GAE: App.yaml designed for serving a static site on Google App Engine (Python). Copy your static html and files into a folder called "static" next to app.yaml. Contains a bunch of mimetype declarations from html5boilerplate's .htaccess. May not be neces

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App.yaml designed for serving a static site on Google App Engine (Python). Copy your static html and files into a folder called "static" next to app.yaml. Contains a bunch of mimetype declarations from html5boilerplate's .htaccess. May not be necessary for most situations.

my_site
  app.yaml
  static
    index.html
    ...

The static folder is invisible when serving (i.e. my_site/static/index.html is accessed as http://your-app-name-here.appspot.com/index.html.

Remember: No spaces in file or path names. Case sensitive.

app.yaml

application: you-app-name-here
version: 1
runtime: python
api_version: 1

default_expiration: "30d"

handlers:
- url: /(.*\.(appcache|manifest))
  mime_type: text/cache-manifest
  static_files: static/\1
  upload: static/(.*\.(appcache|manifest))
  expiration: "0m"

- url: /(.*\.atom)
  mime_type: application/atom+xml
  static_files: static/\1
  upload: static/(.*\.atom)
  expiration: "1h"

- url: /(.*\.crx)
  mime_type: application/x-chrome-extension
  static_files: static/\1
  upload: static/(.*\.crx)

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

- url: /(.*\.eot)
  mime_type: application/vnd.ms-fontobject
  static_files: static/\1
  upload: static/(.*\.eot)

- url: /(.*\.htc)
  mime_type: text/x-component
  static_files: static/\1
  upload: static/(.*\.htc)

- url: /(.*\.html)
  mime_type: text/html
  static_files: static/\1
  upload: static/(.*\.html)
  expiration: "1h"

- url: /(.*\.ico)
  mime_type: image/x-icon
  static_files: static/\1
  upload: static/(.*\.ico)
  expiration: "7d"

- url: /(.*\.js)
  mime_type: text/javascript
  static_files: static/\1
  upload: static/(.*\.js)

- url: /(.*\.json)
  mime_type: application/json
  static_files: static/\1
  upload: static/(.*\.json)
  expiration: "1h"

- url: /(.*\.m4v)
  mime_type: video/m4v
  static_files: static/\1
  upload: static/(.*\.m4v)

- url: /(.*\.mp4)
  mime_type: video/mp4
  static_files: static/\1
  upload: static/(.*\.mp4)

- url: /(.*\.(ogg|oga))
  mime_type: audio/ogg
  static_files: static/\1
  upload: static/(.*\.(ogg|oga))

- url: /(.*\.ogv)
  mime_type: video/ogg
  static_files: static/\1
  upload: static/(.*\.ogv)

- url: /(.*\.otf)
  mime_type: font/opentype
  static_files: static/\1
  upload: static/(.*\.otf)

- url: /(.*\.rss)
  mime_type: application/rss+xml
  static_files: static/\1
  upload: static/(.*\.rss)
  expiration: "1h"

- url: /(.*\.safariextz)
  mime_type: application/octet-stream
  static_files: static/\1
  upload: static/(.*\.safariextz)

- url: /(.*\.(svg|svgz))
  mime_type: images/svg+xml
  static_files: static/\1
  upload: static/(.*\.(svg|svgz))

- url: /(.*\.swf)
  mime_type: application/x-shockwave-flash
  static_files: static/\1
  upload: static/(.*\.swf)

- url: /(.*\.ttf)
  mime_type: font/truetype
  static_files: static/\1
  upload: static/(.*\.ttf)

- url: /(.*\.txt)
  mime_type: text/plain
  static_files: static/\1
  upload: static/(.*\.txt)

- url: /(.*\.unity3d)
  mime_type: application/vnd.unity
  static_files: static/\1
  upload: static/(.*\.unity3d)

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

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

- url: /(.*\.woff)
  mime_type: application/x-font-woff
  static_files: static/\1
  upload: static/(.*\.woff)

- url: /(.*\.xml)
  mime_type: application/xml
  static_files: static/\1
  upload: static/(.*\.xml)
  expiration: "1h"

- url: /(.*\.xpi)
  mime_type: application/x-xpinstall
  static_files: static/\1
  upload: static/(.*\.xpi)

