting the play application. An easy work around is lowering the heap memory.
So first set initial heap size to 128 M & max heap size to 512 M by the following command
export _JAVA_OPTIONS=”-Xms128m -Xmx512m”
then use the following
activator start

16. once the application started, go to your browser & type
{ip_address_of_your_virtual_machine}:9000
and hit enter
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