Installation/OpenShift

Here is a quick guide to deploy Diaspora* on OpenShift, the cloud solution powered by RedHat

1. Create an account (it's free !) 2. Choose Ruby on Rails application 3. Choose a public URL and change "Source Code" to git://github.com/diaspora/diaspora.git 4. Keep a copy of your MySQL settings, you will need it ;) 5. Connect to your cloud with ssh : You have a example with git : git clone ssh://a-lot-of-number-and-letters@yourappli-yournamspace.rhcloud.com/~/git/timmy.git/ Connect by transform this command to ssh a-lot-of-number-and-letters@yourappli-yournamspace.rhcloud.com

You probably need to set a public key in your account setting first. If you don't have one, generate one with sh-keygen and put it in .ssh in your home

In your cloud, go to the app folder : cd app-root/repo/ run bundle install : bundle install

edit your diaspora.yaml and database.yaml file : cd config mv diaspora.yaml.example diaspora.yaml mv database.yaml.example database.yaml nano diaspora.yaml edit the url and remove the # in front of certificate_authorities: '/etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt' and port: 3000 nano database.yaml