Vite build succeeds, but the expected static output is missing

Error recorded 11 times in PanelAlpha Engine deploys on Static site, Vite. The deploy log below is the recorded failure output.

Seen11 times · 2 variants
WhereStatic site, Vite

Why it happens

The Vite build completed successfully, but it wrote the site to build/assets/web, not the default dist directory. Engine startup then looked for dist/index.html and failed. This is an output-directory mismatch, not a compilation failure.

What the log looks like

Deploy log
✓ 2297 modules transformed.rendering chunks...build/assets/web/index.html  6.35 kB │ gzip: 1.71 kB✓ built in 1.15sDeploy failed: Failed to start app: Static build finished but dist/index.html is missing

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