App Directory Location: '/app' is invalid. Could not detect this directory. Please verify your workflow reflects your repository structure.

[jennyxchengsea]

I've tried to deploy the static web app via github, and I received this error.

App Directory Location: '/app' is invalid. Could not detect this directory. Please verify your workflow reflects your repository structure.

For further information, please visit the Azure Static Web Apps documentation at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/static-web-apps/ If you believe this behavior is unexpected, please raise a GitHub issue at https://github.com/azure/static-web-apps/issues/ Exiting

I believe it has something to do with setting on repositoryToken and appLocation

How do I find these info via my github repository?

[riverar]

Hi @jennyxchengsea, after binding your GitHub repository to Static Web Apps, you should have a GitHub Actions workflow defined at .github/workflows/xxxxx.yaml.

Within the file, app_location points to your web app sources live and api_location points to where your web app api sources live. If your app_location points to a folder with some static html/css, and no special build steps are needed, you can skip the build step completely (by adding skip_app_build: true right below that line).

More details can be found in the documentation.

[JoCa96]

I had the same issue when using the Azure DevOps Task AzureStaticWebApp@0. You can fix the issue there by using the undocumented cwd (current working directory) input parameter:

- task: AzureStaticWebApp@0
     inputs:
       cwd: $(Pipeline.Workspace)/${{parameters.artifact}}
       app_location: ${{parameters.distDirectory}}
       azure_static_web_apps_api_token: ${{parameters.azureStaticWebAppsApiToken}}

[svdHero]

@JoCa96 How did you find out about the cwd input parameter? How likely is it to be removed in future versions?

[anthonychu]

cwd should appear in the Azure DevOps UX if you use it to edit your tasks.

We missed adding it to the docs. We'll work on that.