Question
App Platform Website Not Updating with Deploy
- Posted May 5, 2021
- DigitalOcean App PlatformNext.jsStrapiDeployment
Hi everyone!
I have a website that I built in Next JS and I’m hosting it on the App Platform with Strapi for the CMS.
When I make updates to the content in Strapi, I can see the changes take affect on my local instance of the website, but the live version won’t take the changes unless I redeploy the project by pushing code to my github repo.
Here are other deploy / build methods available that don’t seem to work:
- The deploy button in the app platform dashboard.
- Running ‘npm run build’ in the app platform console.
- Manually triggering a deploy by submitting a POST request to the deployments API.
The client I built the website for is getting pretty annoyed about having to ask me to deploy content for them so any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated!
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👋🏼 @jongauthier
Thanks for the details - the steps are helpful too! What’s happening is that when you make changes in Strapi and redeploy your app, App Platform does not know about those changes and sees that your source code and other app config is the same, so it skips the build to save time.
In this case you’ll want to force a rebuild so that the new content is retrieved from Strapi. This is something that we are working on adding to the control panel soon, but for now you can do it using doctl or the API directly.
- Install doctl
- List your apps and find your app’s UUID:
doctl apps list. You can also find your app’s UUID in the control panel URL. - Kick off a new deployment:
doctl apps create-deployment --force-rebuild <app uuid>
Let me know if you run into any issues!
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I’m using incremental static generation from Next.js, which could be important. Also to clarify, by local instance, I mean a local production build, not a dev build.
I’ve noticed that the first step shown in the app platform dashboard is different when I build through pushing an HTML change to github versus the other deploy methods I listed.
Steps through github push:
Steps through other methods:
Not sure if that helps, but I figure it can’t hurt!