Django on Openshift Python 2.7 gear

This repository helps you to start running the new style Django 1.6+ on an Openshift python 2.7 gear

The Django project is called main but feel free to change it. The default database is sqlite3 and is found in $OPENSHIFT_DATA_DIR/db.sqlite3 when running in Openshift or in the projects root folder when running locally with Django's test server

The requirements file is setup for the latest Django version at the time of writting (1.7) but the project has been tested also on 1.6

The project has been changed as little as possible from the default. Only the main/wsgi.py file that is created within the project folder has been moved to the root folder to fit with Openshift's default behaviour

The easiest way to use this template is to create a Openshift project using the web site. Choose the Python 2.7 cartridge, then on the setting page enter your chosen project name. In the "Source Code" input box enter the dhango-on-openshift https link (https://github.com/ptav/django-on-openshift.git). Chose your preferred scaling option and click he "Create Application" button. Once finished you can clone the project locally.

Before you push the project for the first time:

1. Update setup.py
2. Update SECRET_KEY in main/settings.py
3. git push
4. ssh into Openshift account and then: cd app-root/runtime/repo and python manage.py createsuperuser and finally enter the admin user credentials

On the first push the database is created but no admin user is setup, hence the need for step 4 above.

Enjoy!