10 months ago
Hi, its this environment command . /opt/venv/bin/activate no longer working for django or its hass been changed?
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So if the location for the environment has changes, where can it be found?
ls /opt/venv/bin/activate gives cannot access '/opt/venv/bin/activate': No such file or directory
10 months ago
The command
. /opt/venv/bin/activate
fails because that virtualenv path doesn’t exist in your current Railway container. On the images Railway uses now, a venv at /opt/venv is not guaranteed, so:
ls /opt/venv/bin/activate
returns “No such file or directory”.
You don’t actually need to activate a venv manually on Railway: the Python environment is already on PATH inside the service and in railway shell. You can just run your Django commands directly, for example:
python manage.py migrate
python manage.py createsuperuser
python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:$PORT
If you want to see where Python is actually located, you can run:
python -c “import sys; print(sys.executable)”
or
which python
That means no environment is created when the image was created. Great to know
10 months ago
If this solved it for you, you can mark it as the accepted solution so the thread is closed properly.