Uploading a static project to google app engines

Question

Disclaimer: I already asked here, but apparently off-topic.

I want to set up a page using this bootstrap template and host it as a static website using the google appengine service.

Inside the google_appengine directory, I created a folder page with the page data and the app.yaml:

• google_appengine [folder]
  • ...
  • dev_appserver.py
  • appcfg.py
  • ...
  • page [folder]
    • app.yaml
    • public [folder]

app.yaml has this as a content:

      application: coolmoon
  version: 1
  runtime: python27
  api_version: 1
  threadsafe: yes

  handlers:

  - url: /(.+)
    static_files: public/\1
    upload: public/(.*)

  - url: /
    static_files: public/index.html
    upload: public/index.html

  skip_files:
  - ^(.*/)?app\.yaml
  - ^(.*/)?app\.yml
  - ^(.*/)?#.*#
  - ^(.*/)?.*~
  - ^(.*/)?.*\.py[co]
  - ^(.*/)?.*/RCS/.*
  - ^(.*/)?\..*
  - ^(.*/)?tests$
  - ^(.*/)?test$
  - ^test/(.*/)?
  - ^COPYING.LESSER
  - ^README\..*
  - \.gitignore
  - ^\.git/.*
  - \.*\.lint$
  - ^fabfile\.py
  - ^testrunner\.py
  - ^grunt\.js
  - ^node_modules/(.*/)?

When I'm inside the google_appengine folder and I run

python dev_appserver.py page

I get the error message

 Traceback (most recent call last):   File "dev_appserver.py", line 82,
 in <module>
     _run_file(__file__, globals())   File "dev_appserver.py", line 78, in _run_file
     execfile(_PATHS.script_file(script_name), globals_)   File "/home/bogus/webpage/google_appengine/google/appengine/tools/devappserver2/devappserver2.py",
 line 943, in <module>
     main()   File "/home/bogus/webpage/google_appengine/google/appengine/tools/devappserver2/devappserver2.py",
 line 936, in main
     dev_server.start(options)   File "/home/bogus/webpage/google_appengine/google/appengine/tools/devappserver2/devappserver2.py",
 line 695, in start
     options.config_paths)   File "/home/bogus/webpage/google_appengine/google/appengine/tools/devappserver2/application_configuration.py",
 line 617, in __init__
     config_paths = self._config_files_from_paths(config_paths)   File "/home/bogus/webpage/google_appengine/google/appengine/tools/devappserver2/application_configuration.py",
 line 682, in _config_files_from_paths
     self._config_files_from_dir(path) if os.path.isdir(path) else [path])   File
 "/home/bogus/webpage/google_appengine/google/appengine/tools/devappserver2/application_configuration.py",
 line 710, in _config_files_from_dir
     (dir_path, or_web_inf)) google.appengine.tools.devappserver2.errors.AppConfigNotFoundError:
 "page/" is a directory but does not contain app.yaml or app.yml

but app.yaml is definitely inside the folder page

What is going wrong?

Is my command correct?

Answer 1

Why not use Amazon S3 or a similar service? It is more geared towards this sort of thing.