Running a script from .ebextensions folder in aws elastic beanstalk - amazon-web-services

Question

I am trying to run a script from when war is uploaded so here is the contents of configurations
container_commands:
01_setup_apache:
command: "cp .ebextensions/enable_mod_deflate.conf /etc/httpd/conf.d/enable_mod_deflate.conf"
02_setup_script:
command: "sudo su root"
03_setup_script:
command: "sudo mkdir -p /home/dev"
04_setup_script:
command: "sudo chmod 777 /home/dev -R"
05_setup_script:
command: "sudo cp .ebextensions/scripts/setup.sh /home/dev/"
06_setup_script:
command: "sudo chmod +x /home/dev/setup.sh"
07_setup_script:
command: "sudo /home/dev/setup.sh"
08-restart-apache:
command: "sudo /etc/init.d/httpd restart"
I tried every thing but deployment always fail on executing setup.sh. In above example it fails on 07_setup_script
Here is log contents
] : Starting activity...
/Command 01_setup_apache] : Starting activity...
/Command 01_setup_apache] : Completed activity.
/Command 02_setup_script] : Starting activity...
/Command 02_setup_script] : Completed activity.
/Command 03_setup_script] : Starting activity...
/Command 03_setup_script] : Completed activity.
/Command 04_setup_script] : Starting activity...
/Command 04_setup_script] : Completed activity.
/Command 05_setup_script] : Starting activity...
/Command 05_setup_script] : Completed activity.
/Command 06_setup_script] : Starting activity...
/Command 06_setup_script] : Completed activity.
/Command 07_setup_script] : Starting activity...
/Command 07_setup_script] : Activity execution failed, because: sudo: unable to execute /home/dev/setup.sh: No such file or directory
(ElasticBeanstalk::ExternalInvocationError)
If ssh on instances there is no folder or file over there (/home/dev) or ( /home/dev/setup.sh) it seems previous commands were not executed but log says its completed
I know there is way to create a script file on run time, but can we avoid that and just use the above method.

Answer 1

A couple of issues. You shouldn't start trying to manage a home directory/directory structure at all, that's definitely outside of beanstalk best-practices. Also don't run things as sudo, it executes hooks as root.
Do something like this:
in .ebextension/foo.config:
container_commands:
01_restart_httpd:
command: /etc/init.d/httpd restart
files:
/etc/httpd/conf.d/enable_mod_deflate.conf:
mode: "000644"
owner: root
group: root
content: |
#content of your conf
or also
files:
/etc/httpd/conf.d/enable_mod_deflate.conf:
mode: "000644"
owner: root
group: root
content: |
#content of your conf
/opt/elasticbeanstalk/hooks/appdeploy/post/50_restart_httpd:
mode: "000777"
owner: root
group: root
content: |
#!/bin/sh
/etc/init.d/httpd restart