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Getting a time out error when trying to navigate to the application in a browser

Double check your security groups and make sure that inbound traffic on HTTPS is allowed.

Error when running finish-install.sh : FAILED to create metadata for user, HTTP status=302

The repository url must match exactly. Typically this happens when http is typed instead of https. 

Unable to start repository after installation, error is a classNotFoundException

SEVERE: Servlet.service() for servlet [jsp] in context with path [] threw exception
[org.eaglei.repository.status.InternalServerErrorException: javax.servlet.ServletException: 
javax.naming.NamingException: Could not create resource factory instance [Root exception is 
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.BasicDataSourceFactory]] 

This is an indication that tomcat has either been incorrectly installed or is missing a key jar file. It seems certain distributions do not include this jar file. Download the jar manually and place it in the tomcat's lib folder, /opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.39/lib. If your distribution does have this jar, try replacing it with the download.