I successfully deployed a Hugo blog project to GitLab Pages yesterday, but even after 12+ hours it isn’t available, i.e. its designated URL 404s.
Could anyone help me troubleshoot why it won’t come up? AFAICT, I’ve done everything correctly.
Deployed to Gitlab Pages, still unavailable after more than 12 hours
I was able to get it published now - I can’t tell for sure, but I’m pretty certain it’s because I changed the project’s visibility to public instead of private. I also had to make another deploy after making it public, before it came up. I noticed the same behaviour with another project, so I guess this more or less confirms that there’s a bug with GitHub Pages and private projects?
@aknudsen Welcome to the forum!
The visibility level of the project shouldn’t matter as the deployment will be public regardless. On your first deployment there is usually a delay of ~30 minutes or so that we’re working on reducing, but I’ve never personally seen it take longer than that.
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But I saw that it took more than a day, and it only got published after I changed visibility to public and redeployed. I also experienced a previous project to only get published after I changed its visibility to public. Is this purely coincidence?
Have you tested publishing a private project to verify that it works?
Hi @aknudsen,
A deploy time more than 30-60 minutes is abnormal. I’ve never seen it take longer than a couple hours. Has this happened before?
I’m not sure why it would take this long, but I can confirm that Private projects are visible in Pages form.
This Private Jekyll project was forked and deployed to pages in ~5 minutes: https://greg.gitlab.io/jekyll/
A fork of your personal-blog project, also set to private was built and deployed on GitLab Pages in ~20 minutes:
I deleted this fork after testing, but here’s a screenshot:
I can confirm that setting a project to “Private” will not limit the accessibility of the GitLab Pages deployment.
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hi @gitlab-greg, it has happened to me once before, and then I experienced the same thing, i.e. that I had to make the project public and re-deploy it before it was published. Is there any way to see why GitLab hasn’t published a project yet?
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Been trying to setup a simple HTML site and tried both writing my own HTML and forking a different project. But I’m still getting a 404 message when I check my Gitlab pages. I’ve seen posts about delays, anyone else having or has had this experience that might want to provide a little guidance?