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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.