Uploading Your Application

You create and manage applications in App Engine using the Administration Console. Once you have registered an application ID for your application, you upload it to your website using a command-line tool provided in the SDK called appcfg.py.

Note: As of this writing, there is no way to delete an application in App Engine. This ability will be added soon. During this preview period, you can register up to 3 application IDs. If you do not want to use one of your allotted application IDs for the tutorial, you can just read this section, and refer to it later when you are ready to upload your first application.

Registering the Application

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

http://appengine.google.com/

Sign in to App Engine using your Google account. If you do not have a Google account, you can create a Google account with an email address and password.

To create a new application, click the "Create an Application" button. Follow the instructions to register an application ID, a name unique to this application. If you elect to use the free appspot.com domain name, the full URL for the application will be http://application-id.appspot.com/. You can also purchase a top-level domain name for your app, or use one that you have already registered.

Edit the app.yaml file, then change the value of the application: setting from helloworld to your registered application ID.

Uploading the Application

To upload your finished application to Google App Engine, run the following command:

appcfg.py update helloworld/

Enter your Google username and password at the prompts.

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 application ID:

http://application-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.