how do I tell astro to put its files in a child directory?

[granite star]

I have run the astro initiatilzation setup in an existing repository and currently have it setup so that Astro is inside a child folder, I moved all the relevant package.json/script commands into the root folder, but whenever I run npm run build it seems to be generating an env.d.ts in a folder that's not the astro folder?

For clarity, this is my current repo structure, with annotated notes explaining my issue:

├── LICENSE
├── README.md
├── package-lock.json
├── package.json
├── panel <--- this is the astro folder
│   ├── README.md
│   ├── astro.config.mjs
│   ├── public
│   │   └── favicon.svg
│   ├── src
│   │   ├── components
│   │   │   └── Card.astro
│   │   ├── env.d.ts
│   │   ├── layouts
│   │   │   └── Layout.astro
│   │   └── pages
│   │       └── index.astro
│   └── tsconfig.json
├── src <--- this is a separate thing
│   ├── encrypt.ts
│   ├── env.d.ts <--- why is this here?
│   └── server.ts
└── tsconfig.json

Should I just install astro manually instead of using the cli tool? I'm not sure how I can get it to stop putting that env.d.ts in the wrong folder... I took a look at https://astro.build/config but I don't think that will help solve this problem?

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[hot yew]

I'm going to assume astro builds up a relative path based on package.json? In which case IDK js too well but you could probably have a package.json in that folder and also for the src (encrypt.ts?) folder

[granite star]

I did have a package.json in the original panel folder (that Astro generated) but I moved everything to the parent package.json and then deleted it

[shut gyro]

perhaps put the proper project root inside astro.config.mjs using this:

[granite star]

I had tried that and it didn't seem to solve my problem either, though I'm not sure if it's because I just don't understand what the "project root" is. I'm not sure if it's referring to the panel/ directory or if it's referring to the parent folder of the entire project. I have this in my astro.config.mjs: ```mjs
import { defineConfig } from 'astro/config';

// https://astro.build/config
export default defineConfig({
root: './panel',
srcDir: './panel/src'
});

[shut gyro]

what directory are you running the build command from

the same as the package.json?

[granite star]

yes, the parent folder is called bot-server\ and the astro folder is located at bot-server\panel - I'm running the commands while in bot-server\

I notice this while running the build script 09:18:38 PM [astro] Missing pages directory: src/pages so it seems like it's just using the bot-server/src directory no matter what instead of bot-server/panel/src which is what had me confused

[shut gyro]

import { defineConfig } from 'astro/config';

// https://astro.build/config
export default defineConfig({
    root: './panel',
    srcDir: './src'
});

maybe? haha

[granite star]

still nope I event tried doing an absolute path and it's still putting em in the wrong src folder

okay so I found out where in the astro node module the settings are being loaded, and it looks like the config file isn't actually loading at all? ```root: URL {
href: 'file:///home/<name>/dev/digittron-server/',
origin: 'null',
protocol: 'file:',
username: '',
password: '',
host: '',
hostname: '',
port: '',
pathname: '/home/<name>/dev/digittron-server/',
search: '',
searchParams: URLSearchParams {},
hash: ''
},
srcDir: URL {
href: 'file:///home/<name>/dev/digittron-server/src/',
origin: 'null',
protocol: 'file:',
username: '',
password: '',
host: '',
hostname: '',
port: '',
pathname: '/home/<name>/dev/digittron-server/src/',
search: '',
searchParams: URLSearchParams {},
hash: ''
}

ah, I got it. Looks like the config file must be in the project root, otherwise you have to specify the location of the config file yourself in the cli command.