app.yaml skip_files blocks access to local resources

[andreas schmid]

hi,

in my app i need local resources which i user only locally while developing and don't want to upload them on deploy.
thats why i have this specific folder listed in skip_files.
but since now (probably one of the latest SDK releases) this makes the SDK ignore those files, which is pretty uncool.

skip_files should only avoid to upload those files, not block the access to it.

is there any reason why this is blocking access to those files?

thx

[Nick Johnson]

Hi Andreas,

The appserver deliberately does its best to emulate the production environment; this includes prohibiting access to files your app will not have in production.

If you want to access files that won't be available in production, you should probably write a separate script and run it outside the dev_appserver.

-Nick Johnson

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[Ugorji Nwoke]

Run dev_appserver.py with parameter: --allow_skipped_files 

I think that should work. 

[andreas schmid]

thx ill try this out.

On Nov 9, 2011, at 12:38 AM, Ugorji wrote:

Run dev_appserver.py with parameter: --allow_skipped_files 

I think that should work. 

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