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I have written the following .bat file:

start chrome http://127.0.0.1:8000/
venv\Scripts\activate
python manage.py runserver 8000

When I perform these steps myself, one by one, in prompt, it runs the server and opens the site perfectly.

However, when I use iexpress to convert this file to an .exe and run it, the site just displays the "unavailable" message, as if no server were running.

I'm not sure, but I think this is because the exe closes as soon as it's executed the commands, instead of keeping the server running. How do I fix this?

Themlethem
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First of all, you dont need to activate venv in bat: Activate virtualenv and run .py script from .bat . What you need is to specify the path to your venv directory: {path to virtual environment directory}/Scripts/python.exe

Then, try to add pause to the end of your bat file. Then, if there is, please post errors in CMD promt to figure out what is happening

Evgeny Mishkin
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  • Thanks, the program launches now. However it led to another problem. The exe is run in local/temp instead of from where I called it. Which means that in .bat I need to put the full path to manage.py instead of a relative one, as I would like. On top of that, inside the program itself, it now can't find any of the relative paths either. How can I get it to run from the folder, as it does when I do it manually in commandprompt? – Themlethem Jan 11 '22 at 09:26