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Deploy artifact without touching a certain subfolder?
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Hi,
I have been working on deployment of a web frontend that is managed by a CMS. In my build artifact I have all the files needed to redeploy, except for a folder "Images" that should be untouched during deployment. The images folder is managed by end users in the CMS.
I'm looking for a solution where I deploy the artifact, but leave the Images folder untouched. I have been trying to first copy the folder out to another folder, and then copy it back after the artifact has been deployed, but this is generating a variety of access denied messages at seemingly random points, which give me the feeling this is not a reliable solution.
Any other approaches that could be applied here?
Best regards,
Justin
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Hi @Justinvolved ,
In this case, I would recommend staging the artifact files first, and then transferring them. Here is the OtterScript you can use for that:
Deploy-Artifact; Transfer-Files ( ToDirectory: c:\websites\the-website-root, Exclude: Images\** );
Cheers,
Alana
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Hi @atripp,
Thanks, that does sound like a good plan.
Altough the script now executes without error, something is wrong, because the log seems to say the artifact was deployed correctly to the working dorectory. but it contains 0 files.
However when I browse the Artifact I can see it does contain files. I must have something wrong still:
Thanks,
Justin
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Hi @Justinvolved,
That message that says "currently contains 0 items" is just telling you that the folder that the artifact is deploying to contains 0 files. After that, it will deploy the artifact files. If you enable verbose logging (setting
Verbose: true
), you will see all the files transferred from the artifact to the working directory.Thanks,
Rich