There is only 6 easy steps to deploy your application to cloud.

Step 1 : Sign Up

Just visit to openshift and sign up a new account.

Step 2 : Install client tool

For installation instruction of client visit here

Step 3 : Create domain

$ rhc domain create -n <mydomain> -l <openshift login>

1	$ rhc domain create -n <mydomain> -l <openshift login>

Domain is the unique namespace for every account. Execute following command to create your domain

$ rhc domain create -n mydomain -l test@abc.com

1	$ rhc domain create -n mydomain -l test@abc.com

Step 4 : Create application

$ rhc app create -a -t

1	$ rhc app create -a -t

app name is the name of your application ant app type is the type of application you want to create. For a php application we execute following command:

$rhc app create -a mycake -t php-5.3

1	$rhc app create -a mycake -t php-5.3

Step 5 : Add MySQL to your application

$rhc app cartridge -a mycake -c mysql-5.1

1	$rhc app cartridge -a mycake -c mysql-5.1

Step 6 : Deploy your application to cloud
Once the application is created, it needs to deployed to cloud. After execution of step 4, a folder with the application name is created in current directory. Goto current directory and add cakephp to it.

$ cd mycake $ git remote add upstream -m master git://github.com/openshift/cakephp-example.git $ git pull -s recursive -X theirs upstream master $ git push

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$ cd mycake   $ git remote add upstream -m master git://github.com/openshift/cakephp-example.git   $ git pull -s recursive -X theirs upstream master   $ git push

You can access your application from the URL :

http://mycake-mydomain.rhcloud.com