MdapiDeployCommand No org configuration found for name

Question

I am getting below error message when I try to validate salesforce deployment against target salesforce org.

{
    "status": 1,
    "name": "NoOrgFound",
    "message": "No org configuration found for name '00D18000000954Y!AQcAQEu9XXfRJP2hXd0lJX4Dp2CohWjDzXuvqrcNF'",
    "exitCode": 1,
    "commandName": "MdapiDeployCommand",
    "stack": "NoOrgFound: No org configuration found for name '00D18000000954Y!AQcAQEu9XXfRJP2hXd0lJX4Dp2CohWjDzXuvqrcNF'\n    at Function.create (C:\\Users\\user\\AppData\\Local\\sfdx\\node_modules\\@salesforce\\core\\lib\\sfdxError.js:141:16)\n    at AuthInfo.initAuthOptions (C:\\Users\\user\\AppData\\Local\\sfdx\\node_modules\\@salesforce\\core\\lib\\authInfo.js:509:53)",
        "warnings": [
            "The error message \"NoOrgFound\" has been deprecated and will be removed in v46 or later.  It will become \"NamedOrgNotFound\"."
    ]
}

I have used this command to validate

sfdx force:mdapi:deploy -c -d D:/GitCom/tmp/482c0eb0-272b-4fd2-ac27-65e706175218/main-deploy/force-app/main/default -u '00D18000000954Y!AQcAQEu9XXfRJP2hXd0lJX4Dp2CohWjDzXuvqrcNF' -w 5 --json

I am using Windows OS 10 and SFDX version

sfdx --version
sfdx-cli/7.28.7-7bceba6f24 win32-x64 node-v10.15.3

I am able to retrieve data from connected orgs, only deployment validation giving issue .

Answer 1

According to the documentation when you run sfdx force:mdapi:deploy -h the -u flag accepts

username or alias for the target org; overrides default target

In your case, you appear to be trying to pass the OAuth access token direcly with this parameter, which is not how it works (unless there is some hidden secret way of using this parameter I'm not aware of). This would explain your "no org found" error.

So for you, based on the output from running force:org:list, you could either pass the alias or the username of whichever org you are trying to deploy to. I'll take a stab that you're aiming to deploy to staging, so you command would look like this:

sfdx force:mdapi:deploy -u SFStage -c -d D:/GitCom/tmp/482c0eb0-272b-4fd2-ac27-65e706175218/main-deploy/force-app/main/default -w 5 --json