Been using Red Hat OpenShift for 6-months now, but have been annoyed with their lack of DNS. A or CNAMEs simply aren't the same.
So today I thought to try with Heroku. Here's a step-by-step setup guide: 1. Follow these steps: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/quickstart 2. Grab the version of web2py you want to use (I used trunk off of github), cd into this directory 3. echo web: python anyserver.py -s gunicorn -i 0.0.0.0 -p $PORT > Procfile 4. In this directory create a 'requirements.txt' file for pip, with these contents: web2py gunicorn psycopg2 # PostgreSQL 5. Modify the db.py for your app(s) to: if not request.env.web2py_runtime_gae: ## if NOT running on Google App Engine use SQLite or other DB db = DAL('sqlite://storage.sqlite',pool_size=1,check_reserved=['all']) try: db = DAL(os.environ.get('DATABASE_URL')) except: db = DAL('sqlite://storage.sqlite') 6. git init && git add . && git commit -am "init" 7. heroku create Take not of your URL here 8. git push heroku master For further information see: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/python https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/procfile http://blog.doersguild.com/post/35049380409/running-web2py-on-heroku # Where I got most of this from :P My thoughts thus far: - Good to see a newer version of python (2.7.2 vs OpenShifts': 2.6) - Has a default AES256 bit protected DigiCert verified which is nice to see; and stops me from doing any hacky workarounds to get admin working on HTTP (like required with OpenShift) - Don't need to enter my password everytime I push my changes (not sure if I like this!) - It uses an old version of pip (1.1) Problems: Unable to get a database connection. The doersguild blog guide which I followed (see link above) didn't work, because 'DATABASE_URL' isn't in my environ. My environ contains: {'LANG': 'en_US.UTF-8', 'LIBRARY_PATH': '/app/.heroku/vendor/lib', 'SHLVL': '1', 'PYTHONPATH': '/app/', 'SERVER_SOFTWARE': 'gunicorn/0.17.0', 'PYTHONHOME': '/app/.heroku/venv/', 'PORT': '[not saying publicly]', 'PWD': '/app', 'PYTHONHASHSEED': '[not saying publicly]', 'HOME': '/app', 'PATH': '/app/.heroku/venv/bin:/app/.heroku/venv/bin:/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin', 'PYTHONUNBUFFERED': 'true', 'PS1': '\\[\\033[01;34m\\]\\w\\[\\033[00m\\] \\[\\033[01;32m\\]$ \\[\\033[00m\\]', 'LD_LIBRARY_PATH': '/app/.heroku/vendor/lib', '_': '/app/.heroku/venv/bin/python'} Hope you enjoy my guide and can help me edit it to make it work properly; i.e.: with DB connection. All the best, Alec Taylor --
