How to host your website using Google App Engine

First we are going to learn how to create Google App Engine application using eclipse.

•        To do that first you need to install Google plugin for eclipse.
•        Then you have to create web application project in eclipse.
•                    Finally you have to deploy it .

As the first step go to http://appengine.google.com

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You must logging to your Google account.If you are new to Google App Engine it will display.

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Then click on Create Application button.Then below window will be loaded.

Application Identifier must be between 6 and 30 characters. Lowercase letters, digits, and hyphens are acceptable characters. Must start with a letter. Trailing hyphens are prohibited.

You can change your Application title anytime but you cannot change your application identifier.

Then open eclipse and select a work space for your project. Now you have to Google to find Google eclipse plugin. In my case Google eclipse plugin Kepler.

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 https://dl.google.com/eclipse/plugin/4.3 copy this URL and follow the instruction on the above site to install that plugin into your eclipse

We only need to install

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After you installing the software blue color Google icon will appear in the top menu.

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Click on that icon and create Google web application project.

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Then it will leads to the bellow window.Project name and package name is up to you.

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Then the  project structure will looks like

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Just delete the Test.html & Test.css  .Then create your own index.html file inside war folder.

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Type anything  you need to display in your web page just like below.

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 Your console tab will looks like below

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Then open your web browser and go to the link http://localhost:8888/

Or http://127.0.0.1:8888/ . you will have the output you wish to have.

Now I am going to deploy my web application in App Engine.Before doing that first you need to  stop your application.

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Then it will ask you to logging to your Google account.

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Then click on accept button to continue.Then this window will appear.

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Then click on the link “App Engine Project settings”

 

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Now you have to give the Application ID .Application ID is the one you created in https://appengine.google.com/ the hello-webapp1

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 Then it’s ready to deploy

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Now any one can access it by using this url http://1-dot-hello-webapp1.appspot.com/

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I would like to share some small things I have done using App Engine .Here are the links

http://nadeeshaapp1.appspot.com/

http://southern-fitness-center.appspot.com/
http://1-dot-idreamz-jobwallet.appspot.com/  

(If you forget your app URL go to the Administration Application settings and You will find your URL under  Application Identifier Alias J)