Running Google App Engine PHP on Windows

Question

I keep getting Syntax Error: unexpected character after line continuation character when I try to start the localhost server with the following command:

google_appengine\dev_appserver.py --php_executable_path="C:\Computer Science\PHP\php\php-cgi.exe" "C:\Computer Science\PHP\helloworld"

What's wrong?

My app.yaml:

application: helloworld
version: 1
runtime: php
api_version: 1

handlers:
- url: /.*
  script: helloworld.php

My helloworld.py

<?php
    echo 'Hello, World!';
?>

My directories

    /PHP
       /php
          /php-cgi.exe
       /helloworld
       /google_appengine

Edit: I have ran my app using the google app engine launcher, with php sdk and an extra command line flag in the launch settings: --php_executable_path=C:\Computer Science\PHP\php\php-cgi.exe. The server crashed.

Can you provide a stack trace of the error you see when you run google_appengine\dev_appserver.py --php_executable_path="C:\Computer Science\PHP\php\php-cgi.exe" "C:\Computer Science\PHP\helloworld" from the command line? — Andrew J

Bethel Goka Bethel Goka · Accepted Answer · 2013-10-05T09:54:07

user2481064 use the windows CMD, make sure you're in the same path as your google app engine sdk, i basically put my GAE SDK and application in the same path. Here it is:

Open your windows cmd, make sure you're in the same directory as your sdk.
Type: "google_appengine/dev_appserver.py" --port=9999 --php_executable_path="fullpath\php-cgi.exe" "helloworld/"
If you have another local server like xampp or wamp,make sure you use the --port command to select another listening port as shown above. 4.Press enter and you should have your helloworld script working.

Good luck :)

Running Google App Engine PHP on Windows

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