Exclude App_Data folder from publishing

[DavidStania]

Hey all,

I made a lot of try's to exclude the App_Data folder from the publishing process. I can't find any solution how to exclude them. OrchardCode used this folder for the tenant management. If I have a lot of tenants on my webserver eg. azure, with the next publishing all data and the tenants.json file will be overwriten and this destroys my page.

It would be greate, if someone have a good idea how to and the solution would be published in the documentation.

Best regards
David

[Skrypt]

Look at the .csproj publishing exclude rules. It is documented by Microsoft.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/web-forms/overview/deployment/advanced-enterprise-web-deployment/excluding-files-and-folders-from-deployment

[Skrypt]

Else you can alternatively use Azure Storage for your tenant configs. This is documented.

[DavidStania]

The Azure Storage is a good alternative, you are right. Tank you.

The exclude rules like documented by Microsoft is - I belive - not working with .Net Core Applications. I tryed them out with out success.

[DavidStania]

Done it with Azure Storage. Thank you!!

[jtkech]

@DavidStania

Just for info for another possible solution in OrchardCore, look at #4402.

So in your case try to add the following property in your app project file

<PropertyGroup>
   ...
  <DefaultItemExcludes>$(DefaultItemExcludes);App_Data\**</DefaultItemExcludes>
</PropertyGroup>

[DavidStania]

Incredible! It is working. Seriously, I was looking since a long time for this solution.