Deployment Fails with Fatal Unknown Target Error

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I’ve been hosting my static website with Vite.js for a long time, and it has always worked fine. But today, when I tried to deploy, I started getting a “fatal: unknown target” error. No matter how many times I redeploy, the same error keeps showing up.

I also rolled back to a previous commit that was known to be stable, reverted my changes, and redeployed — but it still doesn’t work. I haven’t touched any configuration; my changes were only at the code level. Somehow, this failure started happening out of nowhere.

I even deleted the existing deployment and tried redeploying from scratch, but the issue persists. Now my site is completely down because I can’t get it deployed again.

I’ve spent hours trying everything I could think of: deleting deployments, reverting commits, redeploying multiple times. Nothing has worked.

Can you explain what’s going on? Is this a bug in the system that’s preventing deployment? I’m really stuck. Even the Replit assistant hasn’t been helpful — it doesn’t provide any useful suggestions.

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I have the same issue all day today

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Yep I am having same issue since day before yesterday

Seems like it stopped working sometime on Friday afternoon (US/PDT)

Same behavior no matter the project type, static deployment always fails with something like this:

2025-08-31T18:28:55Z fatal: unknown target

Opened a ticket with Replit support on Friday but have not gotten resolution yet

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I’m having the same issue. I’m trying to deploy a simple HTML static landing page and it fails the build process. I’ve spent 4 hours trying to troubleshoot this, even rebuilding my pages in other frameworks.

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Same issue for me. Have been deploying no problem for months. As of yesterday, it builds then unknown target. Assistant just sends me down a rabbit hold of changes that aren’t needed.

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Also getting this “Socket closed with event 4500 Internal server error” - which shows whether trying static or autscale. And now that I deleted the previous deployment, my site is down. :frowning:

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I have the same issue, I guess this is either something on their end. Hopefully it gets fixed soon.

I have a static website, nothing fancy. It worked like a charm for 2 weeks, and still does, I just can’t update it:)

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Same issue, the pure frontend project was deployed successfully 2 months ago, but got “unknown target“ error today.

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Same issue here with a similar site setup. Hopefully they can resolve this issue soon.

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I’m waiting one more day to get this fixed and will move out if it takes longer than that

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Hey gang: Static deployment working for me now. Hopefully this means they’ve fixed it.

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Hey, they seems to have fixed it already, I could depoly my site successfully now.

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Working for me as well.

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same here

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Yes it’s working for me now too

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This should be fixed now, tag me if anyone’s still hitting this