Plone cartridge for OpenShift

This package provides a Plone 4.2 cartridge for OpenShift.

Features:

• Single instance zope server
• Includes Plone 4.2 with plone.app.dexterity by default
• Shared download-cache directory in /var/cache/plone-4.2/
• stores data in OPENSHIFT_DATA_DIR
• stores log in OPENSHIFT_LOG_DIR

Installation

This cartridge was tested on a vm created using OpenShift LiveCD with stickshift-broker-0.6.5. Following this guide: https://openshift.redhat.com/community/wiki/build-your-own-paas-from-the-openshift-origin-livecd-using-liveinst

You will need tito to build this RPM:

yum install tito

Checkout and build:

git clone https://github.com/kagesenshi/cartridge-plone.git
cd cartridge-plone
tito build --rpm --test

Copy the generated RPM to your OpenShift server and install it

Edit /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/stickshift-controller-0.10.2/lib/stickshift-controller/app/models/cartridge_cache.rb and add 'plone-4.2' in FRAMEWORK_CART_NAMES

Clear the broker cache:

rm -rf /var/www/stickshift/broker/tmp/cache/*

Restart the broker:

service stickshift-broker restart

If everything is setup property, you should have 'plone-4.2' in the cartridge list

Creating an app

Create a app using this command:

rhc app create -a myplonesite -t plone-4.2

To first-run buildout, edit something in your git checkout of myplonesite, commit and push