I'm following the 'Getting Started with Python App Engine' tutorial and I can't seem to connect to the development server. I keep getting the following error from the log console when I try running it.
2013-08-23 09:46:43 PM Running command: "[u'/usr/bin/python', '/home/mathee/google_appengine/dev_appserver.py', '--admin_console_server=', '--port=8080', '/home/mathee/app']"
usage: dev_appserver.py [-h] [--host HOST] [--port PORT]
[--admin_host ADMIN_HOST] [--admin_port ADMIN_PORT]
[--auth_domain AUTH_DOMAIN] [--storage_path PATH]
[--log_level {debug,info,warning,critical,error}]
[--max_module_instances MAX_MODULE_INSTANCES]
[--use_mtime_file_watcher [USE_MTIME_FILE_WATCHER]]
[--php_executable_path PATH]
[--php_remote_debugging [PHP_REMOTE_DEBUGGING]]
[--python_startup_script PYTHON_STARTUP_SCRIPT]
[--python_startup_args PYTHON_STARTUP_ARGS]
[--blobstore_path BLOBSTORE_PATH]
[--mysql_host MYSQL_HOST] [--mysql_port MYSQL_PORT]
[--mysql_user MYSQL_USER]
[--mysql_password MYSQL_PASSWORD]
[--mysql_socket MYSQL_SOCKET]
[--datastore_path DATASTORE_PATH]
[--clear_datastore [CLEAR_DATASTORE]]
[--datastore_consistency_policy {consistent,random,time}]
[--require_indexes [REQUIRE_INDEXES]]
[--auto_id_policy {sequential,scattered}]
[--logs_path LOGS_PATH]
[--show_mail_body [SHOW_MAIL_BODY]]
[--enable_sendmail [ENABLE_SENDMAIL]]
[--smtp_host SMTP_HOST] [--smtp_port SMTP_PORT]
[--smtp_user SMTP_USER]
[--smtp_password SMTP_PASSWORD]
[--prospective_search_path PROSPECTIVE_SEARCH_PATH]
[--clear_prospective_search [CLEAR_PROSPECTIVE_SEARCH]]
[--search_indexes_path SEARCH_INDEXES_PATH]
[--clear_search_indexes [CLEAR_SEARCH_INDEXES]]
[--enable_task_running [ENABLE_TASK_RUNNING]]
[--allow_skipped_files [ALLOW_SKIPPED_FILES]]
[--api_port API_PORT]
[--automatic_restart [AUTOMATIC_RESTART]]
[--dev_appserver_log_level {debug,info,warning,critical,error}]
[--skip_sdk_update_check [SKIP_SDK_UPDATE_CHECK]]
[--default_gcs_bucket_name DEFAULT_GCS_BUCKET_NAME]
yaml_files [yaml_files ...]
dev_appserver.py: error: unrecognized arguments: --admin_console_server= 2013-08-23 09:46:44 PM (Process exited with code 2)
I am on Ubuntu 12.04 running Python 2.7.3. I have tried downloading and running with Python 2.7.5 however I kept getting a similar error to the one above, except with an ImportError saying that there was no module named zlib.
With this issue, I ran python 2.7.3 from terminal and tried importing zlib to which it worked, but when I tried the same with python 2.7.5 it failed being unable to find the zlib module.
I've been stuck on this issue for hours and could not find anything that could help me out.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!
Edit: Okay, I ran the development web server through the terminal instead of the Google App Engine Launcher and it worked perfectly.
I guess it's just a bug in the launcher.