# image files
- url: /(.*\.(bmp|gif|ico|jpeg|jpg|png))
  static_files: static/\1
  upload: static/(.*\.(bmp|gif|ico|jpeg|jpg|png))

# audio files
- url: /(.*\.(mid|midi|mp3|wav))
  static_files: static/\1
  upload: static/(.*\.(mid|midi|mp3|wav))  

# windows files
- url: /(.*\.(doc|exe|ppt|rtf|xls))
  static_files: static/\1
  upload: static/(.*\.(doc|exe|ppt|rtf|xls))

# compressed files
- url: /(.*\.(bz2|gz|rar|tar|tgz|zip))
  static_files: static/\1
  upload: static/(.*\.(bz2|gz|rar|tar|tgz|zip))

# index files
- url: /(.+)/
  static_files: static/\1/index.html
  upload: static/(.+)/index.html
  expiration: "15m"

- url: /(.+)
  static_files: static/\1/index.html
  upload: static/(.+)/index.html
  expiration: "15m"

# site root
- url: /
  static_files: static/index.html
  upload: static/index.html
  expiration: "15m"

Very helpful ! .. but , images didnt work without mime types

instead of

• url: /(..(bmp|gif|ico|jpeg|jpg|png))
  
  static_files: static/\1
  
  upload: static/(..(bmp|gif|ico|jpeg|jpg|png))
  

i replaced with this .. It worked only after i added separate mime types like

• url: /(..png)
  
  mime_type: image/png
  
  static_files: static/\1
  
  upload: static/(..png)
  

can you let me know it didnt work regularly for me alone .. am using python 2.7

Why are certain file types handled on their own (.txt) with mime types and others are handled together ((bmp|gif|ico|jpeg|jpg|png))

Mime type for svg should be image/svg+xml instead of images/svg+xml

What I do for sending email with GAE?
Thanks.

Here are the official MIME types for Web Fonts:

.eot -> application/vnd.ms-fontobject (as from December 2005) (gzip disabled)
.otf -> application/font-sfnt (as from March 2013) (gzip disabled)
.svg -> image/svg+xml (as from August 2011) (gzip enabled)
.ttf -> application/font-sfnt (as from March 2013) (gzip disabled, but GAE support ttf-fonts gzip with mime type "font/ttf")
.woff -> application/font-woff (as from January 2013) (already gzip compressed)

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2871655/proper-mime-type-for-fonts#20723357

MIME types from MaxCDN (for example FontAwesome):
.eot -> application/vnd.ms-fontobject
.otf -> application/octet-stream
.svg -> image/svg+xml
.ttf -> font/ttf
.woff -> application/font-woff

/ sorry for my English /

The order of url specifications is crucial! Make sure any other url handler rule doesn't interfere with your static handler rule and comes before that.

Like this works

- url: /static
  static_dir : static
- url: .*
  script: main.py
  secure: always

but this doesn't

- url: .*
  script: main.py
  secure: always
- url: /static
  static_dir : static

Thank you very much... I can't tell you how awful their (Google App Engine) documentation is and this cleared things up.

In the config, the svg directive has an incorrect mime_type. Here is the current version:

- url: /(.*\.(svg|svgz))
  mime_type: images/svg+xml
  static_files: static/\1
  upload: static/(.*\.(svg|svgz))

Here is what it needs to be:

- url: /(.*\.(svg|svgz))
  mime_type: image/svg+xml
  static_files: static/\1
  upload: static/(.*\.(svg|svgz))

Was running into an issue where SVGs weren't loading in my pages! Otherwise, thank you for this gist, it's been very helpful for hosting static files on app engine.

