Netlify Site Deployment fails with message: "failed during stage 'building site': Deploy directory 'web/web/public' does not exist"

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Hello - I am trying to build/deploy a new gatsby + sanity.io blog. I followed the instructions from “How to quickly set up a Gatsby.js JAMstack website with a headless CMS” but site fails to build with the message

“failed during stage ‘building site’: Deploy directory ‘web/web/public’ does not exist”

I expected it to build fine but it seems to have trouble with the deploy direction 'web/web/public". I actually found a similar topic on this forum from someone else with same issue: Deploy directory 'web/web/public' does not exist, however fixing/rearranging the base directory/publish directory in the settings of Netlify does not seem to work for me.

Can someone help me deploy my site to netlify?

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Hi @jujulicious, you’ll want to change your ‘publish directory’ in your site’s deploy settings to the correct path. If you are still seeing issues, can you share the site’s name?

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How does one determine what the correct path should be?

I have a nuxt project with a bitbucket repo where:
• package.json is in the root folder.
• the ‘publish directory’ is called ‘dist’, also located at the root.

I’ve tried base as ‘/’, ‘gd3’ (the name of the repo), and not declaring a base at all. Everything results in:
Failed during stage ‘building site’: Deploy directory ‘dist’ does not exist

My site name is gd3

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Turns out my dist folder was listed in .gitignore, once i removed that line the site deployed without the need to declare a base

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