Netlify deploy hangs at Waiting for deploy to go live

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HI,
I was able to deploy on May 7. On May 8 my builds started failing. I am able to successfully build locally. the build logs are below. To attempt to get around this i stopped the automatic build and deploy and attempted to deploy from my local command line. I installed netlify-cli v 2.50. I executed netlify login and netlify link. When linking i used the site id. Both commands executed successfully. Then a deployed with the follow command

netlify deploy --prod -d .build --timeout 9999

The command line just hangs at the line ā€œWaiting for deploy to go liveā€. I tried cli versions 2.50, 2.49 and 2.21 but all do the same thing. Iā€™m currently using node v10.20.1

site name: https://mymacgym.netlify.app/
build logs:
5:21:42 PM: Build script success
5:21:42 PM: Failing build: Failed to build site
5:21:42 PM: Failed during stage ā€˜building siteā€™: Deploy directory ā€˜.buildā€™ does not exist
5:21:42 PM: Finished processing build request in 46.386728032s

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hmm, i think the problem might be with the way you have named your build directory. Iā€™m not sure we handle directory names with dots in them very well. did this used to work?

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Hi perry, thank you for responding. Yes it did work before. The automated deploy was working as of May 7. On may 8 it no longer worked. Iā€™ll change the build folder so that it doesnā€™t start with a ā€˜.ā€™ and see if that works

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yes, that would have been my next suggestion! let us know how it goes.

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Thanks perry. i changed my destination folder from ā€˜.buildā€™ to ā€˜buildā€™. I was able to deploy via the command line. the automated deploys are still failing. the log message states its still looking for ā€˜.buildā€™. but iā€™m on a path to recovery.

thanks again for your help.

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great, we are making some progress then.

could you post a screenshot of your build settings? i want to try and see if we can get your automated builds working again.

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As soon as i clicked the reply button, i thought of the build settings. It was still referencing ā€˜.buildā€™. I updated it and deployed and everything is working as expected.

Thanks again. Stay safe!

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hooray! go team! glad its working. :smiley:

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Today, I got same issue. I build a node project in sub folder (name ā€˜uiā€™), so I build and it create /ui/build folder

I set base folder is ui already. But when deploy netlify can not found build folder.

So after that I set build folder to ui/build and it work (althrough on config screen it display ā€œui/ui/buildā€

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Hey there!

Thatā€™s absolutely right. Your publish directory will always append your base directory :+1:.