GAE Python Dev Server won't serve static assets on Windows - MIME type error

[Russ King]

It appears that this issue will affect web2py on windows development and basically all the css files get ignored so its rather obvious its a problem:

http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=11001

and putting the stuff below into the top of the handlers section of app.yaml does appear to fix it - however I don't fully understand these sections and whether a proper correction should be included in the example app.yaml or if you just leave and expect future version of the app engine to sort it out.  If someone that does could just post a recommended app.yaml to overcome the problem that would be great.

Regards

Russ

- url: /(.+?)/static/css/(.+)

  static_files: applications/\1/static/css/\2

  mime_type: text/css

  upload: applications/(.+?)/static/css/(.+)

  secure: optional

- url: /(.+?)/static/images/(.+)

  static_files: applications/\1/static/images/\2

  mime_type: image/png

  upload: applications/(.+?)/static/css/(.+)

  secure: optional

[Massimo Di Pierro]

This appears to be a bug in the windows SDK:

https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=11001

Your workaround only works for the welcome static folder structure but it is not general.

[James Awford]

if using Python 2.7.7 then it is probably the mime type regression, move to 2.7.8 or backwards.

[Russ King]

Many thanks python 2.7.8 fixed as you suggested.

Russ