Running your App Engine Application

Finally running your Google App Engine application on your computer isn't that hard. I could do it on two easy steps.
First make sure your have downloaded and installed both Python and App Engine SDK.
Then download a sample, I chose Geo Chat.

Ok now after having those installed and downloaded a sample, extract the sample and put it on your Hard disk root. (Don't Ask me why, you can put it on another place, any place, but as you are using a command line and not windows then you should have easy to write path).

After extracting and putting the sample files, run the Ms-dos command line and type the following:

dev_appserver.py c:\geochat

Replace geochat with your sample folder name. Now visit your Localhost, you should see your application up and running on your computer.

As the sample use Google Maps and Google accounts, so an internet connection is needed and Google server must be up!

That was quite easy cool and interesting. It really put me on the right way! Now I'm going to try to upload the Geo chat to the App Engine Server, which may be another story...