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Dear all,

I am having problems when deploying a Flask app into pythonanywhere.

I do have a signup form and when the user sings up, I want to create a folder with the username and a .josn file inside the folder to store other data that the user will input later on.

It works perfectly in my local server, but when uploading the project into pyhtonanywhere I get the following error:

FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/XXX/app/static/JsonData/foldername'

It looks like having problems to find the path but I don't know how to solve it. Here my code:

    ## ----------- CREATE A FOLDER WITH USERNAME (TO STORE JSON FILES) --------- ##
    ## creates a folder in JsonData folder to store the project data files ##
    ## the folder name is = username used to signup ##
    cwd=os.getcwd()
    path=os.path.join(cwd, new_user.username)
    os.mkdir(path)

    ## ----------- CREATES FIRST JSON FILE TO STORE PROJECT DATA --------- ##
    # creates a first json file called username_BaseScenario stored in the previous folder
    jsonName=formSignup.username.data + '_BaseScenario.json'
    filePath=os.path.join(path, jsonName)

   ## ---- CREATES A NEW JSON FILE TO STORE PROJECT DATA ------ ##
    #create a dictionary that will be transformed into a json file
    newProject={
               bunch of lines code for the dictionary
    }

    #converts the dict to json and store it in the fileName path
    with open(filePath, 'w') as outfile:
        json.dump(newProject, outfile)

I am usign the getcwd() which I thought it was an absolute path and it should work, but I don't know. Any help will be much appreciated. I readed some answers about similar problems but I was not able to solve it, I tried harcoding the path, but with the same result. so it mustbe something else

Thanks in advance

Make sure what is the actual cwd (you can check the value of the Working directory at the Web app page as well).