Hi Margaret :) You certainly could use an ssh tunnel. I just prefer to get it working in a natural anonymous web access way where I can access it from anywhere.
The issue at the time with wsgi was that web2py was appropriately using 'wsgi_url_scheme' per the wsgi spec to determine whether or not the connection was secure and the openshift environment wasn't setting / preserving that variable from the proxy web instance to the gear instance. I implemented a workaround in the dev branch on the template to use http_x_forwarded_proto instead but this should no longer be needed. If you're experiencing issues using the admin app, could you open an issue on the git project with details of what message you're getting along with any logs you can include by either scp'ing them from $OPENSHIFT_LOG_DIR or copying and pasting the output from the local command rhc app tail -a <yourapp> https://github.com/prelegalwonder/openshift_web2py/issues?state=open This way we've got a central place to track the the issues and it also helps me determine where I could provide better clarification in the readme where it's just documentation issues. I'll do my best to help you get up and going :) Cheers, Andrew --
