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Deploy/Hosting Octopress to Google App Engine

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After I switch my blog to Octopress, I realize that compare with the Google App Engine, the Github gh-pages hosting service is much slower (10 times compare with GAE ping value, 6xxms vs 6xms)

So I believe it’s better to hosting the static blog file to GAE, switch to GAE also enable server side script as a bonus if you didn’t care about portable, which is the most reason I using Octopress.

Just save as app.yaml at your octopress root folder
application: # replace your applyed GAE app id

version: 1

runtime: python27

api_version: 1

threadsafe: true

 
default_expiration: "15m"

 
handlers:

# index files

- url: /(.*)/

  static_files: public/\1/index.html

  upload: public/(.*)/index.html

 
# site root

- url: /

  static_files: public/index.html

  upload: public/index.html

 
- url: /robots.txt

  static_files: public/robots.txt

  upload: public/robots.txt

 
- url: /archives

  static_files: public/archives/index.html

  upload: public/archives/index.html

 
- url: /about

  static_files: public/about/index.html

  upload: public/about/index.html

 
- url: /resume

  static_files: public/resume/index.html

  upload: public/resume/index.html

 
- url: /categories

  static_files: public/categories/index.html

  upload: public/categories/index.html

 
# categories have no '/', so can not cover by index files rule

- url: /categories/(.*)

  static_files: public/categories/\1/index.html

  upload: public/categories/(.*)/index.html

 
- url: /

  static_dir: public

After creating GAE required app.yaml file, using appcfg.py update . to upload your Octopress blog to GAE, yes, certianly you also need install GAE SDK first and apply a GAE account.

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