Cannot get index.html in webapp2 with python27

Question

I am trying to go from python2.5 to python 2.7 in google app engine.

I just cannot get index.html up and going. I get a blank webpage, and nothing more. index.html is in the same directory as the .yaml and .py files.

I cannot find out how to make it work, cause there is no such tutorials or examples or anything that tells you how to render index.html.

What I found are examples that write out 'Hello World!'. I've found some 'almost there'-examples, but it's not quite there.

Here are app.yaml and main.py

application: myapp
version: main
runtime: python27
api_version: 1
threadsafe: yes

handlers:
- url: /(.*\.(gif|png|jif|jpg|jpeg|ico|js|css))
 static_files: \1
 upload: (.*\.(gif|png|jpeg|jpg|ico|js|css))

- url: .*
 script: main.application

.

import os

import webapp2
from google.appengine.ext.webapp import template

class BaseHandler(webapp2.RequestHandler):
  def render_template(self, filename, **template_args):
     path = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'templates', filename)
     self.response.write(template.render(path, template_args))

class IndexHandler(BaseHandler):
  def get(self):
    self.render_template('index.html', name=self.request.get('name'))

application = webapp2.WSGIApplication([
    ('/', IndexHandler),
], debug=True)

What exactly doesn't work?

dornhege
– dornhege

2014-01-09 16:06:03 +00:00
Commented Jan 9, 2014 at 16:06 — dornhege
– dornhege, Commented Jan 9, 2014 at 16:06
It does not load index.html

stianlp
– stianlp

2014-01-09 16:10:17 +00:00
Commented Jan 9, 2014 at 16:10 — stianlp
– stianlp, Commented Jan 9, 2014 at 16:10

Wooble · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-09 16:29:22Z

2

In the line:

     path = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'templates', filename)

You're telling your code to look for your template to render in the directory "templates", not in the root directory of your app. Either use a "templates" directory, or remove it from the join.

answered Jan 9, 2014 at 16:29

Wooble

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