OpenShift: How to upload a directory?

Question

I am using OpenShift with Tomcat 7. I am trying to scp a directory into webapps. I search online and the recursion option is -r. However, when I type rhc help scp, the -r option is

-r, --remote-path file_path Remote filesystem path

So is there a recursion option for scp in OpenShift? How can I upload a directory in OpenShift?

Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you.

Answer 1

scp localfile gearnumber@myapp.rhcloud.com:app-root/data

scp localdir -r gearnumber@myapp.rhcloud.com:app-root/data

The only directory where your user has write permission is app-root/data, you can reference it from your code with the environment variable OPENSHIFT_DATA_DIR