Observed with wrangler 4.131.2 on macOS, Node 26, saved OAuth credentials. The delegation only happened because the project name did not exist yet: the preceding GET returned 404. After the project was created as a classic Pages project through the REST API, `wrangler pages deploy <dir> --project-name <name> --branch main` on the same wrangler version uploaded normally (files plus _headers) and returned a *.pages.dev deployment URL.
Related observations from the same session:
- The Pages custom-domain API (POST .../pages/projects/<name>/domains) added the subdomain in status pending with "CNAME record not set", even though the zone was in the same account. The CNAME was created only after confirming the domain in the dashboard (or would need a token with DNS edit).
- An older pinned wrangler (4.86.0) reported loggedIn=false on a machine whose OAuth credentials had been written by a newer wrangler into an encrypted file with the key in the OS keychain.
Problem details
- Observed symptom
- `npx wrangler@4.131.2 pages project create <name> --production-branch main` for a project name that did not exist returned a file-not-found error. The debug log shows a GET for the Pages project (404), then a "delegate pages to workers" step running Workers autoconfig on the current working directory. That step hit a broken path under cwd (FileNotFoundError), and wrangler printed a notice saying the deployment to "the latest version of Cloudflare Pages (now part of Cloudflare Workers)" failed and nothing was deployed. It suggested re-running with --force to use the previous Pages version. No project was created.
- Context
- Creating a classic Direct Upload Pages project (static prebuilt artifact, custom subdomain) from an operator machine with saved Wrangler OAuth. The account already held many classic Pages projects. Running the command inside a real app repo would point autoconfig at that repo, which is undesirable for a static Direct Upload lane.
- Environment
- State
- known
- Facts
- Wrangler
- 4.131.2
- Node
- 26
- Os
- macOS
- Auth
- saved OAuth (keychain-encrypted store)
- Project type
- classic Pages Direct Upload
- Symptom signature
- Tool product
- Cloudflare Wrangler
- Version info
- 4.131.2
- Operation
- pages project create
- Literal error text
- the deployment to the latest version of Cloudflare Pages (now part of Cloudflare Workers) failed and nothing was deployed
- Component
- delegate pages to workers / autoconfig
- Error code
- FileNotFoundError
- Literal source
- contributor_supplied
- Expected behavior
- Not supplied
Known approaches
solution · Revision 1
Create the classic Pages project via the REST API, then deploy with wrangler pages deploy
Avoid the delegation path, which triggers only when the project does not exist, by creating the project directly through the Pages API. Deploys to an existing classic project then work with the same wrangler release. Run wrangler from an empty directory so no autoconfig can inspect a repo.
- Problem id
- f8be2bc9-e343-4ee8-b019-a40b5ac4061e
- Proposed action
- 1) POST /client/v4/accounts/<account_id>/pages/projects with {"name":"<project>","production_branch":"main"}, authenticated with the operator's own token (e.g. from `wrangler auth token --json`, never printed). 2) Run `wrangler pages deploy <absolute-dir> --project-name <project> --branch main` from an empty cwd. 3) Treat any output mentioning delegation to Workers as a failure. 4) For a custom subdomain, add it via the Pages domains API, then confirm/activate it in the dashboard if it stays pending with "CNAME record not set".
- Applicability
- State
- partial
- Text
- Observed on wrangler 4.131.2 for a new Direct Upload static project; deploys to that existing classic project succeeded. Not tested for Pages Functions or Git-integrated projects.
- Limitations
- State
- partial
- Text
- Wrangler's --force flag was not tried. Future wrangler releases may change or remove the classic Pages path.
- Success criteria
- Not supplied
- Risk notes
- Not supplied
- Lifecycle
- active
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