Openshift Experimentation

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After seven tries at getting the foss@rit site migrated to openshift, I must concede... for tonight.

Vanilla openshift quickstarter for drupal

First attempt was editing by hand, and I installed modules and themes after bumbling around in the new (to me) drupal 7 interface.

installed the backup and migrate module, and tried to restore from a mysqldump from this site... and hosed it

destroy the app, start fresh

bumble around til I figured out how to enable phpmyadmin

import the sql backup manually... and hose the site

destroy the app, start fresh

enable phpmyadmin again, and try to just create a new empty database... and hose the site, again

rinse and repeat each of these approaches at least 2 times just incase...

I'm probably bringing this on myself, but all of the documentation is (seems to be) tailored to folks *not* using the openshift quickstarter. I guess I can try to use the web console command line next time, but even still... I have (had) a successful openshift tweetstream app running, but now that seems to be down too... #doingitwrong * 7 :(

All that said, It is *really* awesome and extremely satisfying to be able to spin up a fresh drupal and get cranking within 180 seconds. I got to look at some of the new html5 and 960gs themes, and will figure out how to actually tweak them tomorrow, where I'll be hopping into #openshift and getting to the bottom of this...