Support for static files?

[HowardvanRooijen]

Hi,

I have an existing static site (just .html files) which is currently deployed to netlify.

What configuration do you have to use to just deploy these files? At the moment the build is failing with the error Error: Could not detect the language from repo.

Many thanks!

Howard

[qianz2]

Hi Howard,

Thanks for bring up the issue. Currently, we are working on supporting static websites. We'll update the release when the static webs detection and builds are supported by Oryx.

Stella

[kichalla]

cc @miwebst

[apalmer]

@HowardvanRooijen I was able to get a site that was 100% static html, css, and javascript to deploy. It was definitely a workaround style approach but it did work:

1. remove everything from my repository except

• git related files (.gitignore)
• .github directory
• directory (i called mines 'pregen') containing html, css, js, gifs, etc

2. in the .github/azure-static-web-apps-*.yml file set the app_location to your html directory (I called mines 'pregen')

This worked for deploying truly static web site with no real build process to Azure Static Web Apps

[kichalla]

@qianz2 Please check with AppService folks about their purely static files image.

[miwebst]

@kichalla I think the main thing that is confusing here is that Oryx emits an error about detection. As discussed we probably want to have an option to not emit that error and just use the custom status code for saying detection failed. Static Web Apps assumes static content when we see that error code.