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Failed to load config.yml error message when first logging on to deployed site

Open ItsEthanH opened this issue 1 year ago • 7 comments

Describe the bug When deploying a project using DecapCMS, the first time you go to /admin/, an error message shows reading:

Error loading the CMS configuration Config Errors:

Error: Failed to load config.yml (404)

Check your config.yml file.

It seems as if this is because the URL isn't formatted correctly. Going to /admin/ redirects me to:

https://www.domain.com/admin#/

When instead I should go to

https://www.domain.com/admin/#/

To Reproduce

  1. Go to a project using Decap, without having logged in before (clearing cookies may help with this)
  2. Navigate to the /admin/ route
  3. Note the above error message, with the document URL path reading /admin#/
  4. Change the path to /admin/#/
  5. Note that this now works

Expected behavior For a user to immediately go to /admin/#/

Screenshots

Broken path and error: image

Applicable Versions:

  • Netlify CMS version: ^2.0.0
  • Git provider: Github
  • OS: Windows 10
  • Browser version Firefox 115.0.3 64bit
  • Node.JS version: v20.3.1

CMS configuration May not be relevant, as it's been replicated with a range of CMS configurations, however:

backend: name: git-gateway branch: main

local_backend: true logo_url: https://codestitch.app/frontend/images/logo.png

media_folder: "public/assets/images/blog" public_folder: "/assets/images/blog"

collections: - name: "blog" label: "Blog" folder: "src/content/blog" create: true slug: "{{slug}}" fields: - { label: "Title", name: "title", widget: "string" } - { label: "Description", name: "description", widget: "string" } - { label: "Author", name: "author", widget: "string" } - { label: "Date", name: "date", widget: "datetime" } - { label: "Tags", name: "tags", widget: "list", default: ["post"] } - { label: "Featured Image", name: "image", widget: "image" } - { label: "Image Caption", name: "imageAlt", widget: "string" } - { label: "Body", name: "body", widget: "markdown" }

ItsEthanH avatar Jul 29 '23 19:07 ItsEthanH

@ItsEthanH which SSG are you using?

martinjagodic avatar Jul 31 '23 07:07 martinjagodic

Heya, it's eleventy :)

ItsEthanH avatar Jul 31 '23 12:07 ItsEthanH

I observed the same bug with the Hugo template: https://github.com/decaporg/one-click-hugo-cms/issues/781

martinjagodic avatar Aug 25 '23 07:08 martinjagodic

I had the same issue. It seems Decap is trying to load the config from the root path (/config.yml) instead of the admin path (/admin/config.yml).

fdb avatar Aug 25 '23 13:08 fdb

I have the same issue also with 11ty.

soonium avatar Sep 22 '23 14:09 soonium

Hi everyone, I am today trying to use that CMS, and showing the same problem. It showed me a 404 config.yml not found. Has anyone solved the problem? Thanks

sukaikan avatar Dec 17 '23 08:12 sukaikan

Not sure if it's helpful, but I use Eleventy and had to manually pass through the config file in the build settings. For eleventy it was adding config.addPassthroughCopy({ "admin/config.yml": "admin/config.yml" }); to my .eleventy.js config file.

tonyd256 avatar Feb 01 '24 20:02 tonyd256