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trouble with eclipse and beanstalk

Hello, I’m currently working on deploying skills to aws using the elastic beanstalk. I am using eclipse with the added tool chain and I am able to test my skills locally, however I am unable to add on voice services using the developer portal.On eclipse I am using the "deploy to aws beanstalk" option and I get a http url. However when I try to register the url as a skill in the developer portal I get this error: Error: Please provide a valid, secure URL in the form ' https://myskill.ishere.com/somepath' Does anybody know how to solve this?
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If you go to your Electric Beanstalk home page: https://console.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/home?region=us-east-1 You should see the root of your application's URL there. (Mine is EchoDevTestEnv-65qiix3m3d.elasticbeanstalk.com, yours will look similar.) Depending on how you set up your servlet, the endpoint URL will be this plus the name of the servlet. (E.g. https://echodevtestenv-65qiix3m3d.elasticbeanstalk.com/watson for my Watson demo.)
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whats weird is that i'm seeing a http url and the developer portal for Alexa is only accepting a https url... is there anyway of generating it as https?
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The steps in "Deploying a Web Service for an Alexa Skill to AWS Elastic Beanstalk", https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/alexa/alexa-skills-kit/docs/deploying-a-web-service-for-an-alexa-skill-to-aws-elastic-beanstalk don't do a good job of explaining how to turn on SSL. If you follow "Using the Alexa Skills Kit Samples (Java)" https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/alexa/alexa-skills-kit/docs/using-the-alexa-skills-kit-samples-java instead, the "Configuring the Elastic Beanstalk Environment to Use HTTPS" section explains how to enable SSL.
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Awesome that seemed to work! but I think something is wrong with my code... do you know of any good tutorials I can follow to get a hello world working?
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The only tutorials I know of are the Amazon ones. I wrote a book ( http://www.amazon.com/How-Program-Amazon-Echo-Development-ebook/dp/B011J6AP26 ) but I, intentionally, tried not to overlap with Amazon stuff. So it gives a bunch of advice, but it's mostly useful after you already have things working.
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