This git repository allows to have couchdb on Red Hat OpenShift.

The .openshift directory contains the necessary build action_hook to download couchdb source code and all it's dependencies and build from scratch.

Create an account at http://openshift.redhat.com/

Create a Openshift DIY application (using any application name you want):

rhc create-app <app_name> diy

Add this upstream repository:

cd appname
git remote add couchdb-for-openshift -m master git://github.com/marianoguerra/couchdb-for-openshift.git
git pull -s recursive -X theirs couchdb-for-openshift master --allow-unrelated-histories

Then push the repo upstream:

git push

Now go play an come back around one hour later and you will have a running couchdb instance.

The next step is to make it secure, go to

http://appname-$yournamespace.rhcloud.com/_utils

and click "Fix this" on the bottom right corner and setup an admin user.

After this if you don't want the data to be world readabable go to "Configuration" on the right panel and change "require_valid_user" to true.

try accessing futon with an unauthenticated session and it should ask you for credentials before showing you anything.

it fetches and builds:

• ICU (international components for unicode)
• spidermonkey (JS engine)
• erlang
• couchdb

and then makes some configuration changes to couchdb.

marianoguerra

Don't know if it's needed but in case you need it, everything here is MIT.