Error in production, but not in local

[antoine3000]

When I try to publish my site in production, I get this error: str_starts_with(): Argument #1 ($haystack) must be of type string, bool given

from this file, line 51: /site/plugins/kirby-vite/packages/kirby-vite/Vite.php

 if (str_starts_with($fullPath, $rootPath)) {
    return ltrim(substr($fullPath, strlen($rootPath)), DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR);
  }

Any idea what it could be?

[arnoson]

Can you share your setup with a minimal repository? There used to be a similar issue but I forgot what caused it 🙈

[arnoson]

Ah I found it: maybe issue #40 can help you

[antoine3000]

Thanks for taking a look. I realised the website is looking for /site/config/vite.config.php but that file is in the .gitignore. And the error I posted above is caused when I stop ignoring that file and pushing it to the server. I also realised I can't use Node on my remote server, so no npm install available there. I guess that's the problem? If so, any idea how to bypass it?

[arnoson]

The file is git ignored on purpose, because it is auto-generated by the kirby-vite plugin. I don't like to commit any files that are auto-generated or installed, like /node_modules and composer's /vendor because you can re-create these files any time, so there is no need for them to end up in git. But of course you have to upload these files to your server.

I don't know how you deploy, but if you use git, you have to run npm install, npm run build and composer install on the server. If you can't use node then yes, you have to remove the auto-generated files from .gitignore. For simple websites I also use a cheap shared hosting webspace without node and to deploy these website I use rsync or lftp. This way I can still ignore all auto-generated files from git, but I upload them to the server never the less. I also made a simple tool to help with lftp: very-simple-deploy, I you have ssh access you could also use rploy. Here is an example setup of how I use my lftp tool with Kirby and Vite :)

If you wan't to use git, it would be enough the un-ignore everything composer-related (/vendor, /kirby, /site/plugins), the /site/config/vite.config.php and the outDir from vite (/dist, or /public/dist depending on your setup). You don't have to un-ignore /node_modules because they are bundled away with Vite.

[antoine3000]

amazing, many thanks for your reply!

[arnoson]

Glad I could help :) I'll close this issue, but add another one as a reminder to add a better error message, something like vite.config.php not found instead of the cryptic error you got!

[antoine3000]

Fantastic, thank you for your work! For the record, I did as you said for the Git deployment, and it works just fine.