YAML exception: Invalid Yaml - amazon-web-services

Question

I am trying to implement encryption a Tomcat Server on AWS Elastic Beanstalk.
I have just followed this, and created a .ebextensions/https-instance.config file.
But when I deploy to the server, I get:
The configuration file .ebextensions/https-instance.config in
application version thewhozoo-1.0.0.25 contains invalid YAML or JSON.
YAML exception: Invalid Yaml: while scanning a simple key in
"", line 4, column 1: -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- ^ could not
found expected ':' in "", line 5, column 1:
MIIDnDCCAoACCQCzIxYAYJicIjANBgkq ... ^ , JSON exception: Invalid JSON:
Unexpected character (f) at position 0.. Update the configuration
file.
What I am doing incorrectly?
UPDATE
I changed the file to:
But get the following:
The configuration file .ebextensions/https-instance.config in
application version thewhozoo-1.0.0.31 contains invalid YAML or JSON.
YAML exception: Invalid Yaml: while parsing a block mapping in
"", line 7, column 5: mode: "000400" ^ expected ,
but found Scalar in "", line 32, column 6: -----END
CERTIFICATE----- ^ , JSON exception: Invalid JSON: Unexpected
character (p) at position 0.. Update the configuration file.

Answer 1

You'll have to indent your certificate data more than the column of content:
files:
/etc/pki/tls/certs/server.crt:
content: |
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----
MI.......
Wk.......
That is the way the literal scalar in block style works. As you can have empty lines in such a literal scalar, as well as (further) indented lines, the parser would otherwise not know that your scalar had ended or not (that is would not assume /etc/pki/tls/certs/server.key: to be part of the literal scalar).