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Tom Kim
Tom Kim

Reputation: 534

OpenShift WordPress Theme Developer workflow

I create a application with Cartridges,

I commit my WP file, plugin and themes into GIT. In my .gitignore, i added 

wp-content/uploads

I did go through the book "Getting Started with OpenShift", as the book chapter 8 said

“The other directory available to you is the OpenShift data directory, which is currently at $OPENSHIFT_HOMEDIR/app-root/data. We use the environment variable OPENSHIFT_DATA_DIR to point to this location. ”

“The data directory is where your application should store its files and put configuration settings, download themes, or generally anything you want to survive restarts and Git pushes.”

Excerpt From: Steven Pousty and Katie J. Miller. “Getting Started With OpenShift.”

I access to SSH. When I upload my media in WordPress, It is store inside

$OPENSHIFT_REPO_DIR/php/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/1.jpg

1.How do I pointed it to?

$OPENSHIFT_DATA_DIR/uploads

  1. If that is the case, in my .openshift/action_hooks/deploy file, I had added this script

    if [ ! -d ${OPENSHIFT_DATA_DIR}uploads ]; then mkdir ${OPENSHIFT_DATA_DIR}uploads fi

    ln -sf ${OPENSHIFT_DATA_DIR}uploads ${OPENSHIFT_REPO_DIR}php/wp-content/

However, the soft link script does not did it job, during my GIT PUSH, it shows the following error.

remote: ln: target `/var/lib/openshift/[ID]/app-root/runtime/repo/php/wp-content/' is not a directory: No such file or directory

my guess is, the $OPENSHIFT_REPO_DIR/php/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/1.jpg , the uploads folder already removed before the script do it job.

How do I keep the uploads folder content in such a situation. OpenShift expert kindly help in this matter.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 473

Answers (2)

Tom Kim
Tom Kim

Reputation: 534

After I had few attempt of the build script, I finally found out what is my problem.

To answer my own questions

  1. How do I point it. Create a symlink. During the GIT push, it will definitely delete your uploads folder ($OPENSHIFT_REPO_DIR/wp-content/uploads/).

This is the code you should use, just remove the php folder after the repo.

if [ ! -d ${OPENSHIFT_DATA_DIR}uploads ]; then
    mkdir ${OPENSHIFT_DATA_DIR}uploads
fi

ln -sf ${OPENSHIFT_DATA_DIR}uploads   ${OPENSHIFT_REPO_DIR}wp-content/

I hope it's help.

Upvotes: 2

TheSteve0
TheSteve0

Reputation: 3526

This file has plenty of examples

https://github.com/openshift/wordpress-example/blob/master/.openshift/action_hooks/deploy

The problem is that with every git push we are going to overwrite that directory.

I think a better idea is with every build rsync contents from your repo over to the data directory where it expects to find the themes (rather than doing the symlink)

Upvotes: 1

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