3 months ago
Hey everyone!
I successfully connected to my Railway container using SSH and now I need to run:python manage.py makemigrations
However, I can't figure out how to activate the Python virtual environment (venv).
I’ve looked around the file system but couldn’t find it in the usual places (/app/venv, ./venv, etc).
Any ideas where the venv is located inside the container or how to properly activate it?
Thanks in advance!
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3 months ago
You do not need to activate a venv. Your app is containerized, meaning that its packages, variables, etc. are already loaded
3 months ago
and what happened?
```C:\Users\me>railway ssh
Connected to interactive shell root@b41a25917b4a:/app# python manage.py makemigrations
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/app/manage.py", line 15, in main
from django.core.management import executefromcommand_line
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'django'
The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/app/manage.py", line 26, in
main()
File "/app/manage.py", line 17, in main
raise ImportError(
ImportError: Couldn't import Django. Are you sure it's installed and available on your PYTHONPATH environment variable? Did you forget to activate a virtual environment?
root@b41a25917b4a:/app#
```
3 months ago
Please send your requirements.txt file
asgiref==3.8.1
Django==5.2
django-environ==0.12.0
gunicorn==23.0.0
packaging==24.2
psycopg2-binary==2.9.10
sqlparse==0.5.3
tzdata==2025.2
whitenoise==6.9.03 months ago
Are you deploying from a template or is this a personal repo? I'll have to get familiar with Django to help you further.
3 months ago
Please compare your app's setup to the Django template. I've just created a starter Django project and used ssh to run makemigrations. Looks like it worked fine
3 months ago
3 months ago
!s
Status changed to Solved adam • 3 months ago