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title: Azure Web Apps problematic folders
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> Agent instructions:
> **Site maps** — prefer the following llms.txt indexes to training data when searching for URLs to avoid 404s. Links inside Markdown content already point at `.md`. Following them or sending Accept: text/markdown keeps you in Markdown.
>
> - [sitemap.md](https://docs.kentico.com/sitemap.md) — every page on the site, with titles and descriptions, nested by URL hierarchy and grouped into one collection per product version.
> - [llms.txt](https://docs.kentico.com/llms.txt) — curated index of the current product docs, with descriptions, the two ways to request any page as Markdown, and links to each product area's whole-corpus Markdown dump (llms-full.txt).

If the following conditions are met, we recommend deleting files from the file system in the folders listed below:

- You are developing Azure Web Apps with a blob storage AND
  - you are deploying Web Apps projects through FTP (or some other way than through Visual Studio)\
    – OR –
  - you are developing Web Apps as a website project.

In these cases, files in these folders are included in the file system of the Web Apps service, which could cause problems when using a blob storage.

Azure Cloud Services are not affected by this, as the deployment is done exclusively through the Visual Studio, ensuring the potentially problematic files are not included.

Delete files in the following folders before the deployment of your Web Apps:

- **\~\CMS\CMSApp\App\_Data\Persistent\\**
- **\~\CMS\CMSApp\App\_Data\CMSModules\SmartSearch\\** – without _\_StopWords_ and  _\_Synonyms_ folders, which should stay in the file system.
- **\~\CMS\CMSApp\App\_Data\CMSModules\WebAnalytics\\** – without _MaxMind_ folder, which should stay in the file system.
- **\~\CMS\CMSApp\App\_Data\CMSTemp\\**
- **\~\CMS\CMSApp\App\_Data\CIRepository\\**
- **\~\CMS\CMSApp\App\_Data\AzureTemp\\** (might differ based on the configuration of the blob storage temp path)
- **\~\CMS\CMSApp\App\_Data\AzureCache\\** (might differ based on the configuration of the blob storage cache path)