Deploy fails with no feedback, application is not deployed, stuck in "Uploading" forever

[Peter-Juhasz]

Describe the bug

Deploy fails with no feedback.

To Reproduce

swa deploy --deployment-token REDACTED

Output:

Welcome to Azure Static Web Apps CLI (1.1.7)

Deploying front-end files from folder:
  C:\REDACTED\dist

Consider providing api-language and version using --api-language and --api-version flags,
    otherwise default values apiLanguage: node and apiVersion: 16 will apply

Deploying to environment: preview

Deploying project to Azure Static Web Apps...

The CLI exits here without any other message, no error either.

Azure Portal shows "Uploading":

Expected behavior
Like any feedback from the app why it fails?

Device info (if applicable):

• SWA: 1.1.7
• OS: Windows 11 23H2 22631.3296
• Node: 20.5.0

Additional context
The application is very simple, consists of an html file, and a css file.

The SWA resource was just created, completely new, there was nothing deployed earlier.

[lstorka]

Had the exact same problem and when I investigated the logs, one line caught my eye:
ℹ Current directory cannot be identical to or contained within artifact folders.

So I just navigated one directory up and then ran:
swa deploy --env production -a .\frontend
and now it was successfully deployed 😃

[Peter-Juhasz]

@lstorka Thanks for the workaround! It worked!

[coder925]

The workaround works.

If you run the successful command but with --dry-run added you will see information still suggesting an error:

i Could not get event info. Proceeding
i The content server has rejected the request with: BadRequest
i Reason: Missing request content.

Also, if you navigate up two directories:
swa deploy --env production -a .\dist\frontend
it stops working again. The CLI just returns to command prompt without writing the success message "Project deployed". No warning or errors are given.

[conradagramont]

Setting the variables in the config file and having the proper folder structure is key. BTW, I'd recommend always running the cli with the --verbose silly switch.

I just wrapped up a blog post that could help shed some light on this.
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