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Appwrite Sites deployment fails because builder creates code.sqfs while sidecar requires code.tar.gz

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Jonathan Adcox
8 Jul, 2026, 23:03

Appwrite Cloud Sites deployments are failing consistently for both GitHub and manual deployments.

The build command completes successfully and packaging also completes successfully. Open Runtimes automatically creates:

/mnt/code/code.sqfs

Immediately afterward, the Appwrite build sidecar fails with:

[sidecar:build] Build archive was not created at /mnt/code/code.tar.gz

Troubleshooting completed:

  1. Existing Appwrite Site failed from GitHub.
  2. Existing Appwrite Site failed using a valid manually uploaded code.tar.gz.
  3. A completely new Appwrite Site was created and connected to the same GitHub repository.
  4. The new Site failed with the identical code.sqfs / code.tar.gz mismatch.
  5. The static HTML/CSS build itself completes successfully.
  6. The existing active deployment remains online, but no new deployment can activate.

This appears to be an Appwrite Cloud build-worker or sidecar artifact-format mismatch.

Please investigate the Sites build pipeline for this project/region.

Repository: blayderunner123/adcox-ai-site

Branch: main

New Site ID: 6a4ed0140035502cbb91

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Appwrite Sites deployment fails due to builder creating code.sqfs while sidecar requires code.tar.gz. The issue persists for both GitHub and manual deployments. Troubleshooting involved trying a new site and connecting to the same GitHub repository, but the problem persisted. This seems to be an Appwrite Cloud build-worker or sidecar artifact-format mismatch. Action required: investigate the Sites build pipeline for the project/region.
SorryLad2
8 Jul, 2026, 23:28

yep same

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