http://djangohow-k4ml.rhcloud.com/
This git repository helps you get up and running quickly w/ a Django installation on OpenShift. The Django project name used in this repo is 'openshift' but you can feel free to change it. Right now the backend is sqlite3 and the database runtime is @ $OPENSHIFT_DATA_DIR/sqlite3.db.
When you push this application up for the first time, the sqlite database is copied from wsgi/openshift/sqlite3.db. This is the stock database that is created when 'python manage.py syncdb' is run with only the admin app installed.
You can delete the database from your git repo after the first push (you probably should for security). On subsequent pushes, a 'python manage.py syncdb' is executed to make sure that any models you added are created in the DB. If you do anything that requires an alter table, you could add the alter statements in GIT_ROOT/.openshift/action_hooks/alter.sql and then use GIT_ROOT/.openshift/action_hooks/deploy to execute that script (make sure to back up your database w/ 'rhc app snapshot save' first :) )
Create an account at http://openshift.redhat.com/ and install the command line tools client.
Create a python-2.6 application
rhc app create -a djangohow -t python-2.6
Add this upstream repo
cd djangohow
git remote add upstream -m master https://github.com/howframework/Django.git
git pull -s recursive -X theirs upstream master
Then push the repo upstream
git push
That's it, you can now checkout your application at (default admin account is admin/admin):
http://djangohow-$yournamespace.rhcloud.com
Make sure to have virtualenv installed first. The easiest way is to install using linux package manager such as apt-get or yum.
sudo apt-get install virtualenv
cd djangohow
virtualenv --no-site-packages .
./bin/python setup.py install
./bin/python manage.py syncdb
./bin/python manage.py runserver
You can then access the application now running at http://localhost:8000/.