Hi, I have created a webapp using java and there are three app.yaml files in my target folder, so which one do I have to edit?
pkjustpj@tempinitial:~/ImgUploadImg/webapp/target$ tree
.
+-- appengine-staging
¦ +-- app.yaml
¦ +-- index.jsp
¦ +-- static
¦ ¦ +-- static-resources
¦ ¦ ...
¦ +-- static-resources
¦ ¦ ...
¦ +-- WEB-INF
¦ +-- appengine-generated
¦ ¦ +-- app.yaml
¦ +-- appengine-web.xml
¦ +-- classes
¦ ¦ +-- jetty-config.xml
¦ ¦ +-- logback.xml
¦ ¦ +-- spring-config
¦ ¦ +-- spring-context.xml
¦ +-- layouts
¦ ¦ +-- layout.xml
¦ +-- lib
¦ ¦ ...
¦ +-- web.xml
+-- classes
¦ +-- jetty-config.xml
¦ +-- logback.xml
¦ +-- pl
¦ ¦ ...
¦ +-- property-files
¦ ¦ +-- config-info.properties
¦ +-- spring-config
¦ +-- spring-context.xml
+-- generated-sources
¦ +-- annotations
+-- maven-archiver
¦ +-- pom.properties
+-- webapp
¦ +-- app.yaml
¦ +-- index.jsp
¦ +-- META-INF
¦ +-- static-resources
¦ ¦ ...
¦ +-- WEB-INF
¦ ...
+-- webapp.war

Also, my main problem is 404 on all other files(like .css .png. .js .ico) which are present in the static-resources which is a sibling of WEB-INF folder. I have also put on a question on stack-overflow. Kindly help me out. Thanks

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/35356212/404-for-all-the-files-residing-in-static-resources?noredirect=1#comment58501122_35356212

I just deployed a website for testing on Google Appengine. Using google App Engine Launcher Its successfully done.

Now I tried to open the deployed website, please check here https://acuteservice-1260.appspot.com the internal pages are not opening.

Below is my APP YAML file its showing warning, I have all files are in php

application: acuteservice-1260
version: 1
runtime: python
api_version: 1

default_expiration: "30d"

handlers:

• url: /(..(appcache|manifest))
  mime_type: text/cache-manifest
  static_files: static/\1
  upload: static/(..(appcache|manifest))
  expiration: "0m"
• url: /(..atom)
  mime_type: application/atom+xml
  static_files: static/\1
  upload: static/(..atom)
  expiration: "1h"
• url: /(..crx)
  mime_type: application/x-chrome-extension
  static_files: static/\1
  upload: static/(..crx)
• url: /(..css)
  mime_type: text/css
  static_files: static/\1
  upload: static/(..css)
• url: /(..eot)
  mime_type: application/vnd.ms-fontobject
  static_files: static/\1
  upload: static/(..eot)
• url: /(..htc)
  mime_type: text/x-component
  static_files: static/\1
  upload: static/(..htc)
• url: /(..php)
  mime_type: text/html
  static_files: static/\1
  upload: static/(..php)
  expiration: "1h"
• url: /(..ico)
  mime_type: image/x-icon
  static_files: static/\1
  upload: static/(..ico)
  expiration: "7d"
• url: /(..js)
  mime_type: text/javascript
  static_files: static/\1
  upload: static/(..js)
• url: /(..json)
  mime_type: application/json
  static_files: static/\1
  upload: static/(..json)
  expiration: "1h"
• url: /(..m4v)
  mime_type: video/m4v
  static_files: static/\1
  upload: static/(..m4v)
• url: /(..mp4)
  mime_type: video/mp4
  static_files: static/\1
  upload: static/(..mp4)
• url: /(..(ogg|oga))
  mime_type: audio/ogg
  static_files: static/\1
  upload: static/(..(ogg|oga))
• url: /(..ogv)
  mime_type: video/ogg
  static_files: static/\1
  upload: static/(..ogv)
• url: /(..otf)
  mime_type: font/opentype
  static_files: static/\1
  upload: static/(..otf)
• url: /(..rss)
  mime_type: application/rss+xml
  static_files: static/\1
  upload: static/(..rss)
  expiration: "1h"
• url: /(..safariextz)
  mime_type: application/octet-stream
  static_files: static/\1
  upload: static/(..safariextz)
• url: /(..(svg|svgz))
  mime_type: images/svg+xml
  static_files: static/\1
  upload: static/(..(svg|svgz))
• url: /(..swf)
  mime_type: application/x-shockwave-flash
  static_files: static/\1
  upload: static/(..swf)
• url: /(..ttf)
  mime_type: font/truetype
  static_files: static/\1
  upload: static/(..ttf)
• url: /(..txt)
  mime_type: text/plain
  static_files: static/\1
  upload: static/(..txt)
• url: /(..unity3d)
  mime_type: application/vnd.unity
  static_files: static/\1
  upload: static/(..unity3d)
• url: /(..webm)
  mime_type: video/webm
  static_files: static/\1
  upload: static/(..webm)
• url: /(..webp)
  mime_type: image/webp
  static_files: static/\1
  upload: static/(..webp)
• url: /(..woff)
  mime_type: application/x-font-woff
  static_files: static/\1
  upload: static/(..woff)
• url: /(..xml)
  mime_type: application/xml
  static_files: static/\1
  upload: static/(..xml)
  expiration: "1h"
• url: /(..xpi)
  mime_type: application/x-xpinstall
  static_files: static/\1
  upload: static/(..xpi)

