Showing posts with label AppEngine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label AppEngine. Show all posts

Saturday, April 11, 2009

Google AppEngine (GAE) is case sensitive and my XP is not

I was just about to post the following "complaint"/request for help to the google appengine newsgroup:

Hi,
I created a GAE application using python.
well - that might be an overstatement, as this app is just a plain static html/js/css website.

It took a while to get it running on my dev environment but finally it does work.

I executed the update script and it seems to run o.k.

D:\DVLP\Dozi>"C:\program Files\Google\google_appengine/appcfg.py" update d:\dvlp\dozi
Scanning files on local disk.
Initiating update.
Cloning 111 static files.
Cloned 100 files.
Cloning 12 application files.
Uploading 2 files.
Deploying new version.
Checking if new version is ready to serve.
Will check again in 1 seconds.
Checking if new version is ready to serve.
Closing update: new version is ready to start serving.
Uploading index definitions.

and I even see it on my console as uploaded.

BUT - when i try to go to any of

http://dozi-arch.appspot.com
https://dozi-arch.appspot.com
http://ppp.doritz.com
http://2.latest.dozi-arch.appspot.com

which to my understanding should all lead to a working version of this site I only get a page saying
"Oops! This link appears broken." (404)

if i try accessing an image on this site:
e.g.
http://dozi-arch.appspot.com/img/leaves.jpg
it is properly served.


my app.yaml looks like this:


No, you are not missing the end.
it was at that point that I said to myself - well, if it servers the image - why wont it serve the .htm ??

the app.yaml looks like this:


application: dozi-arch
version: 2
runtime: python
api_version: 1

default_expiration: "1m"

skip_files:
- ^(.*/)?app\.yaml
- ^(.*/)?app\.yml
- ^(.*/)?index\.yaml
- ^(.*/)?index\.yml
- ^(.*/)?#.*#
- ^(.*/)?.*~
- ^(.*/)?.*\.py[co]
- ^(.*/)?.*/RCS/.*
- ^(.*/)?\..*
- ^(.*/)?.*\.bak$
- ^(.*/)?.*\.sln$
- ^(.*/)?.*\.suo$
- ^(.*/)?.*\.txt$
- ^(.*/)?.*\.bat$
- ^(.*/)?Thumbs.db$


handlers:
- url: /
static_files: static/default.htm
upload: static/default.htm

# All URLs beginning with /img are treated as paths to static files in
# the img/ directory. Note that static_dir handlers do not use a
# regular expression for the URL pattern, only a prefix.

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



so why won't it serve default.htm when I go to the root of my site ?

well as it turns out - it because the file is locally stored as Default.htm not default.htm - when running on my pc the filesystem does not care for case and serves it even when asked for default.htm.

changed app.yaml to say:

- url: /
static_files: static/Default.htm
upload: static/Default.htm


and ....
Shazam...!!!!!

b.t.w -
does anyone know how can i server a url such as
http://example.com/שם_בעברית.htm
as a file from GAE ?! (for the non-hebrew-speakers among you - the file name just say "a name in hebrew".

well - maybe when i have another free night to bang my head against the GAE.

 
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