"Looks like you've followed a broken link" when viewing site

hi there, that’s annoying. But you worked through that guide?

you haven’t provided your netlify name, or otherwise told us what you have tried - we can’t really help you if we don’t know where to look…

Are you using a static site generator, if yes, which one?

facing the same issue, did you get a solution ?

hi there, did you follow the guide?
which site is this regarding? thanks.

Hello

This is my site

https://gracious-rosalind-8e0ad5.netlify.com

i am a beginner and i got the error ’

Page Not Found

Looks like you’ve followed a broken link or entered a URL that doesn’t exist on this site.’

i tried to follow the guide and i have attached the screenshot of the same. i am not sure how to go ahead with the guide. Could you please help.

Thank you.

Hi @Neha. It seem you are trying to deploy a completely static site from Github. Netlify however needs some kind of build command for your site do deploy.

If you want to use continuous deployment on Netlify, you’ll have to use a static site generator or another build command (like npm run build etc).

You can deploy static html, but you’ll have to use the drag and drop interface at the bottom of the dashboard.

Hey @Neha and @tomrutgers! that’s actually not quite correct - you can deploy a static html-only site to Netlify, you don’t need a static site generator. You can just leave the build command blank in that case. (tom’s comment that you CAN use drag n drop is correct!)

The publish directory needs to be the directory that contains the index.html file. The base can be blank in this case.

For example, here are the settings for an html only site of ours that does not have a build step:

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Oh wow @perry, I did not know that! Sorry :zipper_mouth_face:

totally fine! it lead to a productive discussion about how very experienced netlify users (and you are about as experienced and as knowledgeable as they come, more so than our staff!) sometimes don’t know you don’t need an SSG. We are going to figure out how to make this knowledge more widely known! so thanks, actually!

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Hello,
My build settings are quite the same. i had also tried to add the ‘/* /indel.html 200’ to my html code but nothing seems to work. i am still not getting how to solve this issue

thank you.

Actually, your site is deploying just fine @neha. I took a look at your repo, it’s missing an index.html page. The other pages work: About

Hey, I’m new here and I’m having problem deploying my website.
I built a simple website that doesn’t need a build command, I linked the corresponding github repo to netlify, deployed and got the url https://sharp-einstein-d231a0.netlify.com created, that says page not found. Can you please tell me what I did wrong ? Thanks !

Can you share your repo?

Sure : https://github.com/henridelozanne/space-tetris

Is it because the index.html is not at the root ?

Indeed! You’ll have to set your base directory to ‘code’. You can read all about that here: Build configuration overview | Netlify Docs

That makes sense ! However in my netflify’s project page in the ‘build settings’ section I tried to add ‘code’ or ‘/code’ as the base directory and it doesn’t seem to work, also tried with the complete path ‘https://github.com/henridelozanne/space-tetris/code’ but I still have a ‘page not found’… Is there something else I’m missing ?

As it wasn’t working I modified my github project to set my sub-folder ‘code’ which contains the index.html as the main repo. I then deleted the ‘code’ base directory on netlify but I still have the ‘page not found’ message. Any idea what is wrong ?

thank you sir, the link you have sent in the above mail totally works. but when i log in through netlify main page, i still get the same error message. may be as you said i am still missing a index html page. how am i supposed to add that.

thank you

You can either make a new html file to your Github repository that you want to use as a homepage and call it index.html or rename a file already present in your repo to index.html . In the latter case, you’ll have to update your navigation, probably.

I cloned your repo, created a new site and left all the build setting empty. It deploys perfectly: https://naughty-bose-2a3616.netlify.com/. Maybe try starting fresh?

Indeed ! I created a new site from the modified github repo and now it works fine :slight_smile: Thanks a lot !

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