Hello World from OSS Silicon Valley

_ Prerequisite

• Google App Engine SDK installation (You can refer [[HowToUse/Python/2.7/GoogleAppEngine/1.9/]])
• Virtualenv installation (You can refer [[HowToUse/Python/2.7/Virtualenv/15.0/]])

_ Install&Setup

Step.1

Prepare a directory for application root with virtualenv.

Step.2

Activate virtualenv.

$ cd <application root>
$ virtualenv .
$ source bin/activate

_ HowToUse

Step.1

Create gae.pth file.

$ vi $VIRTUAL_ENV/lib/python/2.7/site-packages/gae.pth

/opt/google_appengine
import dev_appserver; dev_appserver.fix_sys_path()
import sys; sys.path.insert(1, '<application root>')

Step.2

Check if gae.pth works as expected.

$ source bin/activate
$ python -c "import google"

Step.3

Install Django to application root.

$ pip install django -t <application root>

Step.4

Add the following line to gae.path

 import sys; sys.path.insert(1, '<application root>')

Then execute the following command to check if django is recognized successfully.

$ source bin/activate
$ python -c "import django; print django.get_version()"

Step.5

Create new project in application root.

$ django/bin/django-admin.py startproject <project>

Step.6

Create app.yaml and module, then launch the service.

_ Author

S.Yatsuzuka