Error: Site not found. Please rerun "netlify link"

[tpluscode]

I don't know why, my deployments stopped working after a period of inactivity:

Error: Site not found. Please rerun "netlify link"

I did not do anything. Now I recreated the access token and made sure that the SITE ID is correct but still the action fails. Have you seen this before?

[jsmrcaga]

Hi @tpluscode ! I have not! It looks like the CLI does not know anymore what site you are talking about https://docs.netlify.com/cli/get-started/#link-and-unlink-sites

From what I can see in the docs the link command just adds an id to the .netlify/state.json of your project. BUT https://docs.netlify.com/cli/get-started/#link-with-an-environment-variable

Link with an environment variable
Alternatively, you can link to a site by finding the site ID
in the Netlify UI, then adding it to your local terminal environment:

Go to 
Site configuration > General > Site details > Site information,
and copy the value for Site ID.

Assign the ID to a NETLIFY_SITE_ID environment variable,
in your terminal settings or in the UI of a Continuous Integration (CI) tool.

So having set the NETLIFY_SITE_ID env var should be enough.

Can you verify if your env var is still ok and matches your project ?

Since we are using the Github-bundled version of netlify-cli they might have updated it :/ inconvenient for actions now that I think about it

[tpluscode]

What I did was to complete recreate that site on netlify and changed the site id. It deployed successfully then. Will try your suggestions if I encounter this again

[jonybekov]

I've encountered the same problem

[jsmrcaga]

@jonybekov did the solutions above help in any way? Did you find another solution you could share here?

[jonybekov]

@jonybekov did the solutions above help in any way? Did you find another solution you could share here?

I tried your solution but it didn't help. I've ended up implementing it from scratch

name: "Deploy production"

on:
  release:
    types: ["published"]

jobs:
  deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    environment: Production

    steps:
      - name: Repository checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v4

      - name: Install Dependencies
        run: npm ci

      - name: Create .env file
        run: |
          echo "VITE_ENV_1=${{ secrets.VITE_ENV_1 }}" >> .env
          echo "VITE_ENV_2=${{ secrets.VITE_ENV_2 }}" >> .env
          echo "VITE_ENV_3=${{ secrets.VITE_ENV_3 }}" >> .env

      - name: Build project
        run: npm run build

      - name: Deploy to Netlify
        id: netlify_deploy
        run: |
          npx netlify deploy \
            --dir dist \
            --site ${{ secrets.NETLIFY_SITE_ID }} \
            --auth ${{ secrets.NETLIFY_API_TOKEN }} \
            --message "Production deploy ${{ github.event.release.tag_name }}" \
            --prod-if-unlocked