Question

I want to create an Admin-only page for my GAE application. But I found there’s no way to set a Admin user, so I cannot log on the page I created and test the function. I tried the local Admin console, but no luck. How can I do this?

Answer 1

Google App Engine provides a pretty straightforward way to create a private admin section of your web application.

1.
In your app.yaml, any URL handler can have a login setting to restrict visitors to only those users who have signed in, or just those users who are administrators for the application.
If the setting is login: admin, once the user has signed in, the handler checks whether the user is an administrator for the application. If not, the user is given an error message; if the user is an administrator, the handler proceeds.
Here a snippet of app.yaml where the /admin/.* routes are admin restricted :

 - url: /admin/.*
   script: admin.py
   login: admin

2.
Trying to access the admin url, the dev app server automatically shows the login panel where you should check the Sign in as Administrator checkbox.