Redefining an Azure Static Web App

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Today’s burning question… Can I easily “redefine” an Azure Static Web App?

So, the source code for my password-protected Wieting-Guild-Pages is broken and I can’t update the stale old content that’s currently there. It’s a long story. Fortunately, I’ve rebuilt that code in a new GitHub repo and have it working again. Yay!

Now, can I take the deployment parts of the old/broken repo and apply them to the new repo and make it all work again?

Worth a Try

So, I started this experiment by visiting the old project, https://github.com/SummittDweller/wieting-guild-pages, and copying the https://github.com/SummittDweller/wieting-guild-pages/blob/main/.github/workflows/azure-static-web-apps-lemon-mushroom-087d78210.yml file found there. That GitHub workflow file contains nearly all the information required to deploy the old site, maybe it will work for the new site too? Nope, at least not right out of the box.

I attched the .yml file to my new project by placing an unmodified copy of it in the new project’s .github/workflows directory. Then when I committed the change and pushed it to GitHub the workflow kicked in automatically. Ultimately it looks like the “build” portion of the process worked as-expected, but the “deployment” failed with these messages:

DeploymentId: 86ab60d0-3abf-429c-9c17-405068c1ebcf

deployment_token was not provided.
The deployment_token is required for deploying content. If you'd like to continue the run without deployment, add the configuration skip_deploy_on_missing_secrets set to true in your workflow file
An unknown exception has occurred

For further information, please visit the Azure Static Web Apps documentation at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/static-web-apps/
If you believe this behavior is unexpected, please raise a GitHub issue at https://github.com/azure/static-web-apps/issues/
Exiting

Something is Missing

Since I’m not absolutely sure what’s missing, and I don’t know how to replace it even if I was sure of what it is, I’m going to just create a new instance of this web app following the guidance, yet again, in Quickstart: Build your first static web app.