AWS error while parsing .config YAML file in .ebextension - amazon-web-services

Question

When deploying to Elasticbeanstalk, my deploy fails with a parsing error caused by a .config file i have in the .ebextension folder, but it seems ok to me. Anyone can tell me how to fix it?
The .config file looks like this:
files:
"/opt/elasticbeanstalk/hooks/appdeploy/post/01_copy_htaccess_after_deployment.sh":
mode: "000755",
owner: root,
group: root,
content: |
yes | /bin/cp /var/app/current/.htaccess.new /var/app/current/.htaccess
And the error:
The configuration file
.ebextensions/08_htaccess_create_script_post_deploy.config in
application version
git-bce52a5381c7ac6735249419c48b1fe116168610-1494415808045 contains
invalid YAML or JSON. YAML exception: Invalid Yaml: while parsing a
block mapping in "", line 3, column 10: mode: "000755", ^
expected , but found FlowEntry in "", line 3,
column 24: mode: "000755", ^ , JSON exception: Invalid JSON:
Unexpected character (f) at position 0.. Update the configuration
file.

Answer 1

according to the aws dcumentation you dont need to use comas behind mode owner and group. so your yml config file should look like this:
files:
"/opt/elasticbeanstalk/hooks/appdeploy/post/01_copy_htaccess_after_deployment.sh":
mode: "000755"
owner: root
group: root
content: |
yes | /bin/cp /var/app/current/.htaccess.new /var/app/current/.htaccess
and here is an example of the syntax
files:
"target file location on disk":
mode: "six-digit octal value"
owner: name of owning user for file
group: name of owning group for file
source: URL
authentication: authentication name:
"target file location on disk":
mode: "six-digit octal value"
owner: name of owning user for file
group: name of owning group for file
content: |
this is my content
encoding: encoding format
authentication: authentication name: