CI job says successful but wwwroot remains empty

[slombardo]

I am using the following yml file:

name: Build and deploy ASP.NET app to Azure Web App

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - master
  workflow_dispatch:

jobs:
  build-and-deploy:
    runs-on: windows-latest

    steps:
      # Checkout the repository
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4

      # Install Visual Studio Build Tools with Web development components
      - name: 'Install Visual Studio Build Tools'
        run: |
          choco install visualstudio2019buildtools --package-parameters "--add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.WebBuildTools --includeRecommended --includeOptional" --ignore-checksums -y
        shell: powershell

      # Restore NuGet packages
      - name: 'Restore NuGet packages'
        run: |
          nuget restore "My.sln"
        shell: powershell

      # Build and publish the project
      - name: 'Build and publish the project'
        run: |
          $msbuild = 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\BuildTools\MSBuild\Current\Bin\MSBuild.exe'
          & $msbuild "MyProject/MyProject.csproj" `
            /p:Configuration=Release `
            /t:Package /p:PackageTempRootDir=..\publish
        shell: powershell

      # look for the publish output folder - works
      - name: 'List directories to find publish output'
        run: |
          Get-ChildItem -Path "publish/PackageTmp" -Directory
        shell: powershell

      # This works as expected
      - name: Upload Artifact 
        uses: actions/[email protected]
        with:
          name: published_webapp
          path: './publish/PackageTmp'

      # Deploy to Azure Web App using publish profile - says successful but wwwroot is empty
      - name: 'Deploy to Azure Web App'
        uses: azure/webapps-deploy@v3
        with:
          app-name: 'MySiteName'
          publish-profile: ${{ secrets.AZURE_WEBAPP_PUBLISH_PROFILE }}
          package: '.'
          # I've also tried:
          # package: './publish'
          # package: './[project dir]'

Yet no matter what I do I wwwroot remains empty. Logs all say it was successfully deployed with no errors

[slombardo]

Here is the log of the deploy, and it says everything is ok, but still no files:

2024-10-08T16:24:17.3186593Z,Updating submodules.,30d95f4b-e231-4b28-a0e6-40b87ae0334f,0
2024-10-08T16:24:17.3627094Z,Preparing deployment for commit id '3e7b11f3ad'.,6bfae296-0974-4633-98e3-b48a8196ffe9,0
2024-10-08T16:24:17.5345858Z,Running build. Project type: OneDeploy,73f660b7-5faa-4a75-8aac-69be84d9a555,0
2024-10-08T16:24:17.6296785Z,Copying the manifest,ac4f49aa-4524-44cd-9a06-660427c3a010,0
2024-10-08T16:24:17.7845909Z,Clean deploying to C:\home\site\wwwroot,7f0f88dd-baed-4d0a-a63e-988bc1dce8d6,0
2024-10-08T16:24:17.9105846Z,Generating deployment script.,40677e26-92a2-4448-bcbf-6e6af647b371,0
	2024-10-08T16:24:17.9564691Z,Using cached version of deployment script (command: 'azure -y --no-dot-deployment -r "C:\local\Temp\zipdeploy\extracted" -o "C:\home\site\deployments\tools" --basic --sitePath "C:\local\Temp\zipdeploy\extracted\MyProject\MyProject.csproj"').,,0
2024-10-08T16:24:18.0033442Z,Running deployment command...,a71a2450-69f5-4182-ab46-81dc098e7493,0
	2024-10-08T16:24:18.0033442Z,Command: "C:\home\site\deployments\tools\deploy.cmd",,0
	2024-10-08T16:24:18.7727275Z,Handling Basic Web Site deployment.,,0
	2024-10-08T16:24:19.2727380Z,Creating app_offline.htm,,0
	2024-10-08T16:24:19.3027378Z,KuduSync.NET from: 'C:\local\Temp\zipdeploy\extracted\MyProject\MyProject.csproj' to: 'C:\home\site\wwwroot',,0
	2024-10-08T16:24:19.3327388Z,Deleting app_offline.htm,,0
	2024-10-08T16:24:19.3827403Z,Finished successfully.,,0
2024-10-08T16:24:19.4727440Z,Build completed succesfully.,433bf05a-4714-4044-bee0-bf042910752c,0
2024-10-08T16:24:19.6127420Z,Running post deployment command(s)...,d40f7fd2-e5c4-48fb-bd02-7cd7709e2c8d,0
2024-10-08T16:24:19.9565022Z,Requesting site restart,1bbb288c-9528-43e5-95fa-bec7c5ad0eb1,0
2024-10-08T16:24:20.0346279Z,Requesting site restart. Attempt #1,231fa49d-a40c-4402-801c-739015217ed8,0
2024-10-08T16:24:20.4721346Z,Successfully requested a restart. Attempt #1,e89a0409-55a8-4830-a5c1-496f9d3aa4a5,0
2024-10-08T16:24:20.5346370Z,Deployment successful.,e5542a82-94cf-45f1-b359-3038c4a7352d,0