diff --git a/tests/test_ec2driver.py b/tests/test_ec2driver.py
index 9edbd44..5bfb2d1 100644
--- a/tests/test_ec2driver.py
+++ b/tests/test_ec2driver.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ from ..credentials import get_nova_creds
 
 from boto import ec2
 from ..ec2driver_config import *
-
+import urllib2
 
 class EC2DriverTest(unittest.TestCase):
     _multiprocess_shared_ = True
@@ -164,6 +164,38 @@ class EC2DriverTest(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(ip_before_resize, ip_after_resize,
                          "Public IP Address should be same before and after the resize")
 
+    def test_user_data(self):
+        """To test the spawn method by providing a file user_data for config drive.
+        Will bring up a LAMP server.
+        """
+        content = open('user_data', 'r')
+        user_data_content = content.read()
+        image = self.nova.images.find(name="cirros-0.3.1-x86_64-uec")
+        flavor = self.nova.flavors.find(name="m1.tiny")
+        server = self.nova.servers.create(name="cirros-test", image=image.id, flavor=flavor.id,
+                                          userdata=user_data_content)
+        instance = self.nova.servers.get(server.id)
+        while instance.status != 'ACTIVE':
+            time.sleep(10)
+            instance = self.nova.servers.get(server.id)
+        self.servers.append(instance)
+
+        ec2_instance = self.ec2_conn.get_only_instances(instance_ids=[instance.metadata['ec2_id']], filters=None,
+                                                        dry_run=False, max_results=None)
+        print ec2_instance
+        print ec2_instance[0].ip_address
+        #getting the public ip of the ec2 instance
+        url = "http://"+ec2_instance[0].ip_address+"/phpinfo.php"
+
+        #wait for the instance to downalod all the dependencies for a LAMP server
+        time.sleep(300)
+        print url
+        raw_response = urllib2.urlopen(url)
+        print raw_response
+        self.assertEqual(raw_response.code, 200)
+
+
+
     @classmethod
     def tearDown(self):
         print "Cleanup: Destroying the instance used for testing"
diff --git a/tests/user_data b/tests/user_data
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e80efed
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/user_data
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+#install the web server, to check that the config_drive has been passed to the guest machine and test for webpage
+set -e -x
+yum update -y
+yum groupinstall -y "Web Server" "MySQL Database" "PHP Support"
+yum install -y php-mysql
+service httpd start
+chkconfig httpd on
+groupadd www
+usermod -a -G www ec2-user
+chown -R root:www /var/www
+chmod 2775 /var/www
+find /var/www -type d -exec chmod 2775 {} +
+find /var/www -type f -exec chmod 0664 {} +
+echo "<?php phpinfo(); ?>" > /var/www/html/phpinfo.php
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