# Site built locally with \`hugo serve\` looks fine, but there are problems on netlify **URL:** \ **Category:** support\ **Tags:** netlify\ **Created:** [February 4, 2022, 1:33pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/site-built-locally-with-hugo-serve-looks-fine-but-there-are-problems-on-netlify/36973 "2022-02-04T13:33:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1

**Author:** ![Sid](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/sid/32/15234_2.png) [@Sid](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/Sid)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2022, 1:33pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/site-built-locally-with-hugo-serve-looks-fine-but-there-are-problems-on-netlify/36973/1 "2022-02-04T13:33:37Z")

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. ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/uploads/gohugo/original/3X/1/a/1a82bc4be603ee3506e32e50090c0acbcd6083b1.png) ## My dev machine logs ```auto 🚀 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 ```auto 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. ---

**Author:** ![Sid](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/sid/32/15234_2.png) [@Sid](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/Sid)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2022, 1:43pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/site-built-locally-with-hugo-serve-looks-fine-but-there-are-problems-on-netlify/36973/2 "2022-02-04T13:43:35Z")

Changing the `baseURL` to `/` solved the problem. ---

**Author:** ![alexandros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@alexandros](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/alexandros)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2022, 1:56pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/site-built-locally-with-hugo-serve-looks-fine-but-there-are-problems-on-netlify/36973/3 "2022-02-04T13:56:19Z")

> [@Sid](#): > > `baseURL` to `/` solved the problem. Good on you for solving the problem but the `baseURL` needs to be set to the domain that is going to be used for publishing the project. ---

**Author:** ![Sid](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/sid/32/15234_2.png) [@Sid](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/Sid)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2022, 2:02pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/site-built-locally-with-hugo-serve-looks-fine-but-there-are-problems-on-netlify/36973/4 "2022-02-04T14:02:59Z")

Thanks for pitching in @alexandros . You are correct. I’m completely aware of that. ---

**Author:** ![system](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/system/32/1_2.png) [@system](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2022, 2:03pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/site-built-locally-with-hugo-serve-looks-fine-but-there-are-problems-on-netlify/36973/5 "2022-02-06T14:03:00Z")

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