I am very new to all this, so I apologize in advance for not proving necessary info or not knowing where to find it.
The current deploy is not uploading for some reason, although I do not receive any error messages or warning. As a result, my website is not loading. I deleted all the previous deploys, hoping that it would solve the problem.
Using the UI you should be able to see which deploy is Published.
You should also be able to see if you have a Locked Deploy.
If you’re using Drag & Drop as your deployment method, make sure you are updating the existing site (and not accidentally creating a new one).
If you:
Don’t have a locked deploy
Are updating the correct site
See the most recent ‘deployment’ as deployed
Then you should check to make sure that loading those same files locally actually shows the change you that you expect to see on Netlify. (E.g. Netlify won’t show a change, if there hasn’t actually been one.)
@Stas_Gorelik The ‘Drag & Drop’ deployment method just uploads the files “as is”.
I know it doesn’t perform or support some things that other methods do.
So while I can’t say for certain, (as I don’t use it), the log you’ve shown is probably correct.
If you’re deploying the files, and it says they’re deployed, and you’re going to the right URL, then I’d expect them to show the same as you see locally.
If they aren’t “changing” you should confirm that they are actually changed.
Make a very obvious change, confirm you see it locally, then upload that file.
I can see that I am uploading changed files within every new deploy. I did the same manual deploys two and three weeks ago. Now, it’s just not working. All of my “updates” are just updates in the text on the website.
I guess at this point I am just wondering how I could delete the whole thing (stas-gorelik.com) asap and then create a new website.
@Stas_Gorelik Just so you’re aware, I can’t see what you see, and I don’t work for Netlify, so I have precisely zero visibility.
I’m just providing guidance on what “might be wrong” based only on your explanation, and issues that I’ve seen others experience over the years. So I could be wildly wrong on my guesses.
The “Drag & Drop” system is fairly simple, but it is also ‘error prone’ and Netlify don’t plan on fixing it, as it’s not a primary method for site creation/updates for them, it just exists for people to “try things out”, see this thread: https://answers.netlify.com/t/fixed-drag-drop-issue-status-workaround/64314/18
You simply shouldn’t need to delete the existing site to upload a new version of it.
Either to the existing site, or to a new site on Netlify.
But at this stage it’s also unfortunately ‘less likely that something is wrong on Netlify’ than 'you’re just confused or making a mistake somehow’.
So I’m advising from that perspective, trying to get you to just look at your files, the relevant documentation etc. If we started seeing others report the same issue in a short time-frame, then I’d start to lean towards there being some actual issue.
If it’s at all possible, you should switch to using either git deployment or the CLI.
Sorry, I didn’t mean anything, thanks for your support! I figured out what was wrong. All good now. That said, I still can’t understand how that problem arose in the first place
So, the issue is not at Netlify. The issue is that these files are not changing locally so you keep uploading the unchanged filed to Netlify. Again, I cannot see the local system to determine why this is happening but it is what is happening.
