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I’m not very familiar with PowerShell, but in the Linux command line shell, I’ve noticed that if you give a path for compression, it will include all folders inside, so your archive would include the folders “web” and “AKnightEternal”.

Could you try before the line with “Compress-Archive” to do:

cd web\AKnightEternal

And then on the “Compress-Archive” change the “-Path” to:

Compress-Archive -Path “.” -DestinationPath AKE-web-$timestamp.zip

This is just a guess, to see if that would work. You did mention that if you view both archives from the windows explorer they are both the same, but do they contain the same amount of folders? If that’s the issue, it would explain why Itch can’t detect the “index.html” file (since it’s not in the root folder) and it also explains why they have slightly different size.

Hope that was the issue.

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Aezart4 years ago

Both my PowerShell and Windows Explorer builds have "AKnightEternal" as the top-level folder inside the archive, and the path to the index.html file is the same in both - AKnightEternal\www\index.html. Itch just can't find it there in the PowerShell version for some reason.

I'll give the changes you suggested a try when I get a chance, although I may wait until the game jam I've submitted this to is finished with judging since I've already got the Windows Explorer version of the zip uploaded and working.

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Afloof.dev4 years ago

Sounds good, that’s the only thing I could think off unfortunately.

I always thought that the index file is meant to be in the root folder, but you mentioned it’s inside the “www” folder, which is inside the archive. It’s interesting that Itch can detect that when built from the windows explorer.

Anyway, I would suggest you investigate after the Jam is over, no reason to add extra problems when there’s a (I assume) tight deadline.

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