• Create a free account at openshift.com
• Install the OpenShift Client Tools (which is a Ruby Gem):

Step 1: Install Ruby
Step 2: Install RubyGems
Step 3: Install Git
Step 4: Install the client tools

(ruby-full installs the gem binary automatically)

sudo apt-get install ruby-full git-core
sudo gem install rhc

rhc setup

Step 1: Login to openshift.redhat.com
Step 2: Generate a Public/Private key pair
Step 3: Create your namespace (aka domain)

For ease of deployment use the pre-built dokuwiki-quickstart repository

• This respository includes most of the deploy scripts that you will need to deploy Dokuwiki into OpenShift so you might as well use it.

https://github.com/openshift/dokuwiki-quickstart

Step 1: Create an empty application
Step 2: Download dokuwiki
Step 3: Push to OpenShift Online

rhc app create dokuwiki php-5.4
cd dokuwiki
git remote add upstream -m master git://github.com/openshift/dokuwiki-quickstart.git
git pull -s recursive -X theirs upstream master

Note: The git pull command above can be used later to pull updates to Dokuwiki ===== Customize DokuWiki ===== To customize Dokuwiki you must modify the git repository and the deploy scripts. This way your application customization will remain persistent accross each deployment. Step 1: Install and configure Google Authentication
Step 2: Modify the Dokuwiki config files
Step 3: Update the deploy hook script
<code> cd ~/dokuwiki/.openshift mkdir plugins cd plugins wget https://github.com/kettari/authgoogle/archive/master.tar.gz tar xf master.tar.gz rm master.tar.gz mv authgoogle-master authgoogle cd ~/dokuwiki/.openshift/conf vi local.php </code> ===== Misc Notes ===== You can obtain Secure Shell access to your application (Gear) by running the following command: <code>rhc ssh dokuwiki</code> The persistent date storage location for your application can be accessed in your deploy scripts by using the following environment variable: <code>$OPENSHIFT_DATA_DIRs</code> * OpenShift Origin is the upstream Open Source project for OpenShift. * This means you can download it and host your own OpenShift cloud! http://www.openshift.org/ So Cloud Hosting could be the same thing as shared hosting… But Cloud hosting