Drupal on OpenShift Express

This git repository helps you get up and running quickly w/ a Drupal installation on OpenShift Express. The backend database is MySQL and the database name is the same as your application name (using $_ENV['OPENSHIFT_APP_NAME']). You can name your application whatever you want. However, per default the name of the database will always match the application so you might have to update .openshift/action_hooks/deploy and php/sites/default/settings.php.

Running on OpenShift

Create an account at http://openshift.redhat.com/

Create a php-5.3 application

rhc-create-app -a drupal -t php-5.3

Add MySQL support to your application

rhc-ctl-app -a drupal -e add-mysql-5.1

Add this upstream drupal repo

cd drupal
git remote add upstream -m master git://github.com/openshift/drupal-example.git
git pull -s recursive -X theirs upstream master

# note: if you named your application something other than 'drupal' make sure to edit
#       php/sites/default/settings.php and modify the database to match the name
#       of your application.

Then push the repo upstream

git push

That's it, you can now checkout your application at: http://drupal-$yournamespace.rhcloud.com

Default Admin Username: Admin Default Password: OpenShiftAdmin

Updates

In order to update or upgrade to the latest drupal, you'll need to re-pull and re-push.

Pull from upstream: cd drupal/ git pull -s recursive -X theirs upstream master Push the new changes upstream git push

Repo layout

php/ - Externally exposed php code goes here libs/ - Additional libraries misc/ - For not-externally exposed php code ../data - For persistent data deplist.txt - list of pears to install .openshift/action_hooks/build - Script that gets run every push, just prior to starting your app

Notes about layout

Please leave php, libs and data directories but feel free to create additional directories if needed.

Note: Every time you push, everything in your remote repo dir gets recreated please store long term items (like an sqlite database) in ../data which will persist between pushes of your repo.

deplist.txt

A list of pears to install, line by line on the server. This will happen when the user git pushes.

Additional information

Link to additional information will be here, when we have it :)