Does my PHP project need appengine-web.xml

Question

Setting up IntelliJ IDEA to run my PHP Wordpress (for App Engine) projects. Google Cloud Tools installed.

Have imported existing project files and then went to Tools > Google Cloud Tools > Run on a local App Engine Standard dev server.

An error is returned:

Project does not contain App Engine Standard modules: To use the App Engine Standard local development server, the project must contain at least one App Engine Standard module with an appengine-web.xml configuration file.

I read up on appengine-web.xml and apparently its used for Java projects. I'm trying to run PHP at the moment.

I haven't dealt with this file type before, is it similar to app.yaml?

Do I need this fie to set up my local server for PHP?

Answer 1

Actually the file appengine-web.xml corresponds to the App Engine Java runtime, you don't need to use it in your PHP project. It is similar to the app.yaml in the sense that it is where you define your default service.

In order to define the default service in your PHP app, you need the app.yaml. There are also optional configuration files, such as:

dispatch.yaml, queue.yaml, index.yaml, cron.yaml, dos.yaml

On a side note, maybe PHP Storm or Eclipse with the PHP Development tools are more suitable for your use case.