CI/CD: symlink not created resulting in CD not working anymore

[kulisse]

Sometimes a continuous delivery github action will fail during "create symlink" step with the error below:

Run sudo ln -s /var/www/shared/storage /var/www/caravel/backend -f
ln: /var/www/caravel/backend/public/uploads: cannot overwrite directory
Error: Process completed with exit code 1.

Apparently this is because sometimes the symlink is not created and laravel create a directory automatically. When this happens, you can't create a symlink anymore.

The workaround is to go on the server in /var/www/caravel/backend/public/uploads and move everything inside this folder to /var/www/shared and then delete the uploads folder.

[kulisse]

sudo mv /var/www/caravel/backend/public/uploads/users/* /var/www/shared/uploads/users/
sudo mv /var/www/caravel/backend/public/uploads/groups/* /var/www/shared/uploads/groups/
sudo rm -r uploads/