Openshift python -2.7, django-1.6 example

Openshift27.md

Steps to create in OPENSHIFT

1. Create a Python27 app in Openshift

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create a python2.7 application in openshift

if you still don't uploaded the ssh publickey to openshift, then doit:

create an sshkey ssh-keygen -t rsa and upload the publickey(cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub) to openshift

2. Clone the application using git

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ie git clone ssh://[email protected]/~/git/n.git/

Now a folder is created with files : requirements.txt,setup.py and wsgi.py

3. Edit the file wsgi.py

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Replace the whole content by:

Note: You need to search and replace <Project Name> with your django project name:

#!/usr/bin/python
import os, sys

os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = '<Project Name>.settings'
sys.path.append(os.path.join(os.environ['OPENSHIFT_REPO_DIR'],'<Project Name>'))

virtenv = os.path.join(os.environ['OPENSHIFT_PYTHON_DIR'],'virtenv')
virtualenv = os.path.join(virtenv, 'bin/activate_this.py')
try:execfile(virtualenv, dict(__file__=virtualenv))
except IOError:pass

from django.core.handlers import wsgi
application = wsgi.WSGIHandler()

4. Edit the setup.py file :

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You need to edit line:

install_requires=['Django',],

5. Copy your django project folder to it

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or you can also run: django-admin.py startproject <project Name>

6. To serve static files

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add to below lines to your project's urls.py:

from django.contrib.staticfiles.urls import staticfiles_urlpatterns

#only work if DEBUG is True 
urlpatterns += staticfiles_urlpatterns()

7. create a .gitignore file

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*.py[cow]
*~
*.sqlite3
yatchclub/modules

it is important to add sqlite database file or else each time you push, the database gets replaced.

you can also add unwanted folders like: yatchclub/modules

8. Commit and push to server

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git add .
git commit -a -m "Initialization"
git push

9. ssh into app and run syncdb

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ssh [email protected]
cd app-root/repo/<Project Name>/
python manage.py syncdb