title: Running Mezzanine on App Engine
body: <p>I am looking for a blog solution to run inside a Django project deployed on the Google App Engine.  After a bit of review I decided to try out Mezzanine v0.11.3.  I've overcome the hurdle of getting it in project using the advice of others deploying on App Engine at this link:  <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/mezzanine-users/browse_thread/thread/c8b13c41a3168c94" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://groups.google.com/group/mezzanine-users/browse_thread/thread/c8b13c41a3168c94</a>. </p>
  
  <p>Mezzanine is now showing up in the Admin, but clicking on Blog posts leads to a multi-table inheritance failure.  I believe that this is due to multi-site support functionality in Mezzanine via use of the Django sites framework.</p>
  
  <p>Has anyone overcome this issue?  I'm going to try to use django-dbindexer but I'm not confident it will work.</p>
  
  <p>*Update:  as far as I can tell, the folks at AllButtonsPressed don't have any magic solutions to work around ManyToManyField issues yet, so I think that option is dead.</p>
  
  <p>If no one knows a work around, do any of you know of a good blog solution I can run inside a Django project on the App Engine?</p>
  
  <p>*Update: found this post <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5053342/integrating-blogger-into-a-google-app-engine-app">Integrating Blogger into a Google App Engine App</a>.  Will investigate if this solves the problem.</p>
  
  <p>*Current Status:
  I have not been able to solve this problem and I don't think it is currently solvable.  Thought I would share what I found through my investigations though; maybe someone out there can carry on and come up with a solution.</p>
  
  <p>Options tried:</p>
  
  <p>Bloog</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>I looked this over but it is a Python
  solution, not a Django solution and I
  didn't want to do the work to turn it
  into one</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Byteflow ( <a href="https://bitbucket.org/piranha/byteflow/wiki/Home" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://bitbucket.org/piranha/byteflow/wiki/Home</a> ) notes:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>designed to be standalone, will need a
  lot of edits to settings.py,
  inclusion of 12 additional apps and
  overrides on account settings plus
  hand tuning at every upgrade.</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>AppEngineBlog ( <a href="http://code.google.com/p/appengineblogsoftware/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://code.google.com/p/appengineblogsoftware/</a> ) notes:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>written in appengine specific code,
  not maintained, no example sites
  available to see how it looks</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Coltrane ( <a href="http://code.google.com/p/coltrane-blog/source/browse/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://code.google.com/p/coltrane-blog/source/browse/</a> ):</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>simple blog constructed from standard
  Django functionality no development
  or support, basically need to use
  this code as a way to develop your
  own blog and go from there</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Flother ( <a href="https://github.com/flother/flother" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/flother/flother</a> ):</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>found via Coltrane comments, probably
  embeddable without too much trouble,
  requires 8 additional apps,the photos
  and places components have
  ManyToManyFields that would have to
  be re-written or these components
  disabled</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Blogger API ( <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/blogger/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://code.google.com/apis/blogger/</a> ):</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>use Blogger at whatever location you
  wish to gain fully functional
  blogging capabilities, then use
  Blogger API to deliver content to any
  other site you wish to display it</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Flother came close to what I need but there is still a fair bit of uncertainty and effort there.  I'm proceeding with the Blogger option as the only viable choice for me at this time.</p>