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-#  For Google App Engine deployment, copy this file to app.yaml
-#  and edit as required
-#  See http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/config/appconfig.html
-#  and http://web2py.com/book/default/chapter/11?search=app.yaml
-
-application: yourappname
-version: 1
-api_version: 1
-
-# use these lines for Python 2.7
-# upload app with: appcfg.py update web2py (where 'web2py' is web2py's root directory)
-#
-runtime: python27
-threadsafe: true    # true for WSGI & concurrent requests (Python 2.7 only)
-
-default_expiration: "24h"   # for static files
-
-handlers:
-
-# Warning! Static mapping - below - isn't compatible with 
-# the parametric router's language logic. 
-# You cannot use them together.
-
-- url: /(.+?)/static/_(\d+\.\d+\.\d+)\/(.+)
-  static_files: applications/\1/static/\3
-  upload: applications/(.+?)/static/(.+)
-  secure: optional
-  expiration: "365d"
-
-- url: /(.+?)/static/(.+)
-  static_files: applications/\1/static/\2
-  upload: applications/(.+?)/static/(.+)
-  secure: optional
-
-- url: /favicon.ico
-  static_files: applications/welcome/static/favicon.ico
-  upload: applications/welcome/static/favicon.ico
-
-- url: /robots.txt
-  static_files: applications/welcome/static/robots.txt
-  upload: applications/welcome/static/robots.txt
-
-- url: .*
-  script: gaehandler.wsgiapp    # WSGI (Python 2.7 only)
-  secure: optional
-
-admin_console:
-  pages:
-  - name: Appstats
-    url: /_ah/stats
-
-skip_files: |
- ^(.*/)?(
- (app\.yaml)|
- (app\.yml)|
- (index\.yaml)|
- (index\.yml)|
- (#.*#)|
- (.*~)|
- (.*\.py[co])|
- (.*/RCS/.*)|
- (\..*)|
- (applications/examples/.*)|
- ((examples|welcome)\.(w2p|tar))|
- (applications/.*?/(cron|databases|errors|cache|sessions)/.*)|
- ((logs|scripts)/.*)|
- (anyserver\.py)|
- (web2py\.py)|
- ((cgi|fcgi|modpython|wsgi)handler\.py)|
- (epydoc\.(conf|css))|
- (httpserver\.log)|
- (logging\.example\.conf)|
- (route[rs]\.example\.py)|
- (setup_(app|exe)\.py)|
- (splashlogo\.gif)|
- (parameters_\d+\.py)|
- (options_std.py)|
- (gluon/tests/.*)|
- (gluon/rocket\.py)|
- (contrib/(gateways|markdown|memcache|pymysql)/.*)|
- (contrib/(populate|taskbar_widget)\.py)|
- (google_appengine/.*)|
- (.*\.(bak|orig))|
- )$
-
-builtins:
-- remote_api: on
-- appstats: on
-- admin_redirect: on
-- deferred: on