Gunicorn not work outside project directory, even export PWD=$DJANGODIR

Question

I use a bash script to run gunicorn. It is named _run_gunicorn.sh_

#!/bin/bash
NAME=new_project 
DJANGODIR=/home/flame/Projects/$NAME
SOCKFILE=/home/flame/launch/web.sock
USER=flame                               
GROUP=flame                                                     
DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=$NAME.settings 
DJANGO_WSGI_MODULE=$NAME.wsgi

# export PWD=$DJANGODIR   # still not work if I uncomment THIS LINE

RUNDIR=$(dirname $SOCKFILE)
test -d $RUNDIR || mkdir -p $RUNDIR
gunicorn ${DJANGO_WSGI_MODULE}:application \
  --name $NAME \
  --workers 7 \
  --user=$USER --group=$GROUP \
  --log-level=debug \
  --bind=unix:$SOCKFILE

If I run from the project dir:

[/home/flame/Projects/new_project]$ bash run_gunicorn.sh

It works well. But if

[~]$ bash Projects/new_project/run_gunicorn.sh

it raises errors:

gunicorn.errors.HaltServer: <HaltServer 'Worker failed to boot.' 3>

I guess it is about current working directory. So I change the add export PWD=$DJANGODIR before gunicorn run. But the error remains.

Is it about some python related environment variables? Or what's the problem?

Answer 1

Using

export PWD=$DJANGODIR

you do NOT actually change your current working directory. You can easily check this in a shell by using the command pwd after the set. You will have to include something like

cd $DJANGODIR

into your script.