Installing Drupal on OpenShift PaaS Video Guide

Installing Drupal on OpenShift PaaS Video Guide shows the easy steps to install ready made Drupal on Free OpenShift PaaS. We have also shown the basics of CLI. Although this is a video guide, we are providing the minimally needed knowledge to carry on the usage of Drupal. Please keep in mind, I am not used with Drupal like WordPress, I mean I know the basics about Drupal but not a core developer like for WordPress Software.

Installing Drupal on OpenShift PaaS Video Guide : Introduction and Links to other needed Guides

Installing Drupal on OpenShift PaaS is itself easy but if you are a fully new user of any PaaS or Git, you must understand the basics how these works. We ultimately will need the Command Line Tool like we have described in this article with further hyperlinks towards important articles on OpenShift. In this guide we have shown how to install Drupal as Instant App from the Web GUI / Control Panel.

We have shown the basic method how to clone the repo in this Installing Drupal on OpenShift PaaS Video Guide. But it is out of scope to go in to more detail, which you will find in some other way in our other guides.

Installing Drupal on OpenShift PaaS Video Guide : Steps

First login or create an account on OpenShift PaaS :

Under My Applications menu :

You will find the Add Application button. In the next web page you will find lot of applications and platforms. Under Instant App you will find Drupal :

Actually clicking it and giving the instance a name is enough to install Drupal, MySQL and PHPMyAdmin. We have shown a bit more though in the Video Guide. We have also shown how to delete the Application, in fact we started with deleting the third application to install Drupal !