Azure Git deploy into site folder not wwwroot

Question

This would seem to be an easy task although I can't find the solution. I've recently started a Laravel 4 project which needs to be hosted on Azure. I've linked Azure to deploy from bitbucket when a change is made. This however pushes the files into "wwwroot" folder in Azure (the public folder). Some of the framework files shouldn't be in the public folder therefore I would like to push to the parent folder "site".

After some research I discovered you can use .deployment file to config deployment options (https://github.com/projectkudu/kudu/wiki/Deployment-hooks)

So I tried .deployment file:

[config]
DEPLOYMENT_TARGET = C:\DWASFiles\Sites\SITENAME\VirtualDirectory0\site

Unfortunately this causes an error:

Source and destination directories cannot be sub-directories of each other

This would be due to the fact the repository folder sits in the site folder aswell. If I change the deployment file to:

[config]
DEPLOYMENT_SOURCE = C:\DWASFiles\Sites\SITENAME\VirtualDirectory0\repo
DEPLOYMENT_TARGET = C:\DWASFiles\Sites\SITENAME\VirtualDirectory0\site

It runs without errors but it pushes nothing as the repo folder is empty, I guess if I could get Azure to put the files into \repo instead \site\repository everything would be fine.

Maybe I'm over complicating things and I'd really appreciate any advice. Worst case I can just push to the "wwwroot" folder and use a web.config to fix things.

Answer 1

This is not very well supported today, but you may be able to make it work by setting a couple things in the app settings:

SCM_REPOSITORY_PATH=..\repository
SCM_TARGET_PATH=..

This basically tells it to put the repo directly in VirtualDirectory0 (as opposed to VirtualDirectory0\site), and then to deploy to VirtualDirectory0\site (as opposed to VirtualDirectory0\site\wwwroot).

This assumes that your repo contains a folder named wwwroot.

Some info on these paths here