AWS Elastic Beanstalk Tomcat works with .war but not .zip
I am trying to deploy an application to EC2 with elastic beanstalk and tomcat. In order to try and fix a different problem I had I changed my uploaded file from a .war to a .zip in order to include a .ebextensions folder. However, now I get the following error when trying to enter the website: I figured that there might be a problem with the .config file I added, so I tried zipping the .war file alone, however I get the exact same error, so this is ruled out. TL/DR: Put 2 .war files in the .zip file instead of 1. I realize this post is nearly 18 months old. But I experienced exactly the same