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[rebullm]

Hi! In trying to upgrade from earlier version to v1.1, I used "use this template" and got the following error:

build-site / build-siteGet Pages site failed

build-site / build-siteAxiosError: Request failed with status code 404

Any idea how to move forward?
Thanks,
Meg

[vincerubinetti]

Hi Meg,

That error is due to the build workflow not being able to find the URL of your GitHub Pages site, which happens when you don't have GitHub Pages enabled and/or a gh-pages branch. To build the site successfully, the automated workflows need to be able to get the site URL. Did you follow these steps, particularly steps 2 and 3?

I'm assuming this is the repo you're referring to:
https://github.com/rebullm/Bennett-Lab-website-v1.1/

first-time-setup doesn't seem to have been run yet. Another thing that's strange to me is that the "on push to main" has been triggered/run two times, but there has only been one commit to main.

You'll see that the first run of it has a gray slash icon, because it was skipped. That is intentional. You'll see the reason in the workflow file in a comment: on the first run, nothing is setup yet, so the workflow would fail if run.

Did you manually re-run that workflow or something like that? From what I can tell, you didn't, in which case I can't explain why GitHub Actions would trigger the workflow twice for a single commit. If you didn't manually re-run it, it is safe to ignore, because it is expected (not a bug), and you can just follow the instructions like normal.

[rebullm]

Hi Vince, I hadn't gotten to steps 2 and 3, because I got the error on step 1. I'll keep going and ignore it.
Thanks,
Meg