Basic web app saying "hello, world."

Question

I am watching one tutorial to get a basic web app saying "hello, world" But for some reason I don't understand, I am getting this "The localhost page isn't working localhost is currently unable to handle this request."

This is what I did. 1. I installed Google App Engine SDK for python. 2. I created two files like this:

main.py

import webapp2

class MainPage(webapp2.RequestHandler):
    def get(self):
        self.response.headers['Content-Type'] = 'text/plain'
        self.response.write('Hello, World!')

app = webapp2.WSGIApplication([
    ('/', MainPage),
], debug=True)

app.yaml

runtime: python27
api_version: 1
threadsafe: true

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

I didnt write these. These were given in google app engine website.

and I tried two different methods to run it.

1. Using terminal in the folder where the two files are:

I used this command: dev_appserver.py . and this is what I get:

INFO     2016-04-02 04:28:02,071 sdk_update_checker.py:229] Checking for updates to the SDK.
INFO     2016-04-02 04:28:02,949 sdk_update_checker.py:257] The SDK is up to date.
INFO     2016-04-02 04:28:02,982 api_server.py:205] Starting API server at: http://localhost:50345
INFO     2016-04-02 04:28:02,988 dispatcher.py:197] Starting module "default" running at: http://localhost:8080
INFO     2016-04-02 04:28:02,989 admin_server.py:116] Starting admin server at: http://localhost:8000

and when I enter " http://localhost:8000 " on chrome, I get this error msg: "The localhost page isn't working localhost is currently unable to handle this request."

and this is the error msg I get on terminal

ERROR    2016-04-02 04:43:47,109 wsgi.py:263] 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Applications/GoogleAppEngineLauncher.app/Contents/Resources/GoogleAppEngine-default.bundle/Contents/Resources/google_appengine/google/appengine/runtime/wsgi.py", line 240, in Handle
    handler = _config_handle.add_wsgi_middleware(self._LoadHandler())
  File "/Applications/GoogleAppEngineLauncher.app/Contents/Resources/GoogleAppEngine-default.bundle/Contents/Resources/google_appengine/google/appengine/runtime/wsgi.py", line 299, in _LoadHandler
    handler, path, err = LoadObject(self._handler)
  File "/Applications/GoogleAppEngineLauncher.app/Contents/Resources/GoogleAppEngine-default.bundle/Contents/Resources/google_appengine/google/appengine/runtime/wsgi.py", line 85, in LoadObject
    obj = __import__(path[0])
ImportError: No module named helloworld
INFO     2016-04-02 04:43:47,114 module.py:787] default: "GET / HTTP/1.1" 500 -
ERROR    2016-04-02 04:43:47,602 wsgi.py:263] 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Applications/GoogleAppEngineLauncher.app/Contents/Resources/GoogleAppEngine-default.bundle/Contents/Resources/google_appengine/google/appengine/runtime/wsgi.py", line 240, in Handle
    handler = _config_handle.add_wsgi_middleware(self._LoadHandler())
  File "/Applications/GoogleAppEngineLauncher.app/Contents/Resources/GoogleAppEngine-default.bundle/Contents/Resources/google_appengine/google/appengine/runtime/wsgi.py", line 299, in _LoadHandler
    handler, path, err = LoadObject(self._handler)
  File "/Applications/GoogleAppEngineLauncher.app/Contents/Resources/GoogleAppEngine-default.bundle/Contents/Resources/google_appengine/google/appengine/runtime/wsgi.py", line 85, in LoadObject
    obj = __import__(path[0])
ImportError: No module named helloworld
INFO     2016-04-02 04:43:47,606 module.py:787] default: "GET / HTTP/1.1" 500 -

2. Using google app engine launcher I created a new application and this gave me all the files I needed. So I just ran it. It shows me a port number, and when I tried that on chrome, " http://localhost:8000 " I get the same error as the first msg.

What is it that I am doing wrong? Thank you.

Answer 1

The issue you have is that you've named your module main.py , but told the GAE server to look for a module named helloworld . That module doesn't exist, so the site can't be loaded.

Either rename your main.py file to helloworld.py , or change app.yaml to point to main.app instead of helloworld.app .

Answer 2

webapp2 doesnt have a good introduction. if you're new to web frameworks i would adivse you to start through this one.

https://github.com/iogf/untwisted

It is an event-driven library that has a set of plugins implemented and one of the is a micro web framework whose design is similar to flask but much faster.