Code to get CLIFF working on a GCP instance after installing Tomcat8 using GCP Deployment Manager

launch-cliff-gcp.sh

#!/bin/sh

## This is copy-pasta from the original Medialab script with some mods
## https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mediacloud/cliff-docker/master/launch.sh

echo "Getting CLIFF..."
echo "  downloading Cliff WAR file from GitHub"
wget https://github.com/mitmedialab/CLIFF/releases/download/v2.6.1/cliff-2.6.1.war
sudo mv cliff-2.6.1.war /var/lib/tomcat8/webapps/
echo "  done (copied /var/lib/tomcat8/webapps/)"
echo "Downloading pre-built IndexDirectory and putting in /etc/cliff2/"
cd; wget https://github.com/mediacloud/mediacloud-clavin-build-geonames-index/releases/download/2019-09-06/IndexDirectory.tar.gz
tar xfz IndexDirectory.tar.gz
sudo mkdir /etc/cliff2
sudo mv IndexDirectory /etc/cliff2/IndexDirectory
export INDEX_PATH="/etc/cliff2/IndexDirectory"
echo "  set INDEX_PATH to /etc/cliff2/IndexDirectory"
echo "Restart Tomcat..."
sudo systemctl restart tomcat8.service
echo "  done - you should try hitting a URL now to see if it works!"
echo "  try: