Contentment folder doesn't form itself when running on docking container

[eliranrefael]

Hey, thank you for your project, its very resourceful.
im using umbraco 10.3.2 with contentment 4.4 (not core), and for some unexplained reason, when i working with my project on a docker i cant see that contentment folder is formed under wwwroot/app_plugins and ofcourse i get ton of errors because of it.
when i run the project in other ways, like in IISExpress, the app_plugin is created and populated outside the wwwroot and everything working wonderfully.
i also have usync installed and it works fine on both envs...
any clues of why that could be happening?

thanks!

[leekelleher]

Hi @eliranrefael. As far as I'm aware, the App_Plugins/Contentment folder should be outside of the wwwroot.

I haven't used Docker, so I'm unsure what complexities that introduces.

With uSync, I do know that it uses the Razor Class Library approach to embed the web assets (e.g. the App_Plugins folder), which can later be deployed to inside the wwwroot folder, but Contentment doesn't follow the same pattern as that.

[eliranrefael]

thank you for your reply, would you recommend to include contentment folder in my source control and include it in my project?

[leekelleher]

From what I recall, when the web-app is compiled (whether locally or in a CI/CD build process) then the NuGet package should re-copy over the web asset files to the App_Plugin/Contentment target folder. Meaning that you shouldn't need them in your source control, but if you are experiencing issues, and adding them to your source control resolves that, then all good. 👍

[eliranrefael]

A little update,
its not releated to container or not, its a bug happening during the publish process, if the app_plugins does not exist from first place, it wont be copied to the publish folder, even if you enclude it in the csproj. further described here:
umbraco/Umbraco-CMS#12572

i think maybe its related to when the folder is created in the process, if anyone has suggestions but adding the folder to the source control i will be glad to hear!