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Jeff Padgett
Jeff Padgett

Reputation: 2549

How do I use CLI to deploy Security Rules for firestore? Error: Cannot understand what targets to deploy

I can't make the CLI firebase deploy rules work.

I have a file called security.rules at the root level of my firebase project directory.

In CLI, I type: 

firebase deploy --only firestore:rules

Then I get this response in the CLI:

Error: Cannot understand what targets to deploy. Check that you specified valid targets if you used the --only or --except flag. Otherwise, check your firebase.json to ensure that your project is initialized for the desired features.

What I tried:

I tried going into my firebase.json and adding the rules option.

Before:

{
  "functions": {
    "predeploy": [
      //"npm --prefix \"$RESOURCE_DIR\" run lint"
    ],
    "source": "functions"
  }

}

After:

{
  "functions": {
    "predeploy": [
      //"npm --prefix \"$RESOURCE_DIR\" run lint"
    ],
    "source": "functions"
  },
"rules": "security.rules"

}

And I got the same problem... Any ideas?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 970

Answers (1)

Doug Stevenson
Doug Stevenson

Reputation: 317828

The command is this:

firebase deploy --only firestore

Your firebase.json file should have a firestore key at the top level, and it may contain two child properties. When you initialize a new project and activate Firestore, the firestore key will be populated like this by default:

"firestore": {
  "rules": "firestore.rules",
  "indexes": "firestore.indexes.json"
}

You can modify it if you want to use different file names.

Read the documentation for firebase.json for more detailed information.

Upvotes: 4

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