Blank page on PHP Hello World

[Jefrey Sobreira]

Hi all!

I'm newest in Google App Engine and I'm trying to use the PHP runtime.

Following the Hello World tutorial (https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/php/gettingstarted/helloworld) I faced a problem when accessing my app runing in localhost:

The path specified with the --php_executable_path flag () does not exist.

So I changed the command line to:

python dev_appserver.py helloworld/ --php_executable_path /usr/bin/php

(i tired as root and also as non-root)

Now that error isn't appearing anymore. But all I see is a blank page...

On the terminal, no errors:

INFO     2013-12-07 01:05:22,645 sdk_update_checker.py:245] Checking for updates to the SDK.
INFO     2013-12-07 01:05:23,219 sdk_update_checker.py:261] Update check failed: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
INFO     2013-12-07 01:05:23,253 api_server.py:138] Starting API server at: http://localhost:48733
INFO     2013-12-07 01:05:23,269 dispatcher.py:171] Starting module "default" running at: http://localhost:8080
INFO     2013-12-07 01:05:23,275 admin_server.py:117] Starting admin server at: http://localhost:8000
INFO     2013-12-07 01:05:31,095 module.py:617] default: "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 -

Any help will be appreciated.

[Mars Lan]

Are you running this on Linux? If so you can view the error messages in syslog using cat /var/log/syslog

[Vinny P]

On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 7:10 PM, Jefrey Sobreira <jefrey....@gmail.com> wrote:

The path specified with the --php_executable_path flag () does not exist. 

So I changed the command line to:
python dev_appserver.py helloworld/ --php_executable_path /usr/bin/php
(i tired as root and also as non-root)
Now that error isn't appearing anymore. But all I see is a blank page...

Can you run a search for the PHP executable (i.e. run sudo find / -name php-cgi )? I was under the impression that PHP installs under usr/bin/php-cgi.

 

 

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-Vinny P

Technology & Media Advisor

Chicago, IL

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[Andrew Jessup]

You need to specify the php-cgi binary, not the PHP binary

[Radu Popa]

I had the same problem : I has giving the path to php not tophp-cgi

Thank you for your answers.