I am editing my .ebextensions .config file to run some initialisation commands before deployment. I thought this commands would be run in the same folder of the extracted .zip containing my app. But that's not the case. manage.py is in the root directory of my zip and if I do the commands:
01_collectstatic:
command: "source /opt/python/run/venv/bin/activate && python manage.py collectstatic --noinput"
I get a ERROR: [Instance: i-085e84b9d1df851c9] Command failed on instance. Return code: 2 Output: python: can't open file 'manage.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory.
I could do command: "python /opt/python/current/app/manage.py collectstatic --noinput" but that would run the manage.py that successfully was deployed previously instead of running the one that is being deployed atm.
I tried to check what was the working directory of the commands ran by the .config by doing command: "pwd" and it seems that pwd is /opt/elasticbeanstalk/eb_infra which doesn't contain my app.
So I probably need to change $PYTHONPATH to contain the right path, but I don't know which path is it.
In this comment the user added the following to his .config file:
option_settings:
aws:elasticbeanstalk:application:environment:
DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE: myapp.settings
PYTHONPATH: "./src"
Because his manage.py lives inside the src folder within the root of his zip. In my case I would do PYTHONPATH: "." but it's not working.