Laravel is a free, open source PHP web application framework, designed for the development of model–view–controller (MVC) web applications.

This QuickStart was created to make it easy to get started with Laravel 5.0 on OpenShift.

The simplest way to install this application is to use the OpenShift QuickStart. If you'd like to install it manually, follow these directions.

These are some special considerations you may need to keep in mind when running your application on OpenShift.

This Laravel QuickStart provides separate .env configuration files for both local and remote development, found at .env and .openshift/.env respectively. When the local repo is pushed to OpenShift .env is overwritten with the .openshift/.env file.

Your application is configured to automatically use your OpenShift MySQL or PostgreSQL database in when deployed on OpenShift using OpenShift Environment Variables.

Additionally, your APP_ENV, APP_URL, and APP_KEY will be set automatically in production on OpenShift.

The Laravel CACHE_DRIVER is set to use APC opcode caching and the SESSION_DRIVER is set to use the local file system for storage. Feel free to update these settings in .openshift/.env.

When the application is pushed to OpenShift, php artisan migrate --force is automatically executed.

When the application is pushed, composer install is automatically executed over the root directory. See PHP Markers for more details on the 'use_composer' marker.

When you develop your Laravel application in OpenShift, you can also enable the 'development' environment by setting the APPLICATION_ENV environment variable, using the rhc client, like:

$ rhc env set APPLICATION_ENV=development -a <app-name>

Then, restart your application:

$ rhc app restart -a <app-name>

If you do so, OpenShift will run your application under 'development' mode. In development mode, your application will:

• Set Laravel's APP_ENV to 'development' and APP_DEBUG to 'true'
• Ignore your composer.lock file
• Show more detailed errors in browser
• Display startup errors
• Enable the Xdebug PECL extension
• Enable APC stat check

Set the variable to 'production' and restart your app to deactivate error reporting and resume production PHP settings.

Using the development environment can help you debug problems in your application in the same way as you do when developing on your local machine. However, we strongly advise you not to run your application in this mode in production.

Your application is configured to use the OpenShift log directory. You can use the rhc tail command to stream the latest log file entries:

rhc tail -a <APP_NAME>

To stop tailing the logs, press Ctrl + c.

1. Create an account at https://www.openshift.com/

2. Create a Laravel application:

   rhc app create laravelapp https://raw.githubusercontent.com/luciddreamz/openshift-php/master/metadata/manifest.yml mysql-5.5 --from-code=https://github.com/luciddreamz/laravel
   

   or

   rhc app create laravelapp https://raw.githubusercontent.com/luciddreamz/openshift-php/master/metadata/manifest.yml postgresql-9.2 --from-code=https://github.com/luciddreamz/laravel
   

   Note: This QuickStart is setup to use a custom version of the OpenShift PHP 5.4 cartridge with the latest version of Composer installed. The version of Composer that ships with OpenShift's current PHP 5.4 cartridge is slightly out of date will error when it encounters Laravel's more recent version syntax (ex. Invalid version string "^1.0.1").

Documentation for the Laravel framework can be found on the Laravel website. Check out OpenShift's Developer Portal for help running PHP on OpenShift.