Hi Donatas,

What's the use case of writing to the public directory? If it is just for
writing temporary file (like temporary cache for performance), you can
still use other directories (/tmp, /app/otherdir etc). If you want to
dynamically update the content in the public directory, unfortunately it
won't work, because the files in the local disk are only available to the
specific instance, and they are volatile so that when the server restarted
for some reason, the files will be lost.

As Jordan said, using Cloud Storage might be a good option. There is a
handy GCS stream wrapper
<https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/google-cloud-php/blob/master/src/Storage/StreamWrapper.php>
available, so you can use the GCS bucket as if they are local directory (of
course it's slower than the local disk).


On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 11:22 AM 'Jordan (Cloud Platform Support)' via
Google App Engine <[email protected]> wrote:

> Is there a specific reason why you require the need to perform writes to
> your 'public/app' folder? Scalable applications in the cloud should
> normally never perform writes to the local filesystem, as data written in
> an App Engine instance is released with the instance when it is no longer
> needed (e.g. when incoming traffic reduces and your App Engine instances
> scale down
> <https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/flexible/php/an-overview-of-app-engine#instance_scaling>
> ).
>
> It is recommended you perform writes to a non-volatile/persistent location
> like Google Cloud Storage <https://cloud.google.com/storage/> or the Google
> Cloud Datastore <https://cloud.google.com/datastore/> that can be
> written/read by your application running in multiple App Engine instances.
> You can follow the Reading and Writing Files
> <https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/php/googlestorage/>
> guide for PHP which explains how to use Google Cloud Storage as a wrapper
> for reading and writing files in an App Engine PHP app.
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