# Cloudflare Pages does not recognize Zola and build fails **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [July 21, 2023, 3:46am UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/cloudflare-pages-does-not-recognize-zola-and-build-fails/1814 "2023-07-21T03:46:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![uwukia](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/zola.discourse.group/uwukia/32/1042_2.png) [@uwukia](https://zola.discourse.group/u/uwukia)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2023, 3:46am UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/cloudflare-pages-does-not-recognize-zola-and-build-fails/1814/1 "2023-07-21T03:46:11Z")
This is the first time I’ve ever tried deploying a personal blog using any tool (and, asking for help in a programming forum), so I’m assuming I’m just forgetting a simple step. I followed the steps in the website, set up the build configurations with the default Values, so the command is `zola build` and build output directory is `/public`. Then I’ve added the environment variable like this ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/zola1/original/2X/f/f3874cf0b23f8b517917eea0d891a65805828605.png) And the build logs tell me this ```auto 00:04:00.227 HEAD is now at 9cb8515 feat: initial commit 00:04:00.228 00:04:00.344 00:04:00.375 Success: Finished cloning repository files 00:04:01.059 Detected the following tools from environment: 00:04:01.060 Executing user command: zola build 00:04:01.068 /bin/sh: 1: zola: not found 00:04:01.069 Failed: Error while executing user command. Exited with error code: 127 00:04:01.077 Failed: build command exited with code: 1 00:04:01.982 Failed: error occurred while running build command ``` Because the “detected tools” is empty and zola wasn’t even recognized, I’m assuming it’s either a silly mistake or something weird that’s out of my control. ---
**Author:** ![uwukia](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/zola.discourse.group/uwukia/32/1042_2.png) [@uwukia](https://zola.discourse.group/u/uwukia)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2023, 4:47pm UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/cloudflare-pages-does-not-recognize-zola-and-build-fails/1814/2 "2023-07-22T16:47:11Z")
According to this [pull request](https://github.com/getzola/zola/pull/2253), it seems like the second version of build configs of Cloudflare Pages not installing the zola binary automatically. Switching to version 1 fixes it, and the steps are described in the pull request. ---
**Author:** ![JohnDotAwesome](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/zola.discourse.group/johndotawesome/32/1046_2.png) [@JohnDotAwesome](https://zola.discourse.group/u/JohnDotAwesome)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2023, 3:49pm UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/cloudflare-pages-does-not-recognize-zola-and-build-fails/1814/3 "2023-07-23T15:49:14Z")
Cross posting my comment here [v2 build system breaking Zola sites · Issue #3 · cloudflare/pages-build-image · GitHub](https://github.com/cloudflare/pages-build-image/issues/3#issuecomment-1646873666) Apologies for the issues using the v2 build image. I’ll look into adding Zola. As a workaround, you can leverage asdf in your build command (or the UNSTABLE\_PRE\_BUILD env var) and install the zola plugin and version there by prefixing your build command with this rather lengthy set of commands: ```auto asdf plugin add zola https://github.com/salasrod/asdf-zola && asdf install zola 0.17.2 && asdf global zola 0.17.2 && ``` ---
**Author:** ![ShawnPConroy](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/zola.discourse.group/shawnpconroy/32/1267_2.png) [@ShawnPConroy](https://zola.discourse.group/u/ShawnPConroy)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2025, 6:05pm UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/cloudflare-pages-does-not-recognize-zola-and-build-fails/1814/4 "2025-04-28T18:05:25Z")
I can use the `asdf` command method for my build command. It successfully builds all pages. However, my deploy still fails because I don’t know what to add as a deploy command. Everything should be in `./public` but I don’t see how to indicate to simply deploy that static site. Here is the build command updated for version 0.20.0: ```auto asdf plugin add zola https://github.com/salasrod/asdf-zola && asdf install zola 0.20.0 && asdf global zola 0.20.0 && zola build ``` By default it puts in a wrangle NPM command like `npx wrangler deploy`. I don’t know if that’s the best way to do it, or what the configuration for wrangle should be, or if there is one that runs faster with less or smaller dependencies. Sadly, we can no longer switch to v1 of the build system, as far as I can tell. ---
**Author:** ![theLaffa](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/zola.discourse.group/thelaffa/32/1452_2.png) [@theLaffa](https://zola.discourse.group/u/theLaffa)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2025, 11:46am UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/cloudflare-pages-does-not-recognize-zola-and-build-fails/1814/5 "2025-05-02T11:46:51Z")
Doesn’t look like you can change the build version when setting up a new page. Let the first build fail and goto settings for the page, they still have the option there. Though I am able to get v2 to publish with the asdf plugin command. My current build settings and the Build system version box shown below. ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/zola1/original/2X/7/72a652ec90b8595f8212ff3cd83ffa9947f50a9f.png) ---
**Author:** ![ShawnPConroy](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/zola.discourse.group/shawnpconroy/32/1267_2.png) [@ShawnPConroy](https://zola.discourse.group/u/ShawnPConroy)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2025, 11:35am UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/cloudflare-pages-does-not-recognize-zola-and-build-fails/1814/6 "2025-05-08T11:35:44Z")
Thanks Laffa. Oddly, my settings looks different than yours, with no build system version setting. ![Screenshot](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/zola1/original/2X/7/794701d9b52d346b412c56515c076edd485fda9c.png) ---
**Author:** ![ShawnPConroy](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/zola.discourse.group/shawnpconroy/32/1267_2.png) [@ShawnPConroy](https://zola.discourse.group/u/ShawnPConroy)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2025, 11:54am UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/cloudflare-pages-does-not-recognize-zola-and-build-fails/1814/7 "2025-05-08T11:54:20Z")
To be clear, it seems like `zola build` executes just fine: ```auto 07:46:44.278 Downloading [zola] from https://github.com/getzola/zola/releases/download/v0.20.0/zola-v0.20.0-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz to /tmp/asdf_Ax5sxgQJ/zola-v0.20.0-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz 07:46:44.323 [removed download info] 07:46:45.458 Creating bin directory 07:46:45.459 Cleaning previous binaries 07:46:45.462 Extracting archive 07:46:45.869 Copying binary 07:46:46.228 Building site... 07:46:46.272 Checking all internal links with anchors. 07:46:46.276 > Successfully checked 0 internal link(s) with anchors. 07:46:46.277 -> Creating 18 pages (0 orphan) and 25 sections 07:46:46.769 Done in 541ms. 07:46:46.770 07:46:46.773 Success: Build command completed ``` But the deploy fails. What do you have as the deploy command? I don’t have an ‘build output’ setting. ---
**Author:** ![ShawnPConroy](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/zola.discourse.group/shawnpconroy/32/1267_2.png) [@ShawnPConroy](https://zola.discourse.group/u/ShawnPConroy)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2025, 12:06pm UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/cloudflare-pages-does-not-recognize-zola-and-build-fails/1814/8 "2025-05-08T12:06:39Z")
I seem to have made a mistake before. I was under the belief that ‘Zola’ was not in the Framework Present list. Having remade a page from scratch, I can now have it deploy.