Site Assets = ONLY looks at files under /Portals/{ID} - where {ID} is the id of the current portal 0 for single-portal sites

Module Installs = Resource component types will unzip to the location specified in the "BasePath" Typically /DesktopModules/{ModuleName}

When you install a module, the log will show you every single file extracted and the destination of the file.

Site Assets is working as expected. The issue there is that in the past we could FTP in files into /Portals/0/SomeAssetFolder and that would work fine, but now it doesn't. Inconvenient, but not critical unless it's an indicator of files being uploaded via FTP elsewhere being ignored - especially unpacking the upgrade zip into the website. The site's been around five years and we've only seem this behavior since this August.

I did a re-install of the latest module we deployed, the one that is working thanks to workarounds but doesn't appear in DesktopModules. The Package Installation Report is identical to installing the module on my localhost test instance, which does unpack it into DesktopModules.

It has an entry under Installed Extensions with all relevant information, and there is nothing new in the admin log. Is there a log elsewhere I can check for those destinations? Portals/_default/Logs wasn't helpful either.

What does the log show for the processing of the resource file?

I'm assuming you mean the Package Installation Report. Here's the dump - I can't bold anything but I've spaced it out:

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StartJob Starting Installation
Info Starting Installation - DPDashModule
Info Starting Installation - Script
Info Begin Sql execution
Info Creating backup of previous version - Providers\DataProviders\SqlDataProvider\Uninstall.SqlDataProvider
Info Created - Providers\DataProviders\SqlDataProvider\Uninstall.SqlDataProvider
Info Finished Sql execution
Info Component installed successfully - Script

Info Starting Installation - ResourceFile
Info Expanding Resource file

Info Creating backup of previous version - Documentation\Documentation.css
Info Created - Documentation/Documentation.css
Info Creating backup of previous version - Documentation\Documentation.html
Info Created - Documentation/Documentation.html
Info Creating backup of previous version - Controls\PASADPDash.ascx
Info Created - Controls/PASADPDash.ascx
Info Creating backup of previous version - Scripts\DPDash.js
Info Created - Scripts/DPDash.js
Info Creating backup of previous version - App_LocalResources\Edit.ascx.resx
Info Created - App_LocalResources/Edit.ascx.resx
Info Creating backup of previous version - App_LocalResources\Settings.ascx.resx
Info Created - App_LocalResources/Settings.ascx.resx
Info Creating backup of previous version - App_LocalResources\View.ascx.resx
Info Created - App_LocalResources/View.ascx.resx
Info Creating backup of previous version - Edit.ascx
Info Created - Edit.ascx
Info Creating backup of previous version - License.txt
Info Created - License.txt
Info Creating backup of previous version - module.css
Info Created - module.css
Info Creating backup of previous version - ReleaseNotes.txt
Info Created - ReleaseNotes.txt
Info Creating backup of previous version - Settings.ascx
Info Created - Settings.ascx
Info Creating backup of previous version - View.ascx
Info Created - View.ascx

Info Resource Files created
Info Component installed successfully - ResourceFile

Info Starting Installation - Module
Info Module registered successfully - DPDashModule
Info Component installed successfully - Module
Info Starting Installation - Assembly
Info Assembly already registered - bin\DPDashModule.dll
Info Creating backup of previous version - bin\DPDashModule.dll
Info Created - bin\DPDashModule.dll
Info Component installed successfully - Assembly
Info Installation committed
Info Installation successful. - DPDashModule
Info Deleted temporary install folder
EndJob Installation successful.

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Posted By hbilbrey on 30 Dec 2020 09:46 AM

I'm assuming you mean the Package Installation Report. Here's the dump - I can't bold anything but I've spaced it out:

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Info Starting Installation - ResourceFile
Info Expanding Resource file

Info Creating backup of previous version - Documentation\Documentation.css
Info Created - Documentation/Documentation.css
Info Creating backup of previous version - Documentation\Documentation.html
Info Created - Documentation/Documentation.html
Info Creating backup of previous version - Controls\PASADPDash.ascx
Info Created - Controls/PASADPDash.ascx
Info Creating backup of previous version - Scripts\DPDash.js
Info Created - Scripts/DPDash.js
Info Creating backup of previous version - App_LocalResources\Edit.ascx.resx
Info Created - App_LocalResources/Edit.ascx.resx
Info Creating backup of previous version - App_LocalResources\Settings.ascx.resx
Info Created - App_LocalResources/Settings.ascx.resx
Info Creating backup of previous version - App_LocalResources\View.ascx.resx
Info Created - App_LocalResources/View.ascx.resx
Info Creating backup of previous version - Edit.ascx
Info Created - Edit.ascx
Info Creating backup of previous version - License.txt
Info Created - License.txt
Info Creating backup of previous version - module.css
Info Created - module.css
Info Creating backup of previous version - ReleaseNotes.txt
Info Created - ReleaseNotes.txt
Info Creating backup of previous version - Settings.ascx
Info Created - Settings.ascx
Info Creating backup of previous version - View.ascx
Info Created - View.ascx
Info Resource Files created
Info Component installed successfully - ResourceFile

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Ok, this helps, as it shows what is going on, as I suspected your installation file was processed successfully, but look at the smaller snippet that I left above in your quoted reply.

The only .HTML file in the resource zip file is the documentation.html file.

You must make sure that the build process puts everything needed into the resources.zip file inside of your module package, otherwise, it will not be included.

My guess is that you have other files/folders that don't match the packaging requirements in the Build targets.

Is only one .HTML file an indicator of something incorrect? The .ASCX file is my view - and I can install this module correctly to other DNN instances with identical installation reports and it works fine and unpacks to DesktopModules.

This issue of it not unpacking to DesktopModules only occurs on this one problem DNN install. Elsewhere the module works perfectly fine.

Even if things were missing I would expect something from Resources.zip to make it into the DesktopModules/ModuleName folder.

What file is missing?

Everything is missing - There is no "ModuleName" directory under DesktopModules at all. Or in wwwroot/ for that matter. 

The module view - that .ascx file - still works though as it's made it into the Files table.