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Recently I noticed a new netlify site of mine was down while I was checking to see if new content was live. Later found out this was consistent after each and every push the site would go gown as soon as I hit push, and would not come back until the build finished.
Is this normal? #
Do other Netlify sites go down during build???
Short Answer NO. All of my google fu lead me to believe I was alone and none of my other sites do this.
Digging into my build #
My deploy script ends with the following. After resetting keys and watching it build half a dozen times I determined that everything was working as normal here.
- name: Deploy to Netlify uses: nwtgck/[email protected] with: publish-dir: "./markout" production-branch: markout production-deploy: true deploy-message: "Deploy markout from GitHub Actions" env: NETLIFY_AUTH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.NETLIFY_AUTH_TOKEN }} NETLIFY_SITE_ID: ${{ secrets.NETLIFY_SITE_ID }}
Opening the Nelify Console #
After poking at the netlify console for hours I realized that the issue was that netlify was still auto-deploying from a no longer existing directory and would cause 404's for every page. During build, then my build from GitHub Actions would deploy with the netlify cli.
Netlify really likes to put a lot of warnings up when you are not deploying from them. I tured off automatic deploys, swore to the netlify gods this is what I wanted. Pushed a new deploy and 🎉 THE SITE DID NOT GO DOWN.
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TURN OFF AUTOMATIC BUILDS WHEN SWITCHING TO A SELF BUILD #
Moral of the story here is to turn off Netlify's automatic builds when building yourself and using the netlify cli.