[ :: NOT REALLY FOR INTERNET CONSUMPTION :: ]

~~ use at your own risk ~~

A Laravel 4.2.* QuickStart App for running on OpenShift

Really this repo is just a few files .openshift/action_hooks/build && .openshift/action_hooks/deploy. Strictyly speaking I don't know if the .openshift/action_hooks/post_deploy is needed, but I needed it inside Origin.

There are some Laravel files in .openshift/misc that are worth looking at.

##Howto Use this QuickStart

Create a new application from the PHP 5.4 Cartridge, adding MySQL 5.5 and setting this repo as the 'Optional URL' under'SourceCode'. Set 'scaling' now - because I think it's hard to update after the initial creation of the application.

Or run the following to use rhc in the terminal

rhc app create -a <app-name> --from-code https://github.com/deanhowe/open-shift-laravel-4.2.x-quickstart-app php-5.4 mysql-5.5 --scaling

This might take a while, it's downloading Laravel (about 25MB).

I'm going to assume you have the Laravel Installer installed locally, in which case run this...

laravel new laravel

Wait for that to download/install and then...

cd laravel && mv ./* ../ && mv ./.git* ../ && cd ../ & rm -fr laravel

Check the git repo status with git status.

Add the new files to the git repo…

git add CONTRIBUTING.md app artisan bootstrap composer.json phpunit.xml readme.md server.php public

Then git push

git push

What the scripts actually do…

Build

• Updates composer to the latest version & creates a bash alias to it
• Installs Laravel into OPENSHIFT_BUILD_DEPENDENCIES_DIR
• Updates your ~/.bash_profile on the server to make things a little more friendly...

Deploy

• Link the vendor directory from the build dependancies into the repo
• Updates your ./app/config/* files to use any config files in .openshift/misc/config/*
• Allows you to run Artisan commands listed in a marker file .openshift/markers/artisan