Exciting news out of Google I/O 2013 reveals PHP support on Google AppEngine. As a php and a appengine-nerd, this is great news. And setting up the local development environment on Ubuntu (13.04) was a breeze.
The PHP runtime for AppEngine requires the cgi-version of php 5.4 (and above) and python 2.7 (and above). Most Ubuntu-installations have python installed, but i’ll cover those steps as well, feel free to skip those if they are redundant for you.
Installing Python
sudo apt-get install python
Installing php5-cgi
(this should be safe to install even if you currently have a php-version installed since it’s the cgi version)
sudo apt-get install php5-cgi
Grabbing the AppEngine for PHP SDK
wget http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/appengine-php/appengine-php-sdk-1.8.0.zip
unzip appengine-php-sdk-1.8.0.zip
Starting a local AppEngine instance using php5-cgi
./dev_appserver.py /path/to/your/app –php_executable_path=/usr/bin/php5-cgi
Your app should now be serving on http://localhost:8080/.
More details can be found in the official documentation:
https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/php/gettingstarted/