Capistrano deploy_symlink fails?

Regardless, the issue you have is that /var/www/app_name/current should not be a directory - it should be a symlink to the current release within /var/www/app_name/releases/. The failure is caused when capistrano has finished creating the new release folder within /var/www/app_name/releases/, and is trying to symlink /var/www/app_name/current to it. You might be able to fix your issues by renaming /var/www/app_name/current (so you have a backup if things go wrong), and creating a symlink from /var/www/app_name/current to the most recent release within /var/www/app_name/releases/, and then doing a cap deploy.

(Delete your backup of current if this works). As far as best practice goes whatever you do, do not use root. Instead, set up a user (or use an existing user) that has only permissions to the required directories (didn't read your scripts closely, but probably just /var/www/app_name.

If there's something I've missed, leave a comment and let me know. – SamStephens Sep 30 '10 at 0:38.

To deploy a new release you should invoke cap deploy or cap deploy:migrations, not cap deploy:update.

I also have had such errors. A totally normal task of updating source code and restarting the server always seems to have problems at various points of the simple script. Sometimes it complains that a hash value at github doesn't match some expected value, sometimes it won't update a directory because it already exists, but mostly with it wanting to create things that exist.Is there no way to force Capistrano and thus the shell commands to just DO IT?

I would at least appreciate it asking me what it should do should it encounter this type of error instead of just failing and rolling back. Especially when it's a simple file operation. I end up having to delete things manually on the server so that the Capistrano script will run without failing.

This is obviously not the way forward.

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