Tips and Tricks for April 1, 2013

Platform-as-a-service makes deploying applications to the cloud fast and easy. But, to get the most out of the OpenShift PaaS, it helps to stay abreast of the interesting technical issues plus their workarounds and solutions. We've made this easy with a weekly tips and tricks blog.

Tips for installing the rhc client tools

Here are Tips for installing the rhc client tools. For detailed instructions, please review rhc client tools installation page.

Tricks for avoiding Unknown key: r (ArgumentError) thrown on rhc client command ssh connection

Here is a Trick for avoiding Unknown key: r (ArgumentError) thrown on rhc client command ssh connection. Thanks @John for reporting the issue and testing the workaround.

Tips on how to connect to MySQL from PHP

Here are Tips on how to connect to MySQL from PHP. Thanks @borgmanmartinynfp for the tips!

Trick on how to avoid MongoDB connection failures

Here are Trick on how to avoid MongoDB connection failures. Thanks @gregorifaroux for the help!

Tips for avoiding PHPMailer authentication errors

Here are Tips for avoiding PHPMailer authentication errors. Thanks @Sumana for the help!

Tips on how to add libraries to Tomcat applications

Here are Tips on how to add libraries to Tomcat applications. Thanks @rafaeltorquatoonddy for the tips!

Special thanks to all Community users who helped report these issues on IRC, Forums and the mailing list. Without you, we won't know what we have to fix nor how we can improve. So please keep the questions coming.