Fixed build.json doesn't include .htaccess files

[Siropu]

Affected version

2.0.1

When the zip is built, it ignores .htaccess files in the additional_files directories.

 

[Chris D]

That’s semi intentional but I appreciate why it might be unexpected especially if you’ve explicitly asked for them to be included. We’ll look at changes here.

As a workaround for now, you can probably use exec commands in build.json to manually copy them in.

 

[Siropu]

I've tried using the cp command with absolute and relative paths and nothing works for me.

 

[Chris D]

Just to be clear the paths are relative to the add on root directory IIRC and you’d be looking to place them relative to the _build directory (a temporary directory where the built files are staged).

Something like this should work:

{
    exec: [
        'cp /full/path/to/.htaccess /full/path/to/addonroot/_build/upload/path/to/.htaccess'
    ]
}

 

[Siropu]

It doesn't work. I can copy other files but not htaccess files.

 

[Chris D]

It’s quite possibly still stripping them out. I guess the order of the steps is not quite what I remembered. We’ll take a look and try to sort it for the next release.

 

[Kier]

So I tracked it down, through four levels of filtering and some other file name handling bugs along the way. And now you can include .htaccess files in your releases.