Squeez-0.1 on OpenShift

Squeez is a simple application written on web.py framework which helps in squeezing/shortening long URLs. It also has features such as copying to clipboard and sending the squeezd urls via email.

Running on OpenShift

Create an account at http://openshift.redhat.com/

Create a Python application

   rhc app create -a squeez -t python-2.6

Create a MySQL database which will be used by Squeez

   rhc app cartridge add -a squeez -c mysql-5.1

Add this upstream Squeez quickstart repo

cd squeez
git remote add upstream -m master git://github.com/stylesen/squeez-quickstart.git
git pull -s recursive -X theirs upstream master

Then push the repo upstream to OpenShift

 git push

That's it! Squeez is up and running! Visit the site here:

 http://squeez-$yourlogin.rhcloud.com

Email Configuration

In order to send emails from Squeez application, edit deploy script which has code holding all email related config parameters:

cd squeez
vi .openshift/action_hooks/deploy
git add .
git commit -a -m 'Email configuration done.'
git push