Google App Engine: run dev_appserver.py app.yaml but nothing happens

0
votes

I am following the official tutorial of google app engine "Getting Started with Flask on App Engine Standard Environment". The problem is that I cannot run the code successfully on local server. I typed:

dev_appserver.py app.yaml

in the command line and hit enter. Nothing happened and a new line was created. I was running the command in a virtual environment from the root directory where the app.yaml file is located. I have already added "[PATH_TO_CLOUD_SDK]/google-cloud-sdk/bin/dev_appserver.py]" to the PATH environment variable.

Does anyone know what is going on?

1
pythongoogle-app-engine
Shouldn't just [PATH_TO_CLOUD_SDK]/google-cloud-sdk/bin be added to the path? - Dan Cornilescu
To rule the path out just invoke dev_appserver.py with its full path. Take a look at this answer (replacing appcfg.py with dev_appserver.py, it applies to both), it might help. - Dan Cornilescu
Thanks Dan. But I cannot see the link of the answer that you suggested. Can you post it again? - Kai
Duh! Here it is: stackoverflow.com/questions/33131192/… - Dan Cornilescu
Thanks Dan. I am having a hard time understanding the second answer. Where does he change the settings of python interpreter? Please excuse me for asking here. I am not allowed to leave comments to other posts so I have to ask here. - Kai

1 Answers

0
votes

I encountered the same problem. The solution below works for me. On windows command prompt write the following commands:

1 - cd C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Cloud SDK\google-cloud-sdk\bin 
2 - python dev_appserver.py "C:\path\to\app.yaml"