Hi, I have a Hugo site deployed on Netlify. I have been making changes & commiting them from past few days. I observed only today that the deployed site is not same as that of local site. The build log shows no error. The repo is on GitLab (but not open source). I am using the same version 0.86.0 both for dev & prod (on Netlify). I very well understand that the problem might not be on Hugo side.
My dev machine logs
🚀 hugo serve
Start building sites …
hugo v0.86.0-41C6C52E+extended windows/amd64 BuildDate=2021-07-21T09:53:14Z VendorInfo=gohugoio
| EN
-------------------+------
Pages | 19
Paginator pages | 2
Non-page files | 0
Static files | 247
Processed images | 27
Aliases | 1
Sitemaps | 1
Cleaned | 0
Netlify build log
5:00:18 PM: Build ready to start
5:00:20 PM: build-image version: 122b31996ccaffd45d820a452d6227f8312110cc (focal)
5:00:20 PM: build-image tag: v4.5.3
5:00:20 PM: buildbot version: 398bd8f0cf7c89ede5175bf64d57dd805e2eab84
5:00:20 PM: Building without cache
5:00:20 PM: Starting to prepare the repo for build
5:00:21 PM: No cached dependencies found. Cloning fresh repo
5:00:21 PM: git clone git@gitlab.com:/**my repo**
5:00:22 PM: Preparing Git Reference refs/heads/main
5:00:23 PM: Parsing package.json dependencies
5:00:24 PM: Starting build script
5:00:24 PM: Installing dependencies
5:00:24 PM: Python version set to 2.7
5:00:25 PM: v16.13.2 is already installed.
5:00:26 PM: Now using node v16.13.2 (npm v8.1.2)
5:00:26 PM: Started restoring cached build plugins
5:00:26 PM: Finished restoring cached build plugins
5:00:26 PM: Attempting ruby version 2.7.2, read from environment
5:00:28 PM: Using ruby version 2.7.2
5:00:28 PM: Using PHP version 8.0
5:00:28 PM: Installing Hugo 0.86.0
5:00:30 PM: hugo v0.86.0-41C6C52E+extended linux/amd64 BuildDate=2021-07-21T09:53:14Z VendorInfo=gohugoio
5:00:30 PM: Started restoring cached go cache
5:00:30 PM: Finished restoring cached go cache
5:00:30 PM: go version go1.16.5 linux/amd64
5:00:30 PM: go version go1.16.5 linux/amd64
5:00:30 PM: Installing missing commands
5:00:30 PM: Verify run directory
5:00:32 PM:
5:00:32 PM: ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
5:00:32 PM: Netlify Build
5:00:32 PM: ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
5:00:32 PM:
5:00:32 PM: ❯ Version
5:00:32 PM: @netlify/build 26.2.3
5:00:32 PM:
5:00:32 PM: ❯ Flags
5:00:32 PM: baseRelDir: true
5:00:32 PM: buildId: 61fd0e4a03e7d0ab1645a0dd
5:00:32 PM: deployId: 61fd0e4a03e7d0ab1645a0df
5:00:32 PM:
5:00:32 PM: ❯ Current directory
5:00:32 PM: /opt/build/repo
5:00:32 PM:
5:00:32 PM: ❯ Config file
5:00:32 PM: No config file was defined: using default values.
5:00:32 PM:
5:00:32 PM: ❯ Context
5:00:32 PM: production
5:00:32 PM:
5:00:32 PM: ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
5:00:32 PM: 1. Build command from Netlify app
5:00:32 PM: ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
5:00:32 PM:
5:00:32 PM: $ hugo
5:00:32 PM: Start building sites …
5:00:32 PM: hugo v0.86.0-41C6C52E+extended linux/amd64 BuildDate=2021-07-21T09:53:14Z VendorInfo=gohugoio
5:00:32 PM: | EN
5:00:32 PM: -------------------+------
5:00:32 PM: Pages | 19
5:00:32 PM: Paginator pages | 2
5:00:32 PM: Non-page files | 0
5:00:32 PM: Static files | 247
5:00:32 PM: Processed images | 22
5:00:32 PM: Aliases | 1
5:00:32 PM: Sitemaps | 1
5:00:32 PM: Cleaned | 0
5:00:32 PM: Total in 165 ms
5:00:32 PM:
5:00:32 PM: (build.command completed in 240ms)
5:00:32 PM:
5:00:32 PM: ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
5:00:32 PM: 2. Deploy site
5:00:32 PM: ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
5:00:32 PM:
5:00:32 PM: Starting to deploy site from 'public'
5:00:32 PM: Creating deploy tree
5:00:32 PM: Creating deploy upload records
5:00:32 PM: 12 new files to upload
5:00:32 PM: 0 new functions to upload
5:00:33 PM: Site deploy was successfully initiated
5:00:33 PM:
5:00:33 PM: (Deploy site completed in 893ms)
5:00:33 PM:
5:00:33 PM: ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
5:00:33 PM: Netlify Build Complete
5:00:33 PM: ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
5:00:33 PM:
5:00:33 PM: (Netlify Build completed in 1.2s)
5:00:33 PM: Starting post processing
5:00:33 PM: Post processing - HTML
5:00:33 PM: Caching artifacts
5:00:33 PM: Started saving build plugins
5:00:33 PM: Finished saving build plugins
5:00:33 PM: Started saving pip cache
5:00:33 PM: Finished saving pip cache
5:00:33 PM: Started saving emacs cask dependencies
5:00:33 PM: Finished saving emacs cask dependencies
5:00:33 PM: Started saving maven dependencies
5:00:33 PM: Finished saving maven dependencies
5:00:33 PM: Started saving boot dependencies
5:00:33 PM: Finished saving boot dependencies
5:00:33 PM: Started saving rust rustup cache
5:00:33 PM: Finished saving rust rustup cache
5:00:33 PM: Started saving go dependencies
5:00:33 PM: Finished saving go dependencies
5:00:34 PM: Post processing - header rules
5:00:34 PM: Post processing - redirect rules
5:00:34 PM: Post processing done
5:00:35 PM: Build script success
5:00:36 PM: Site is live ✨
5:00:52 PM: Finished processing build request in 32.537958743s
I even triggered a deploy with ‘clear cache’ option. But no result.
P.S: there is nothing in my codebase where Hugo has to do different things for dev & prod. So, I think they both should be same. Also, everything was working fine until 2 days ago.