Blogdown: Deploy with Netlify fails with standard theme

Question

I just installed a new RStudio project with blogdown + standard theme from scratch and deployed it via GitHub to Netlify. A process which worked all the time with older versions of hugo-lithium-theme. But now it does not deploy. I changed nothing at all: just installed and pushed it via my GitHub-repo to Netlify

The last few lines with error message were:

10:03:08 PM: Build complete: exit code: 0
10:03:08 PM: Cleaning up docker container 
10:03:08 PM: Starting to deploy site from 'publish' 
10:03:08 PM: Deploying to CDN 10:03:09 PM: Failed to deploy publish to CDN 
10:03:09 PM: stat /mnt/build-work/buildbot-796257821/repo/publish: no such file or directory 
10:03:09 PM: Finished processing build request in 16.651393261s

I was using HUGO_VERSION 0.27

Answer 1

[Update] I just noticed this line in the error log:

10:03:08 PM: Starting to deploy site from 'publish' 

You probably specified a wrong folder name for the publish directory. The default for Hugo is public instead of publish. See Section 3.1 of the blogdown book for some sample settings.

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Occasionally Netlify fails to build a site (for reasons that I don't understand), and you can try to click the "Trigger deploy" button in the "Deploys" tab on https://app.netlify.com if you want to redeploy the master branch of your repo:

Or click the specific failed deploy then click the "Retry deploy" button: