Diaspora* for OpenShift

Diaspora is a privacy-aware, personally-controlled, do-it-all open source social network. Check out our project site and the main repository.

OpenShift is a hosting platform by RedHat.

This repository contains modifications to Diaspora for easy deployment.

Installtion

• Create an account on OpenShift
• Create a Ruby on Rails app.
• Change the source code to git://github.com/MrZYX/diaspora-openshift.git while doing that
• Go to the "Application Overview" page.
• Grab a coffee.
• Wait until the apps status says "Started". This takes quite some time.

Configuration

todo

Updating

First time setup

You can also use this to get hold of a local copy so that you can modify your Diaspora.

• If you have none yet generate a SSH keypar: ssh-keygen.
• Grab ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub and add it at the My account page under "Public Keys".
• Install Git on your computer.
• Goto your applications and there to your Diaspora application.
• Copy the "Git repository" URL
• Run git clone your_git_repository_url
• Go into it: cd diaspora.
• Run git remote add upstream git://github.com/MrZYX/diaspora-openshift.git

Every time you need to update

• Go into your local clone.
• Run git pull upstream master.
• Run git push origin master.
• It's time for another coffee.

Issues

• There's a new secret token generated on every redeploy, so all users will get logged out on that.
• There's no straight forward way to configure your pod.
• There's no straight forward way to add yourself as an admin.