Uploading Your Application

You create and manage App Engine applications using the Google Developers Console. Once you have created a new project and registered a project ID for it, you upload your application using appcfg.py, a command-line tool provided in the SDK.

Registering the Application

You create and manage App Engine applications from the Developers Console, at the following URL:

https://console.developers.google.com/

Note: You may have already created a project using the Google Developers Console. If this is the case, you do not have to create a new application.

To create a new application, click the "Create a Project" button. Follow the instructions to register a project ID, a name unique to this application.

Note: You can specify that your new application should reside in the European Union, rather than the United States. Hosting applications in the European Union is especially useful if your application's users are closer to Europe than to the United States. There is less network latency and the End User Content will be stored at rest in the European Union. You must specify this location when you register the application; you cannot change it later. Click Show Advanced Options in the Create Project section to select a location option, either United States or European Union.

If your application uses Google Cloud SQL for data storage (none of the examples in the PHP Getting Started tutorial do) then you must also request a Google Cloud SQL instance.

Uploading the Application

Warning: Starting with App Engine release 1.9.20, your application app.yaml configuration must contain runtime:php55. Deployment (uploading) of your app will fail if you use the older setting of runtime:php.

Uploading via command line

Run the following command, using your project ID in the -A argument:

appcfg.py -A <YOUR_PROJECT_ID> update helloworld/

This command opens a browser window for you to sign in using your Google account. Enter your Google username and password at the prompts.

Accessing Your Application

You can now see your application running on App Engine. If you set up a free appspot.com domain name, the URL for your website begins with your project ID:

http://<YOUR_PROJECT_ID>.appspot.com

Congratulations!

You have completed this tutorial. For more information on the subjects covered here, see the rest of the App Engine documentation.