Couldn't Publish your site

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I am getting a “couldn’t Publish you Website” when i try to save and publish. This occured after the new update. Can someone assist.

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Is that connection via SSH or the one Bootstrap offers?

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the following is not necessarily happening, but you might want to try it eitherway;
check on your published site and on local dev server, check on the console, whether some request throws 404: not found;

when your site keep making this 404 one of the side effects is you couldn’t publish newer one for a period(may be hours), if so, make sure your site to not throw any 404 before republish(after you can publish again);

again, this is just one of many possibilities;

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It’s the one Bootstrap offers.

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Fix: “Couldn’t publish your website” after 8.0.1 update

If you’re getting the “Couldn’t publish your website” error after the auto-update to 8.0.1, here’s a workaround that worked for me.

The idea: downgrade your .bsdesign file so it opens in 8.0.0, then publish from there.

Steps:

  1. Download and install version 8.0.0 from the Bootstrap Studio website (they have older versions available at Download Bootstrap Studio ).

  2. Your .bsdesign file won’t open in 8.0.0 because 8.0.1 bumped the internal version number. To fix that:

    a. The .bsdesign file is just a gzip compressed JSON file. Use 7-Zip to open/extract it.
    b. Open the extracted file in any text editor (VS Code, Notepad++, etc).
    c. At the very beginning of the file you’ll see “version”:87 - change 87 to 86.
    d. Save the file and recompress it back to gzip using 7-Zip.
    e. Rename the file back to .bsdesign if needed.

  3. Open the modified .bsdesign file in Bootstrap Studio 8.0.0.

  4. Publish as usual. It should work.

Nothing in the actual design data changes, you’re only telling BSS it’s a version it recognizes. Hopefully the devs push a fix for 8.0.1 soon so we don’t have to keep doing this.

This worked for me, worked wonders! You can also ask an AI to change the version for you if it is able to do that.

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Don’t forget to uninstall your bootstrap studio first before installing the old version.

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@rdegale this fix should work for you.

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Thank you for the reports! We were able to track down and fix the publishing issue. The fix is entirely server-side on our hosting platform, no updates to Bootstrap Studio are necessary.

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Thanks Martin! Didn’t get back to you with the .bsdesign file but glad it was hot fixed!