External plugin not uploading after compressing myself

[Sevimuelli]

Hi

I wanted to change some settings on a plugin before uploading. But I noticed that when I compress the plugin myself, it won't upload. For testing, I tried the Endstop plugin. I decompressed it and compressed it again without changing anything. I think it uploads it but the window for the plugin installation doesn't show up. I'm using a Mac and thought maybe there is a problem with that and tried it with Linux as well but no success.

I am sure it is just a stupid mistake from my side but I can't figure it out. It's like it can't find the plugin.json file i guess. Do I need some special argument when compressing the folder? In the documentation it only says compressing, nothing special about it.

Any help is appreciated.
Many thanks,
Sevi

[chrishamm]

@Sevimuelli Plugin ZIPs require plugin.json to be present at the root of the ZIP file. Did you perhaps compress the full directory messing up the file structure?

[Sevimuelli]

@chrishamm Ok i figured out the problem. When i have the folder with all the required files in it, like dsf, sd and plugin.json for example, I need to compress the files inside the folder directly and not the folder itself. Don't know, it looks the same when you decompress it and everything but i guess there's a difference. Hope that makes sense. Anyway, thanks for your help. You can close this topic now.