Updating a web app via azure pipelines and FTP

Question

Hello

When I update spicetheworld.com from within Visual Studio with these creds it all goes well

However when I try to update spicetheworld.com from a azure pipeline

Test 1

      - task: FtpUpload@2
        displayName: 'FTP Upload'
        inputs:
          credentialsOption: inputs
          serverUrl: 'ftp://ftp.spicetheworld.com'
          username: azure
          password: ##########
          rootDirectory: '$(build.artifactstagingdirectory)'
          remoteDirectory: '/'
          trustSSL: true
          clean: true
          preservePaths: true

I get

Test 2

- task: FtpUpload@2
        displayName: 'FTP Upload'
        inputs:
          credentialsOption: inputs
          serverUrl: 'ftp://ftp.spicetheworld.com'
          username: azure
          password: ##########
          rootDirectory: '$(build.artifactstagingdirectory)'
          remoteDirectory: '/spicetheworld.com'
          trustSSL: true
          clean: true
          preservePaths: true

However instead of updating the folder /spicetheworld.com this has created a new folder structure /spicetheworld.com/spicetheworld.com/SpiceTheWorld and the visible site is not updated.

To confirm the FTP user is called azure and the root folder for this user is /spicetheworld.com

Any ideas on where I am going wrong please

Answer 1

Hi Kev Martin,
The issue seems to be with mapping of your rootDirectory.

By default, '$(build.artifactstagingdirectory)' takes the application root directory.

• Instead of root directory set the parent rootDirectory value to the exact folder path $(Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory)/SpiceTheWorld.

As per this MSDoc, preserve path has to be set to false.

• preservePaths: true will recreate the entire structure under the remote folder.

So, to upload the files without any folders set the preservePaths to false.

• Store the FTP Username and Password in variables section.

Hope this helps.

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Answer 2

Thanks for the tip above, that helped and now I have a solution as below

With these changes and changing the destination folder from spicetheworld.com to spicetheworld we now have a fully working soution.

      - task: FtpUpload@2
        displayName: 'FTP Upload'
        inputs:
          credentialsOption: inputs
          serverUrl: 'ftp://5.77.32.147'
          username: $(ftpUser)
          password: $(ftpPassword)
          rootDirectory: '$(build.artifactstagingdirectory)/spicetheworld'
          remoteDirectory: '/spicetheworld'
          trustSSL: true
          clean: true
          preservePaths: true