Publish fails when project name has special characters

[tomvaillant]

Hi Matthew, hope you're doing alright! Slowly but surely becoming more familiar with Idyll and excited to continue getting better over time:)

Trying to publish a Scrollytelling post, console is confirming project deployed at https://idyll.pub/post/stella_1-65f57118b1f58a332968bc5f/

However if you open the URL you'll see the issue. "Deployment not found" "vercel.app might be available". Hoping you might have seen this one before?

Thanks!

[mathisonian]

Hey @buriedsignals!

I've seen this occasionally happen with names containing special characters that our hosting provider doesn't like. If you follow these steps does it work:

• Change the name of your project in package.json from stella_1 to stella1
• Remove the publish token: rm .idyll/token
• Re-run the deploy idyll build && idyll publish

If that does the trick it would indicate an issue with _. In that case we should add some logic to warn people about it, or automatically generate a URL that doesn't have those issues

[tomvaillant]

Hey @mathisonian thank you that fixed it. Appreciate you sending through a detailed answer so quickly. Have a great Sunday!

[mathisonian]

Glad that took care of it @buriedsignals. I'm going to leave this issue open until we have a better fix available

[mrviniciux]

@mathisonian could you assign this to me?

[mathisonian]

You got it @mrviniciux. A PR is very welcome here - I think the most straightforward approach will be to sanitize the project name in the publish command.