title: Openshift inter-gear communication
body: <p>I'm developing an app at OpenShift which consists on a node.js gear and a php gear.</p>
  
  <p>The node.js gear must communicate with the php one, so for now, in node.js i'm just doing a normal http request to the php gear.</p>
  
  <p>But I read there is a routable IP to intercomunicate gears through port 8080 using HTTP (<a href="https://www.openshift.com/forums/openshift/intra-gear-instance-communications" rel="nofollow">https://www.openshift.com/forums/openshift/intra-gear-instance-communications</a>) but have no clue on how to get that IP.</p>
  
  <p>I have looked at env vars but there is nothing and using the domain name or the loopback IP does not connect on port 8080.</p>
  
  <p>Any idea on how to get that IP or what i'm missing?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks.</p>