Question

I’m relatively new to GAE, and I’m having some difficulty understanding the URL mappings.

I have a set of data that is static (HTML templates, login forms, js etc), and a section that’s dynamic.

My current app.yaml has as follows:

handlers:
- url: /.*
  static_dir: /static
- url: /service/.*
  script: _go_app
  login: required

The idea here is that http://myapp/service/foo would route to the app, and that anything else like http://myapp/foo.html should serve /static/foo.html. However, I’m getting a 404 error on the static request.

Ideas?

Answer 1

According to the documentation,

url: A URL prefix. This value uses regular expression syntax (and so regexp special characters must be escaped), but it should not contain groupings. All URLs that begin with this prefix are handled by this handler, using the portion of the URL after the prefix as part of the file path.

In your case since you are specifying url: /.*, the prefix will be foo.html, and the file to fetch would have an empty filename.

Additionally, the handlers are evaluated from top to bottom so you need to change the order.

handlers:
- url: /service/.*
  script: _go_app
  login: required
- url: /
  static_dir: static