Running a play framework app in Amazon EC2 micro instance

Question

I have a really basic play! app which simply handles a couple of normal GET and POST requests and talks to a MySQL database, nothing fancy.

I ran play dist

Answer 1

Play Framework 2.3 now has a nifty little feature.

$ /path/to/bin/ -mem 512 -J-server

Shoule get the job done.

Read http://www.playframework.com/documentation/2.3-SNAPSHOT/ProductionConfiguration

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Specifying additional JVM arguments You can specify any JVM arguments to the start script. Otherwise the default JVM settings will be used:

$ /path/to/bin/ -J-Xms128M -J-Xmx512m -J-server As a convenience you can also set memory min, max, permgen and the reserved code cache size in one go; a formula is used to determine these values given the supplied parameter (which represents maximum memory):

$ /path/to/bin/ -mem 512 -J-server