Smartfox Server Configuration help required on ElasticBeanStalk with Tomcat Platform.

To address your issue with accessing the SmartFox Server admin console on AWS Elastic Beanstalk using the Tomcat platform, you'll need to make some adjustments to your configuration. Here are some suggestions to help resolve the problem:

1. Proxy Server Configuration: Elastic Beanstalk uses nginx as the default reverse proxy for Tomcat environments. To support WebSocket connections required by SmartFox Server, you'll need to modify the nginx configuration.

2. Custom nginx Configuration: Create a custom nginx configuration file to override the default settings. You can do this by adding a file named .ebextensions/nginx/nginx.conf in your source bundle. This file will replace the default nginx configuration used by Elastic Beanstalk.

3. WebSocket Support: In your custom nginx configuration, you need to include directives to support WebSocket connections. Here's an example of what you might include in your nginx.conf file:

http {
map $http_upgrade $connection_upgrade {
default upgrade;
''      close;
}

server {
listen 80;

location / {
proxy_pass http://localhost:8080;
proxy_http_version 1.1;
proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
proxy_set_header Connection $connection_upgrade;
proxy_set_header Host $host;
}
}
}

This configuration sets up WebSocket support and proxies requests to your SmartFox Server running on port 8080.

4. Include Elastic Beanstalk Configurations: To maintain Elastic Beanstalk's built-in functionality, make sure to include the following line in the server block of your nginx configuration:

include conf.d/elasticbeanstalk/*.conf;

5. Port Configuration: Ensure that your SmartFox Server is configured to listen on the correct port (8080 in the example above) and that this port matches the one specified in your nginx configuration.

6. Security Group Settings: Check your EC2 instance's security group to ensure that it allows inbound traffic on the necessary ports for both HTTP and WebSocket connections.

After making these changes, redeploy your application to Elastic Beanstalk. This should allow the nginx proxy to correctly handle WebSocket connections and route traffic to your SmartFox Server, including the admin console.

Remember to test thoroughly after making these changes, as they may affect other aspects of your application's behavior on Elastic Beanstalk.

Sources
Using the Elastic Beanstalk Tomcat platform - AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Configuring the proxy server - AWS Elastic Beanstalk