openshift/openshift-tomcat-quickstart — pull request #3 by gmazza (2013-07-17 22:04:04+00:00)
Title: Update the "start" action hook to also propagate the Tomcat "lib" and "conf" folders to the OpenShift Tomcat instance

Hi presently, in the "start" action hook, only the contents of the tomcat/webapps folder (WARs) are propagated from the Git repo to the Tomcat instance on OpenShift. However, new web applications frequently involve adding libraries to the tomcat/lib folder and modifying configuration files (logging and server.xml) in the tomcat/conf folder. Apache Roller, for example, requires two additional JARs (Java Mail and JDBC driver) in Tomcat/lib as well as mail and logging configuration in tomcat/conf.

Right now I have to tell users to manually update the start script to propagate /conf and /lib file data over: http://www.jroller.com/gmazza/entry/apache_roller_on_openshift#quickstartUpdate, I'd like to be able to remove this step from the instructions by having this quickstart do that by default. Thanks!