Vapor excluding directories question

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CMHWorks Reply #1, 11 years, 2 months ago

Has anyone been successful in following the instructions on how to exclude file and/or directories from a vapor transport package? I have followed the instructions but vapor fails silently with the following config.php file in the vapor directory:

```php
<?php
return array(
    'excludeFiles' => array(awstats,log,stats,templates,assets/videos),
    'excludeExtraTables' => array(),
    'excludeExtraTablePrefix' => array(),
);
```

This is exactly as the readme.md file describes but it fails. Without the config php it runs but includes a whole buch of stuff from my webroot I dont need or want in my export. I tired noth with and w/o the ```php tagging with the same result.

TIA

This question has been answered by sottwell. See the first response.

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sottwell Reply #2, 11 years, 2 months ago

I would presume that those array values would need to be surrounded with quote marks, as they are strings.

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CMHWorks Reply #3, 11 years, 2 months ago

Wow. What a numb nut! laugh

thx. Crawls in a nearby hole...

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bobwal Reply #4, 10 years, 8 months ago

I can't get this to work for some reason. I've tried a number of variations for the config.php file but it seems to be ignored. I've checked the vapor logs and vapor is still trying to pack the excluded files.

<?php
return array(
    'excludeFiles' => array('log','stats','lightroom'),
    'excludeExtraTables' => array(),
    'excludeExtraTablePrefix' => array(),
);

I'm stumped now, any ideas?

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bobwal Reply #5, 10 years, 8 months ago

Strange, I added the excluded files to vapor.php instead and it seems to be working now.

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rainbowtiger Reply #6, 10 years, 6 months ago

Same thing here. I can't get this to work, even if I put it in vapor.php instead. The code all looks like it should work, but it isn't.

Where exactly did you put it in vapor.php? I tried putting it at the top in the $vaporOptions definitions, and also tried adding the files down below into the $excludes array.

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