Install Google App Engine on Ubuntu 12.04

py27_gae_project.sh

PROJ=py27_gae_project
mkvirtualenv --python=python2.7 ${PROJ}
cdvirtualenv

GAE=1.6.5
wget -O /tmp/gae.zip http://googleappengine.googlecode.com/files/google_appengine_${GAE}.zip
unzip /tmp/gae.zip

GAE_APP_NAME=dummy
mkdir -p gae_app/static

echo """application: ${GAE_APP_NAME}
version: development
runtime: python27
api_version: 1
threadsafe: true

default_expiration: 7d

handlers:
- url: /static
  static_dir: static
- url: .*
  script: wsgi_app.app
""" > gae_app/app.yaml


echo """import webapp2

class MainPage(webapp2.RequestHandler):
  def get(self):
      self.response.headers['Content-Type'] = 'text/plain'
      self.response.out.write('Please replace me with a decent WSGI App Framework such as Flask')

app = webapp2.WSGIApplication([('/', MainPage)],
                              debug=True)
""" > gae_app/wsgi_app.py

python ./google_appengine/dev_appserver.py gae_app/