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Have tried getting Craft working on Google App Engine (GAE) using the GAE SDK and after defining CRAFT_STORAGE_PATH first up in the index.php, setting it to a Google Cloud Storage path eg. gs://craft-gae-storage/ I found I had to uncomment the workings of craft_ensureFolderIsReadable function in bootstrap.php so it didn't fail on the folder checks, but then it still dies with the error:

Fatal error: Class 'Craft\PhpMessageSource' not found in /Users/.../Craft-gae-HappyLager/craft/app/framework/YiiBase.php on line 213

I'm using the HappyLager demo combined with the Yii GAE codebase from https://github.com/poul-kg/yii-app-engine with a slightly modified base setup to try to get craft working: https://github.com/moldedjelly/craft-gae

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  • So it just can't resolve that file/class? Does it exist in craft/app/etc/i18n?
    – Brad Bell ♦
    Commented May 8, 2015 at 17:17
  • Yep, PhpMessageSource.php exists in craft/app/etc/i18n. Is there something I can put in a PHP file to output the paths to make sure they're being set correctly?
    – moldedjelly
    Commented May 9, 2015 at 11:55
  • echo __FILE__; or Craft::log(__FILE__, LogLevel::Info, true); if you want it to go to Craft's log files.
    – Brad Bell ♦
    Commented May 9, 2015 at 13:45
  • Further investigating, the Craft class mappings are not being created... I've got the HappyLager demo site working fine on a standard LAMP stack and doing a print_r of the self::$classMap in YiiBase.php no probs: [CLogger] => /Users/.../CLogger.php [Craft\BaseAssetSourceType] => /.../BaseAssetSourceType.php [Craft\GoogleCloudAssetSourceType] => /.../GoogleCloudAssetSourceType.php etc. But trying to output the same from GAE, it only has mapped CLogger. There is something with the class import & autoload functions. It was returning false from the autoload function (line 436)
    – moldedjelly
    Commented May 12, 2015 at 11:59
  • Another difference with the LAMP setup vs. GAE: I put an echo in getComponent and can see that the LAMP setup does getComp. for these classes in order: Craft\CacheService, Craft\ConfigService, Craft\PathService, Craft\HttpRequestService etc. whereas GAE with the same tries to get only the 1 component Craft\PhpMessageSource - then it halts on the error in the original question... Does this difference in the loading (or not loading) of the classes help to indicate what's going wrong?
    – moldedjelly
    Commented May 13, 2015 at 5:42

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I got the same error and started debugging with XDebug.

I've put some hours in this and my conclusion is: You can't run Craft on GAE. It gets worse: You can't even run Yii1 (the framework Craft was built on) on GAE. So that's where it stops.

I did manage to get Craft running on a GAE development server instance, but to do that I had to uncomment every filesystem check in both Craft and Yii (functions like is_dir(), etc). These functions don't even work with the gs:// wrapper.

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  • I'd suspect Yii 2 is going to have the same issue, right? So basically "you can't run any PHP app that uses file system methods on GAE"?
    – Brad Bell ♦
    Commented Jun 10, 2015 at 18:56
  • It's been an open issue for a while now there, see github.com/yiisoft/yii2/issues/953
    – Bob Olde Hampsink
    Commented Jun 11, 2015 at 13:27

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