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I am learning how to move my existing PHP project to gCloud.
For the same, I created an AppEngine project and have placed my code there.

Everything seems to work except the PHP files.

When I launch my project, the index files launches (as specified in app.yaml) and then where the PHP should execute, it's renders the index.html file. This creates a deadly loop of index calling PHP calling index calling PHP :(

I am sure I have my app.yaml wrong, but am unable to figure out where the problem is.

My yaml looks like this:

runtime: php55
api_version: 1
threadsafe: true
handlers: 
- url: /dialpad_research/(.*.(appcache|manifest))
 mime_type: text/cache-manifest
 static_files: dialpad_research/static/1
 upload: dialpad_research/static/(.*.(appcache|manifest))

- url: /dialpad_research/static
 static_dir: dialpad_research/static

# image files
- url: /dialpad_research/static/(.*.(bmp|gif|ico|jpeg|jpg|png))
 static_files: static/1
 upload: static/(.*.(bmp|gif|ico|jpeg|jpg|png))
# dialpad root
- url: /dialpad_research.*
 static_files: dialpad_research/static/index.html
 upload: dialpad_research/static/index.html

- url: /dialpad_research/api/(.+.php)$
 script: api/1

Any help is appreciated.

Folder structure is like this:

Root
|
---- app.yaml
---- dialpad_research (folder)
 |
 ---- static (folder with index file)
 ---- api (folder with PHP files)

You have to be careful with your regex matching. This url pattern:

- url: /dialpad_research/static

will match:

- url: /dialpad_research/static(anything to follow)

So, it will never get to the handler below:

- url: /dialpad_research/static/(.*.(bmp|gif|ico|jpeg|jpg|png))

Same for:

- url: /dialpad_research.*

After that, it can never get to:

- url: /dialpad_research/api/(.+.php)$

Reorder your handlers so that they don't short-circuit.

Next, /api/ and /static/ are not at the root so your paths to them are incorrect. See below:

handlers: 
- url: /dialpad_research/(.*.(appcache|manifest))
 mime_type: text/cache-manifest
 static_files: dialpad_research/static/1
 upload: dialpad_research/static/(.*.(appcache|manifest))

# image files
- url: /dialpad_research/static/(.*.(bmp|gif|ico|jpeg|jpg|png))
 static_files: dialpad_research/static/1
 upload: dialpad_research/static/(.*.(bmp|gif|ico|jpeg|jpg|png))

- url: /dialpad_research/api/(.+.php)$
 script: dialpad_research/api/1

- url: /dialpad_research/static
 static_dir: dialpad_research/static

# dialpad root
- url: /dialpad_research.*
 static_files: dialpad_research/static/index.html
 upload: dialpad_research/static/index.html