The command you use to start the proxy needs to read the directory configuration setting, APPD_DIR, the base directory for the AppDynamics Python Agent configuration. Make sure it is correctly set. The default is /tmp/appd/.

You can make this setting available to the proxy in any of the following ways:

• Setting the environment variable APPD_DIR manually.
• Setting the APPD_CONFIG_FILE environment variable to point to the configuration file and then setting the base directory in the configuration file. See Install the Python Agent.
• Passing in the path to the configuration file to the pyagent proxy command using -c (—config-file) option as illustrated below.