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Vaibhav Jain
Vaibhav Jain

Reputation: 5507

Popen not executing when called from Django application running on Windows + Apache

I need to call Popen command from my Django app it works on development machine but it is not executing when I try to call that command when application is served by Apache no error either it just finishes silently. 

def backup():
    filename = datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%d-%b-%Y_%I-%M-%S-%p")
    Popen(
        'pg_dump --dbname=postgresql://postgres:[email protected]:5432/db -f D:/backup/%s' % filename,
    shell=True
    )

Can someone please tell me what is wrong .

Upvotes: 2

Views: 524

Answers (1)

Vaibhav Jain
Vaibhav Jain

Reputation: 5507

This post helped me.

I have to modify the call to Popen a bit now I'm invoking psql by full path

Popen(
        r'"C:\Program Files (x86)\PostgreSQL\9.5\bin\pg_dump.exe" --dbname=postgresql://postgres:[email protected]:5432/db -f D:/backup/%s' % filename, shell=True
    )

Everything works fine now

Upvotes: 2

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