Clearing Static Site Cache

[danielle]

@Sky: Hello! I am running into issue when I deploy my static website.

If deploy a directory like /somedir/ and then during my next commit/deploy I remove that directory from build, I can still see/access this directory on the server under <http://mydomain.com/somedir/|mydomain.com/somedir/>.
I guess this happens because Render does not check the new tree in the build cleaning up the old dir/files that are removed, instead, just put what is there, override files that are changed but does not remove the old dir/files.

How can I force Render to always check the dir/file changes and only deploy what is in the current build?
Essentially, what I would need is some sort of rm -rf * on Render to wipe out whatever files Render has before the new build arrives.

[danielle]

You should be able to clear out these unwanted files by manually redeploying your service with the Clear build cache & deploy option. This can be found by selecting the dropdown on the right of the Manual Deploy button, as shown below:

Just let us know if anything still isn’t cleared out after redeploying this way, and we’ll take a closer look.

[iamriel]

Hi, I just started switching from Heroku and encountered a really frustrating problem about this cache issue. I have already removed the line that is causing the issue but still the build process is reading the old file.

The error is caused by whitenoise.

May 2 12:41:33 AM  The CSS file 'css/vendor.min.css' references a file which could not be found:
May 2 12:41:33 AM    css/"images/ui-icons_555555_256x240.png"
May 2 12:41:33 AM  

I even tried to create a new web service but still no luck. Of course I tried your suggestion as well several times but still not working. Please let me know if I missed anything.
Thanks

web service name: ezbetgames