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Docs / Zero-downtime deployment issues / Zero-downtime deployment issues

Last updated on 13th October 2020

Zero-downtime deployment issues

Troubleshoot issues relating to zero-downtime deployments.

  • An error occurred when copying previous release
  • Error communicating with your server: failure
  • Site issues when using zero-downtime deployments with Nginx
  • Why isn't my shared directory xyz being symlinked but all the files within it are?
  • My release folder is not being symlinked correctly
  • Connection error during "Copying cache files to release" step

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