How to deploy without changing the contents of a folder on the server?

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I’m new to the Nodejs and Git world, I’m trying to develop from a system where users upload images.

Every time I do deploy from the app, users pictures are deleted from folder public/uploads/

How should I proceed so that people’s files are not deleted in this case? I tried using . gitignore in uploads folder, but it didn’t help.

I thought of hosting the images on a server separate from the server where the app is, but only if there is no other way.

I need a way to keep the folder public/uploads/ without being changed when making any deploy.

Note: The site is in Nodejs. The deploy is done using Git on the Openshift server.

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  • Are you recording the images inside your application directory? Of course, if you deploy them they will disappear because you are overwriting. To solve, try using a directory outside your application, for example: /var/uploads, etc....

  • OK, solved! In Openshift, there is a space for file storage /app-root/data/ . You can access it via sftp by Filezilla. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23150714/upload-file-on-openshift Valeu, Wakim; Caputo!

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The upload folder should be removed from the repository and inserted into . gitignore (git ignore does not work if the file is already in the repository)

public/uploads/*

After removing vc creates an empty file (I usually call it Empty). This file must be forcefully inserted into the repository. 

git add -f public/uploads/empty

With this only this file in the sera trackeado folder. git will create the folder but will not touch the files on the server.

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