Why browser doesnt recognize jquery when <script src="...jquery.js> is on a html page served by Google App Engine (from a http request)?

Question

jquery.js source code is not being recognised by browser using my page.html served by Google App Engine as a http:some_request to the SDK, BUT when I load the exact same page.html into the browser directly from my local hard drive as jquery.js all works OK, it is recognized, so I know my path is OK....

In the header of my page.html I have the following:

<script src="/static/jquery.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

From my app.yaml:

- url: /static
  static_dir: static
  expiration: 1d

Answer 1

For the second try this one

<script src="./static/jquery.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

Double check your paths, and also check the weather of external scripts are they available.

Answer 2

Did you upload jquery.js with you app and set up a static file handler for it?

Answer 3

or you can try referencing the jQuery file as

<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

Answer 4

The key is that all files you want to be recognized by the client's browser such jquery.js should be inside a directory that is inside the static directory.

So the portion of the app.yaml file that relates to this should appear as follows:

- url: /jquery
  static_dir: static/jquery


- url: /static
  static_dir: static
  expiration: 1d

what is key line that I now changed to make it work is where jquery stuff is inside static directory: static_dir: static/jquery

so now in the header section of the page.html I have this working so I can work with the SDK off-line:

<script type="text/javascript" src="/jquery/jquery.js" ></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/jquery/jquery.form.js" ></script>