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Webpy + Google App Engine

This cookbook entry explains how to run web.py as a google app engine application

Requirements

  • Google App Engine Python API
  • web.py .38 or later

Resources

Notes

  • The mechanisms for running GAE in python2.7 and 2.5 are different, change the app.yaml accordingly
  • code.py is the main file of your application (2.5)
  • code.app is the object that cointains the return value of gaerun() (2.7)
  • appname is the name that you specified while creating your GAE application
  • runtime for 2.5 is python, 2.7 is python27
  • threadsafe is only required in 2.7, read about it on the google app engine site

app.yaml for python 2.5

application: appname
version: 1
runtime: python
api_version: 1

handlers:
- url: /.*
  script: code.py

app.yaml for python 2.7

application: appname
version: 1
runtime: python27
api_version: 1
threadsafe: true

handlers:
- url: /.*
  script: code.app

To serve static files, you must add this under handlers (where static is the name of your static dir): - url: /static static_dir: static

Hello World!

This is a sample application that can be run by using dev_appserver.py (it is bundled with the SDK download):

import web

urls = (
	"/.*", "hello",
)

app = web.application(urls, globals())

class hello:
	def GET(self):
		return 'Hello, world!'

app = app.gaerun()

Save this as code.py (or whatever you specified in app.yaml) and type: dev_appserver.py .

Now visit localhost:8080 in your browser and you should see hello world!

NOTES

There is a blank page or an internal server error

solution: Make sure that you are running the version of python specified in the app.yaml file

dev_appserver.py is not found

solution: Make sure that it is in your path