Joomla in the cloud

What's this about ?

OpenShift is a free, cloud-based application platform for Java, Perl, PHP (5.3), Python, and Ruby applications including various database adapters including MySQL (5.1).

• Where ? https://openshift.redhat.com

Open ?

From When will OpenShift Open Source?

We are planning to open source but we don't have a timeframe just yet. Part of the code came from an acquisition and we need to work through some legal processes and create a development environment in order to engage the community.

Go Joomla!

The following is taken from the "readme" of the OpenShift Joomla! example repo on GitHub.

• Create an account at http://openshift.redhat.com/, install the client tools and create your subdomain (see: Quickstart).
• Create a php-5.3 application:

(you can call your application whatever you want).

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

• Add MySQL support:

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

• Add this upstream Joomla repo:

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

Note that the git pull above can be used later to pull updates to Joomla

• Push the repo upstream:

git push

That's it.

Joomla! is installed and running.

• Finally switch to your web browser and checkout your application at:
  • http://joomla-<your_domain>.rhcloud.com

• The default admin account is:
  • admin/4dm1n.

• Change the password NOW !!
• And have a lot of Fun =;)

Resources

• Client tools installation on Windows, Linux and Mac.
• Examples on GitHub (over 20 examples including Joomla!, Drupal, Wordpress, Mediawiki, Redmine, Piwik, Sugar CRM, Cake PHP and others)
• Adding PHPMyAdmin to an existing application
• The IRC channel is at #openshift