Question

I am trying to use Google App Engine’s app.yaml to automatically serve *.html files when it is requested. So I have the following in my file structure:

-myapp
    -html (folder)
        -index.html
    -index.py

In my app.yaml I have:

handlers:
-url: /*\.html
static_dir: html

-url: /.*
script: index.app

However, when I run this on my browser localhost:8080/index.html, I get a 404 Not Found.
Why is it not routing to my index.html file?

Answer 1

There is several ways you can do this type of thing depending on what you want exactly. You can use a regex such as @hyperslug added if all you want is static content without any of the more advanced features.

You can set urls like so:

- url: /
  static_files: static/html/index.html
  upload: static/html/index.html
  secure: never

which allows you to set page security on a individual file basis if that is what you want. Or you can combine regex with security such as:

- url: /(.*\.(gif|png|jpg))
  static_files: \1
  upload: (.*\.(gif|png|jpg))
  secure: always

Remember that if your sharing the pages with public search engines treat http/https as 2 different links. As well as with and without trailing /.