!!! note "Technical Details"
    The ASGI specification defines a `root_path` for this use case.

    And the `--root-path` command line option provides that `root_path`.

### Checking the current `root_path`

You can get the current `root_path` used by your application for each request, it is part of the `scope` dictionary (that's part of the ASGI spec).

Here we are including it in the message just for demonstration purposes.

TIANGOLO_BUILD_PACKAGE = os.getenv("TIANGOLO_BUILD_PACKAGE", "fastapi")


def pdm_build_initialize(context: Context) -> None:
    metadata = context.config.metadata
    # Get custom config for the current package, from the env var
    config: Dict[str, Any] = context.config.data["tool"]["tiangolo"][
        "_internal-slim-build"
    ]["packages"][TIANGOLO_BUILD_PACKAGE]
    project_config: Dict[str, Any] = config["project"]

For example, you could have code like this:

```Python
def get_current_user(token: str):
    # authenticate user
    return User()


@app.get("/items/")
def read_items(user: User = Depends(get_current_user)):
    ...


@app.post("/items/")
def create_item(*, user: User = Depends(get_current_user), item: Item):
    ...


@app.get("/items/{item_id}")

      - tutorial/dependencies/dependencies-with-yield.md
    - Security:
      - tutorial/security/index.md
      - tutorial/security/first-steps.md
      - tutorial/security/get-current-user.md
      - tutorial/security/simple-oauth2.md
      - tutorial/security/oauth2-jwt.md
    - tutorial/middleware.md
    - tutorial/cors.md
    - tutorial/sql-databases.md
    - tutorial/bigger-applications.md

# (5)
COPY ./app /code/app

# (6)
CMD ["fastapi", "run", "app/main.py", "--port", "80"]
```

1. Start from the official Python base image.

2. Set the current working directory to `/code`.

    This is where we'll put the `requirements.txt` file and the `app` directory.

3. Copy the file with the requirements to the `/code` directory.