craft clear-caches/cp-resources erases my entire web/assets directory (yikes!)

[jaytavares]

Description

I added craft clear-caches/all to my deploy script and discovered that all my site assets got wiped out. After some investigation, I discovered that the offending command is craft clear-caches/cp-resources. I can clear the Control Panel resources from the Utilities admin menu without issue; however, if I run the CLI command to clear the Control Panel resources, my web/assets folder is completely emptied.

Steps to reproduce

1. Using a throw away copy of a craft site with the below versions...
2. Review contents of web/assets directory - verify contents exist
3. Run craft clear-caches/all or craft clear-caches/cp-resources
4. Look at contents of web/assets directory - note that all contents are now gone

Additional info

• Craft version: Craft Pro 3.1.0
• PHP version: 7.0.2
• Database driver & version: MySQL 5.7.10
• Plugins & versions:

GeoMate - v1.0.2
Imager - v2.1.4 <-- all contents of my web/assets folder came from this plugin--could it be the cause?
Redactor - 2.1.7
Smart Map - 3.2.1
Videos - 2.0.4

[brandonkelly]

Thanks for reporting this. Believe it's because your resourceBasePath config setting is set to something that begins with @webroot and Craft wasn’t sure how to resolve that for console requests.

[jaytavares]

Thanks Brandon. I think you are right. I don't set my resourceBasePath anywhere in my code, but I do see that it seems to default to @webroot/cpresources in craftcms/cms/src/config/GeneralConfig.php.

[brandonkelly]

Right, and Craft can be a little unpredictable when resolving @webroot for console requests. So as of the next release it will just not even try to clear CP resource files if that setting begins with @webroot.

[jaytavares]

Gotcha. Thanks again for addressing this so quickly.