5 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
5 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
5 months ago
If this solved it for you, you can mark it as the accepted solution so the thread is closed properly.