This git repository helps you get up and running quickly w/ a Flask installation on OpenShift. It also installs some flask extensions to speed up davelopment.
Pre-installed Extensions:
- Flask-MongoAlchemy>=0.6.1
- flask-script
- flask-bootstrap
- flask-moment
- flask-wtf
- flask-sqlalchemy
- flask-migrate
- flask-mail
- flask-login
- forgerypy
- flask-pagedown
- markdown
- bleach
- flask-httpauth
Create an account at https://www.openshift.com
Create a python application
rhc app create flask python-2.6
Add this upstream flask repo
cd flask
git remote add upstream -m master https://github.com/openshift/flask-example.git
git pull -s recursive -X theirs upstream master
Then push the repo upstream
git push
That's it, you can now checkout your application at:
http://flask-$yournamespace.rhcloud.com
To get more log messages in your OpenShift logs please add the following line to your code
app.config['PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS'] = True
To read more about logging in Flask please see this email
http://librelist.com/browser//flask/2012/1/27/catching-exceptions-from-flask/