Openshift Laravel Quickstart

This is an Openshift Quickstart for Laravel 4.

Installation on Openshift Online - Using PHP 5.3 and MySQL 5.5 Cartridges

When using this quickstart with Openshift Online, you should be aware that PHP 5.4 cartridges do not come bundled with PHP Mcrypt (but will be included soon) which is needed by Laravel 4 for password Hashing. As a temporary workaround, you will need to install the PHP 5.3 and MySQL 5.5 cartridges before installing this quickstart for Laravel (See example laravel install). You can use the web console or RHC cli

rhc create app laravel php-5.3
rhc cartridge add mysql-5.5 -a laravel

Installation on Openshift Origin - Using PHP 5.4 and MySQL 5.5 Cartridges

You will need to install the PHP 5.4 and MySQL 5.5 cartridges before installing this quickstart for Laravel. You can use the web console or RHC cli. Also be sure to install PHP 5.4 Mcrypt package/extension.

rhc create app laravel php-5.4
rhc cartridge add mysql-5.5 -a laravel

After installing PHP and MySQL cartridges, add the quickstart github repository and pull afterwhich you can push to your Openshift repository

git remote add upstream -m master git@github.com:muffycompo/openshift-laravel4-quickstart-app.git
git pull -s recursive -X theirs upstream master

NOTE: See After Openshift application creation for installing Laravel dependencies.

Installation on Openshift Origin - Using Openshift Origin Instant App

This Quickstart is also configured to utilize your Openshift Origin installation. To provide Laravel 4 as an instant app for Openshift Origin, you will need to modify /etc/openshift/quickstarts.json and add the following to the end of the file

{
	"quickstart": {
		"id": "10",
		"name": "Laravel 4",
		"website": "http://www.laravel.com",
		"initial_git_url": "git://github.com/muffycompo/openshift-laravel4-quickstart-app.git",
		"cartridges": ["php-5.4", "mysql-5.5"],
		"summary": "Laravel is a PHP web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax.",
		"tags": ["php", "instant_app", "framework", "mysql"],
		"admin_tags": []
	}
}

After Openshift application creation

You should remove the comment # in .openshift/actions_hooks/build by changing

#( unset GIT_DIR ; cd $OPENSHIFT_REPO_DIR ; php $OPENSHIFT_DATA_DIR/composer.phar -q --no-ansi install )

to become

( unset GIT_DIR ; cd $OPENSHIFT_REPO_DIR ; php $OPENSHIFT_DATA_DIR/composer.phar -q --no-ansi install )

Now using git

git add .
git commit -a -m 'Install Laravel 4 Composer Dependencies'
git push

Post Installation

After the installation of composer dependencies, Laravel 4 is ready to go. We have setup your database credentials app/config/database.php to use Openshift environment variables (OPENSHIFT*).