Netlify deploy --prod Error: Project not found. Please rerun "netlify link"

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  • We need to know your netlify site name. tv-devsite.netlify.app
  • DNS issues? no custom domain
  • Build problems? netlify deploy problem using CI CD pipeline in gitlab

The pipeline steps in details:

#stored auth token variable in CI CD variables section and exported as well when running pipeline

  • export NETLIFY_AUTH_TOKEN=“$NETLIFY_AUTH_TOKEN”

run sites list to confirm authentication

  • netlify sites:list

this step works fine and displays all my site IDs

run netlify deployment

netlify deploy \ --site=“30074e84-2732-4f8c-a56f-a5f6af89fd96” \ --prod

this fails with error
Error: Project not found. Please rerun “netlify link”

this is a linux machine running docker image node:24

need some help here to troubleshoot, site id is 30074e84-2732-4f8c-a56f-a5f6af89fd96

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I don’t know if this helps, I’m able to run the deployment now,

this is what I changed

using
rm -rf .netlify
in the steps before starting build

using an auth check condition like this
netlify sites:list || { echo "Auth failed"; exit 1; }
to verify that auth token loaded from CICD pipeline library properly when the pipeline starts

I’ve run two other extra commands

netlify unlink
netlify link --id $NETLIFY_SITE_ID

Also as a last step clean runner caches in the pipelines menu in gitlab

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The steps did not work reliably, turn out there is more to this.

It worked few times but started failing consistently again and again.

I will wait for a solution to this.

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this is finally solved, the firewall was blocking access to

api.netlifysdk.com
dl.deno.land

also allow
api.netlify.com

these will solve the problem of error like “Error: Project not found. Please rerun “netlify link””