Vanilla Forums on Google App Engine

maximusprime

Hello,

I was looking for any guide or to know whether it's possible to use Vanilla forums on google app engine.

Looking forward to helpful replies,
Thank you.

hgtonight

Looks like they support PHP and a MySQL compatible "Cloud SQL".

You can find the PHP getting started page here: https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/php/gettingstarted/introduction

x00

This is why I prefer to IaaS to PaaS. There is no trying to get a platform specific version, that you can't use outside of this platform.

Bleistivt

In theory vanilla should be compatible:
https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/php/#PHP_Enabled_extensions
You could even use memcached

However, as far as I understand, you cannot store files directly where your app is.
It should be possible to direct PATH_CONF, PATH_CACHE and PATH_UPLOADS to a google cloud storage bucket from your bootstrap.php

Would be an interesting experiment.

maximusprime

Will give this a try and report how it goes. Thanks a lot guys.

Bleistivt

I was about to try it yesterday, but was reluctant to set up billing for SQL, so I got stuck there.
However the equivalent of vanillas .htaccess rewrite rules on AppEngine should be something like:

- url: /(.*\.(ico$|jpg$|png$|gif$|css$|js$))
  static_files: \1
  application_readable: true
- url: /(.*)
  script: index.php\?p=\1

(be careful, untested!)

If it works, please post your steps in the tutorials section!