This document explains how to populate a MySQL database within OpenShift. In this example we have an application with three gears; HAProxy, PHP and MySQL. We have RHC configured. We have the SQL dump file available via http but it could be by ftp or ssh.
First we connect to the OpenShift application from our workstations. My OpenShift application is called “phptest”:
rhc ssh phptest
Now we get the SQL dump:
cd ~/app-root/data/ wget www.exmaple.com/mydump.sql
Create our database:
mysql create database mydb; quit
Now we can import our data:
mysql mydb < mydump.sql rm ~/app-root/data/mydump.sql
At this stage you have a populated MySQL database.
