= OpenShift =
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== Introduction ==

[https://www.openshift.com/ OpenShift] is an Open Hybrid Cloud Application Platform / PaaS by Red Hat.It has a free plan as well as enterprise pricing options.
== Deployment Steps ==

=== Install RHC===

The first step is to create an account on OpenShift - it's free and easy.

The next step is to intstall RHC.RHC is the OpenShift client tool. The simplest way to install it is to do 

{{{
sudo gem install rhc
}}}
=== Deploy the template Web2py app ===
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Now we create a blank web2py app and get it running on OpenShift. For this we use the following [https://github.com/prelegalwonder/openshift_web2py repo].

You can follow the instructions given in the readme except change the Python version to 2.7 instead of 2.6

The basic steps are-

Create a python-2.7 application

{{{

    rhc app create -a YOUR_APP_NAME -t python-2.7
}}}

Add this upstream repo

{{{
    cd web2py
    git remote add upstream -m master git://github.com/prelegalwonder/openshift_web2py.git
    git pull -s recursive -X theirs upstream master

Note: If you want a specific release and not the latest snapshot, 
replace "master" with the branch name in the above lines (ie. 2.3.2).
}}}
    
Then push the repo upstream
{{{
    git push
}}}

That's it, you can now checkout your application at:
{{{
    http://YOUR_APP_NAME-$yournamespace.rhcloud.com 
    # you'll be prompted for your namespace while creating your account, you needn't worry about it.
}}}

=== Package and deploy Eden ===

=== Updates ===