we currently use the netlify CLI in at the end of a CI to deploy the builds of our website to netlify. The staging branch is published to staging–semasquare.netlify.app and we configured a DNS entry pointing from staging.semasquare.com to it. But despite the DNS entry, staging.semasquare.com does not redirect to staging–semasquare.netlify.app but to semasquare.netlify.app instead ( which is the main Branch).
PS: I got an “ExternalUploadHelpers::ExternalUploadValidationError” error trying to upload images of the DNS entry and build process.
Sitename: semasquare
Hi, @ssquare. The issue in this case is that the branch deploys are only possible if using the Git-back “build and deploy” workflow at Netlify. If you make manual deploys using the CLI tool, the API, or using the web UI - then the branch deploys features will not work.
There is an open feature request for the deploys using the --alias option to be treated as branch deploys here:
To summarize, it isn’t possible at this time. If you watch that issue, we’ll update it if when this feature becomes available.
Please let us know if there are any other questions about this.