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# Openshift Django quickstart
# Openshift quickstart: Django
This is a [Django](http://www.djangoproject.com) project that you can use as the starting point to develop your own and deploy it on an [OpenShift](https://github.com/openshift/origin) cluster.
This project is meant to be forked and used to quickly deploy a Django web application to an [OpenShift](https://github.com/openshift/origin) cluster.
It assumes you have access to an existing OpenShift installation.
You can use this as a starting point to build your own application.
## What has been done for you
## Getting started
This is a minimal Django 1.8 project. It was created with these steps:
1. Create a virtualenv
2. Manually install Django and other dependencies
3. `pip freeze > requirements.txt`
4. `django-admin startproject project .`
3. Manually update `project/settings.py` to configure `SECRET_KEY`, `DATABASE` and `STATIC_ROOT` entries.
4. `./manage.py startapp openshift`, to create the welcome page's app
## Local development
To run this project in your development machine, follow these steps:
1. (optional) Create and activate a [virtualenv](https://virtualenv.pypa.io/) (you may want to use [virtualenvwrapper](http://virtualenvwrapper.readthedocs.org/)).
2. Fork this repo and clone your fork:
`git clone https://github.com/rhcarvalho/openshift-django-quickstart.git`
`git clone https://github.com/openshift/django-ex.git`
3. Install dependencies:
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5. Open your browser and go to http://127.0.0.1:8000, you will be greeted with a welcome page.
## What has been done for you
This is a minimal Django 1.8 project. It was created with these steps:
## Special files in this repository
1. Create a virtualenv
2. Manually install requirements
3. `pip freeze > requirements.txt`
4. `django-admin startproject PROJECT_NAME .`
3. Manually update `project/settings.py` to configure `SECRET_KEY`, `DATABASE` and `STATIC_ROOT` entries.
4. `./manage.py startapp openshift`, to create the welcome page's app
[TODO]
```
.sti/ - scripts used by source-to-image
openshift/ - application templates
```
## Deploying to OpenShift
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After adjusting your preferences (or accepting the defaults), your application will be built and deployed.
You will probably want to set the `GIT_REPOSITORY` parameter to point to your fork.
## Data persistence
[TODO]