"no zip file found" error with the quick start guide

Hi,

I’m following the quick start guide to create my first serverless service and I’m not sure why it’s not working.

Guide: https://serverless.com/framework/docs/providers/aws/guide/quick-start/

OS: Win32
NodeJS: 10.15.1
Serverless: 1.14.1

What I did:

  1. Globally installed serverless and followed the instructions for setting my provider credentials.
  2. Ran “serverless create --template aws-nodejs --path …/testcommand”, which created a folder called ‘testcommand’ with the template code in it.
  3. Opened the folder in VS Code and ran “serverless deploy -v” in a terminal.

I then got the following debug log:

Serverless: Packaging service…
Serverless: Excluding development dependencies…

Serverless Error ---------------------------------------

No {path to my repo directory removed}\testcommand\.serverless\testcommand.zip file found in the package path you provided.

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I tried “serverless deploy” but got the same result.
Is there a separate command I need to run to generate the file or something else I need to set up not mentioned in the guide?

Reason found. I defined the path as “…/testcommand” so that was also the value of ‘service’ in serverless.yml, which caused it to fail.