Google App Engine Static Frontend Instance Does Not Start

Question

My static front-end instance (B1 instance_class) does not start when I make a URL request to it. Any idea? I had not touched my Google App Engine project for the past 4 weeks and suddenly it doesn't work any more.

When I try to access the url, I get 404 Not Found problem. No instance of the static front-end module starts.

If my dispatch.yaml is as follows, if I make the following call : www.jitai-api.appspot.com/jawbone_work, it should be routed to the static-frontend module, right? This doesn't seem to happen.

application: jitai-api

dispatch:
- url: "jitai-api.appspot.com/"
  module: default

- url: "jitai-api.appspot.com/jawbone_work*"
  module: static-frontend

- url: "jitai-api.appspot.com/google_work*"
  module: static-frontend

@JoshTriiJohnston, no instance of the static module ever starts when I make a request. I just get the 404 Not found error. — andyjslee
Have you logged into the cloud console console.developers.google.com/project for your project and checked the logs, settings, application versions, and running instances to see if there are any issues? You could also try to re-deploy your app using appcfg.py to see if that fixes it. — Josh J
how do you redeploy the static module using appcfg.py again? @JoshTriiJohnston — andyjslee

Josh J Josh J · Accepted Answer · 2015-08-12T15:16:53

Your dispatch rules match the hostname jitai-api.appspot.com, not www.jitai-api.appspot.com. Try defining them like this:

application: jitai-api

dispatch:
- url: "*/jawbone_work*"
  module: static-frontend

- url: "*/google_work*"
  module: static-frontend

- url: "*/"
  module: default

From the docs

# Matches the hostname 'customer1.myapp.com', but not '1.customer1.myapp.com. 
- url: "customer1.myapp.com/*"
  module: static-backend

Google App Engine Static Frontend Instance Does Not Start

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