Error: Not Found The requested URL / was not found on this server.

[Naheez Thawfeeg]

Dear all

I am trying to host a HTLML only static website on app engine...The website is www.guestworm.com and I followed this tutorial to upload and deploy 

my website : https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/python/getting-started/hosting-a-static-website

I get the following error when I visit my site after deploying ant it's not working : 

Error: Not Found

The requested URL / was not found on this server.

Can anyone help fix this issue?

[Ani Hatzis]

Hello Naheez,

unless you have deployed an app.yaml file that is different from the tutorial (as described here), you probably just forgot to deploy the static file index.html into your app's www/ directory as described here. Also for this tutorial example, the www/ directory should be in the same directory as your app.yaml file. For example:

/my-local-computer/my-app/

/my-local-computer/my-app/app.yaml

/my-local-computer/my-app/www/index.html

/my-local-computer/my-app/www/css/style.css

and so on.

According to the error page, the request actually reached your application, so you will be able to investigate the requests in your logs.

In Cloud Console, go to Logging, select your App Engine project (so you can see the logging for all services of the app), and search for a request that caused this 404 status and the path "/". Optionally, you can enter "status:404" in Logging's text search to filter for such logs.

Expand a matching log record and you will see details that probably will tell you what exactly went wrong under the hood. The user-facing error pages are not very helpful for debugging (and they shouldn't be for security reasons).

[Naheez Thawfeeg]

Thank you...It worked...I misplaced the app.yaml file and didn't create the www directory...I moved the HTML files to www directory and kept the app.yaml file and deployed the app and it worked...Thank you so much...:)