Posted by sigismo on May 20, 2013 at 3:06pm
I saw this post on running drupal on appengine and thought I would share.
http://blog.boombatower.com/drupal-google-app-engine
Drupal + GAE
I saw this post on running drupal on appengine and thought I would share.
http://blog.boombatower.com/drupal-google-app-engine
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Cool, David Bain is doing a
Cool, David Bain is doing a GAE presentation this Tuesday: http://tutorate.com/googleappengine/
I've also seen a notice fr it on the 22nd. I really hope it's on Thursday the 22nd because I have that evening available.
Has anyone tried Drupal on
Has anyone tried Drupal on GAE?
yes :)
yes I've tried it :) basically building on top of the drupal modifications given at boombatower.com I've also created a sandbox project for drupal + GAE that is going to act as a drop-in replacement for solving drupal's biggest two problems (hopefully this will expand with time):
* replacing Drupal's default mail system with a mail system that uses GAE's Mail library (working)
* providing a way to write uploaded files to GAE's cloud stroage rather than writing to /sites/default/files (planned)
the snadbox project can be also found here https://drupal.org/sandbox/FooZee/2032725 :) any help / suggestions are really welcome :)
GAE file quotas & push-to-deploy
One big problem I've run up against is the GAE files per application quota of 10,000. A typical feature-rich Drupal site can quickly surpass this.
A clever way to workaround this at the moment seems to be to use the push-to-deploy through git feature rather than deploy through the SDK console. However I've hit another snag with how Drupal renders the $styles tag in the html.tpl.php. For some reason CSS tags are omitted when viewing a Drupal page uploaded using push-to-deploy (appcfg.py console is fine for some reason).
I'll come back and report on any solutions I find.
Cool. Thanks @clevernameood
Cool. Thanks @clevernameood good to know if people have hit major stumbling blocks like that.