Django on Python 2.7 OpenShift

django_py27_openshift.md

Runtime Configuration

Create a new OpenShift app:

• rhc-create-app -a <app_name> -t diy-0.1

Login to the application host using the credentials from the above command. It will look like ssh://c8812345:123214@<app_name>-username.rhcloud.com:

• ssh c8812345:123214@<app_name>-username.rhcloud.com

Change into the application tmp directory:

• cd $OPENSHIFT_TMP_DIR

Download Python2.7 and extract:

• wget http://python.org/ftp/python/2.7.3/Python-2.7.3.tar.bz2
• tar jxf Python-2.7.3.tar.bz2

Build and install Python

• ./configure --prefix=$OPENSHIFT_RUNTIME_DIR
• make ; make install

Export new Python path for later configuration (you will need to run this if you logout, etc.):

• export PATH=$OPENSHIFT_RUNTIME_DIR/bin:$PATH

Check that new Python is used (should be Python 2.7.3:

• python -V

Install setuptools and pip

• cd $OPENSHIFT_TMP_DIR
• wget http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/s/setuptools/setuptools-0.6c11.tar.gz
• tar zxf setuptools-0.6c11.tar.gz
• cd setuptools-0.6c11
• python setup.py install
• cd $OPENSHIFT_TMP_DIR
• wget http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/pip/pip-1.1.tar.gz
• tar zxf pip-1.1.tar.gz
• cd pip-1.1
• python setup.py install

Install uWSGI

• cd $OPENSHIFT_TMP_DIR
• pip install uwsgi

Application Setup

Change (cd) into the app directory that was created from the rhc-create-app command.