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I created an App Engine application. Till now, I only have a few HTML files to serve. What can I do to make App Engine serve the index.html file whenever someone visits http://example.appengine.com/ ?
Currently, my app.yaml file looks like this:
application: appname
version: 1
runtime: python
api_version: 1
handlers:
- url: /
static_dir: static_files
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Static files are files that clients download as they are from the server. Create a new directory, public. Express, by default does not allow you to serve static files. You need to enable it using the following built-in middleware.
ASP.NET Core application cannot serve static files by default. We must include Microsoft. AspNetCore.
It is usually the most optimized solution to reduce the amount of requests on your node. js server that is slower to server static files than nginx for example : An even better option is to use a reverse proxy to serve static files; see Use a reverse proxy for more information.
This should do what you need:
https://gist.github.com/873098
Explanation: In App Engine Python it's possible to use regular expressions as URL handlers in app.yaml and redirect all URLs to a hierarchy of static files.
Example app.yaml:
application: your-app-name-here
version: 1
runtime: python
api_version: 1
handlers:
- url: /(.*\.css)
mime_type: text/css
static_files: static/\1
upload: static/(.*\.css)
- url: /(.*\.html)
mime_type: text/html
static_files: static/\1
upload: static/(.*\.html)
- url: /(.*\.js)
mime_type: text/javascript
static_files: static/\1
upload: static/(.*\.js)
- url: /(.*\.txt)
mime_type: text/plain
static_files: static/\1
upload: static/(.*\.txt)
- url: /(.*\.xml)
mime_type: application/xml
static_files: static/\1
upload: static/(.*\.xml)
# image files
- url: /(.*\.(bmp|gif|ico|jpeg|jpg|png))
static_files: static/\1
upload: static/(.*\.(bmp|gif|ico|jpeg|jpg|png))
# index files
- url: /(.+)/
static_files: static/\1/index.html
upload: static/(.+)/index.html
# redirect to 'url + /index.html' url.
- url: /(.+)
static_files: static/redirector.html
upload: static/redirector.html
# site root
- url: /
static_files: static/index.html
upload: static/index.html
In order to handle requests to URLs that don't end with a recognized type (.html, .png, etc.) or / you need to redirect those requests to URL + / so the index.html for that directory is served. I don't know of a way to do this inside the app.yaml, so I added a javascript redirector. This could also be done with a tiny python handler.
redirector.html:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<script language="JavaScript">
self.location=self.location + "/";
</script>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
If you're trying to map / to index.html:
handlers:
- url: /
upload: folderpath/index.html
static_files: folderpath/index.html
the url: will match on a path and supports regex.
- url: /images
static_dir: static_files/images
So if your image file is stored at static_files/images/picture.jpg use this:
<img src="/images/picture.jpg" />
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