go/cmd/godoc

Copyright 2011 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
license that can be found in the LICENSE file.

godoc on appengine
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Prerequisites
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* Go appengine SDK
  https://developers.google.com/appengine/downloads#Google_App_Engine_SDK_for_Go

* Go sources at tip under $GOROOT


Directory structure
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* Let $APPDIR be the directory containing the app engine files.
  (e.g., $APPDIR=$HOME/godoc-app)

* $APPDIR contains the following entries (this may change depending on
  app-engine release and version of godoc):

	app.yaml
	godoc.zip
	godoc/
	index.split.*

* The app.yaml file is set up per app engine documentation.
  For instance:

	application: godoc-app
	version: 1
	runtime: go
	api_version: go1

	handlers:
	- url: /.*
	  script: _go_app

* The godoc/ directory contains a copy of the files under $GOROOT/src/cmd/godoc
  with doc.go excluded (it belongs to pseudo-package "documentation")


Configuring and running godoc
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To configure godoc, run

	bash setup-godoc-app.bash

to create the godoc.zip, index.split.*, and godoc/appconfig.go files
based on $GOROOT and $APPDIR. See the script for details on usage.

To run godoc locally, using the app-engine emulator, run

	<path to google_appengine>/dev_appserver.py $APPDIR

godoc should come up at http://localhost:8080 .