Grails App Deployed To RedHat OpenShift

Hi folks, quick one today... may go into detail in another post but I’m using this one to shamelessly plug an app I just launched.

This Custom Map Application is running on Red Hat OpenShift. I was turned on to this service after searching for an inexpensive TomCat server. OpenShift is Red Hat’s cloud-based Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). They give you three Gears (3 app platforms) including database services, ALL FOR FREE!! Pardon my yelling, I want to scream it from the top of a mountain. If I get big I plan on using the paid service that gives you more bandwidth, storage, usage, oh and support. Like I said maybe I make a quick how-to but think this write-up is adequate for launching a Grails app (start on Step-6).

Brass tax tips / my memory aides:

• From Terminal: rhc create-app <app name> tomcat-7
• Terminal: rhc git-clone <app name>
• Terminal:git rm -rf src/ pom.xml 
• Terminal: git commit -am "deleted default stuff"
• GGTS: create ROOT.war (apparently caps is important): war ROOT.war
• Finder: copy ROOT.war, to the webapps folder of the cloned Git
• Terminal: from the root of your cloned git (not webapps):  git add .
• Terminal:  git commit -am "put the war up there"
• Terminal:  git push

Until next time.