image files

• url: /(..(bmp|gif|ico|jpeg|jpg|png))
  static_files: static/\1
  upload: static/(..(bmp|gif|ico|jpeg|jpg|png))

audio files

• url: /(..(mid|midi|mp3|wav))
  static_files: static/\1
  upload: static/(..(mid|midi|mp3|wav))

windows files

• url: /(..(doc|exe|ppt|rtf|xls))
  static_files: static/\1
  upload: static/(..(doc|exe|ppt|rtf|xls))

compressed files

• url: /(..(bz2|gz|rar|tar|tgz|zip))
  static_files: static/\1
  upload: static/(..(bz2|gz|rar|tar|tgz|zip))

index files

• url: /(.+)/
  static_files: static/\1/index.php
  upload: static/(.+)/index.php
  expiration: "15m"
• url: /(.+)
  static_files: static/\1/index.php
  upload: static/(.+)/index.php
  expiration: "15m"

site root

• url: /
  static_files: static/index.php
  upload: static/index.php
  expiration: "15m"
• url: .*
  script: index.php

So why would you do all of that rather than simply:

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

?

@SoulAuctioneer I found that adding each mime type allowed by backend api hosted in the same space to function You're blanket .* block would prevent my api from working.
I actually found this document very very helpful in getting my static files as well as my backend Google api working at the same time.

Is this still valid? I'm creating a DjangoREST API as backend and Angular4 as frontend. I've put all my static files from 'dist' folder I've got in my Angular app to a folder named 'static' which is in my app folder, not in level with manage.py (because it doesn't work 100%).

This didn't work for me.

The sequence of my handlers seems to dictate a choice between the CSS/JS/Other working and the removal of .html from the URL. I can't have both, it seems.

understanding the syntax I found made the biggest difference. You can see the descriptions
here
I don't touch my .yaml file often so I posted this at the top for when I do:

#  Note to self, syntax can be found here:
#  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression#Syntax

#  () defines a value to be saved in memory, \1 calles that value in order. ie: \1 \2
#  + will join strings but the values must match on either side
#  . Matches any single character
#  \ will 'excape' a charrictor. So the \. makes the period mean a period

Simpler app.yaml

runtime: python37
service: static-website

handlers:
# index files
- url: /([^.]+)/?$  # urls with no dot in them
  static_files: public/\1/index.html
  upload: public/(.+)/index.html
  expiration: "15m"

# site root
- url: /
  static_files: public/index.html
  upload: public/index.html
  expiration: "15m"

# everything else
- url: /(.*)
  static_files: public/\1
  upload: public/(.*)

Simpler app.yaml
...

Works great for my Gatsby site.

Thanks, @cosmith!

@cosmith:

I'm no regex expert, but when I use your regex for "urls with no dot in them", it doesn't quite work for these:

/a/b/c

and

/a/b/c/

Here is the only solution that worked for me (escaped your final trailing slash, and made the group capture non-greedy).

• url: /([^.]+?)/?$ # urls with no dot in them

@jaunt you're right my url structure is only a single level deep

Hi, how would I reference a public file from the public/shared-json/blacklist.json in app.yaml?
The repo structure is:

• public:
  - shared-json:
  - black-list.json
• server :
  - app.yaml
  Below is how my app.yaml looks for handler section
  

Is there a way to change the path in the static_dir option?

Thanks for this. Was just what I needed 👌