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Self-hosted runners action-runner folder #25972
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I setup a self-hosted runner on a Windows 19 box and I’d like to use it for production deployment. (hopefully I’m using it properly) I have my YML setup so that when a push goes into master, it runs a few cmds including an npm build and an a PM2 restart. What I don’t understand is that my actions and code run within a new action-runner folder:
But my application is being served from another directory:
How to do I get my action changes to take place or reflect in the served location, not the _work directory? |
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The default working directory of your workflow when using your self-hosted runner is |
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Very well explained. Thanks. How will this be specified using the default runners [windows-latest or ubuntu-latest]? Meaning, my applications .csproj file is located as: C:\actions-runner_work\your-repo-name\your-repo-name\appweb\myappweb => myappweb.csproj. How will default runner find this path and run the dotnet build? |
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Just a short remark, because a faced it myself. The |
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ahh, thank you, I’ll give this a try |
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Hi Yanjingzhu, thanks for your help. I have it working at the proper working-directory now, but my entire application is also still in the default directory… Any idea if I can remove that?
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Sorry for the delay response. Actions/checkout action checks-out your repository under |
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The default working directory of your workflow when using your self-hosted runner is
C:\actions-runner\_work\your-repo-name\your-repo-name. If you are using run scripts step, using theworking-directorykeyword, you can specify the working directory of where to run the command.