[Sites] pnpm Turborepo monorepo — stuck on FINALIZING stage like for hours.*

deployment seems to never finish.
Testing Appwrite Sites with a standard pnpm Turborepo monorepo (npx create-turbo@latest). Repo: https://github.com/saitrogen/turborepo-monorepo-

Stack: Next.js 16.1.5, pnpm 9.0.0, Node ≥18.

Issue 1 — SSR bundler expects next.config. at repo root (monorepo gotcha)*

First attempt failed during "Bundling for SSR":

mv: can't rename '/usr/local/build/next.config.*': No such file or directory
Build archive was not created at /mnt/code/code.tar.gz

In a monorepo, next.config.js lives inside each app subfolder (web, docs), not the repo root(at leat in my knowledge- the starter came like that). Workaround: added a minimal next.config.js at repo root.

Issue 2 — Site deployed "Active" but times out on every request

After fixing Issue 1, the build succeeded and Appwrite reported deployment as Active. But visiting the URL returned a timeout on every request. Root cause found in build logs:

Fix applied: Added output: 'standalone' to all next.config.js files (root + both apps). With standalone mode, Next.js generates a self-contained server.js in .next/standalone/ that doesn't need node_modules at runtime.

results: still the same [deployed but not reachable,stuck on finalizing]

Current Appwrite Site settings for docs:

Root directory: / (repo root)
Install: pnpm install --frozen-lockfile
Build: pnpm -C apps/docs build
Output: ./apps/docs/.next
Rendering: SSR

Questions for the team:

• Is output: 'standalone' required for Next.js SSR on Appwrite Sites, or is this a monorepo-specific issue?
• Is the next.config.* at repo root requirement documented anywhere for monorepos?
• Anything else needed to make pnpm Turborepo monorepos work on Sites?

i just wann make this work... help

please help i am student (ug ) i was actually going to introduce appwrite to class since appwrite is simple (not so bulky ) it just works simply. but now i am stuck
asked help from ai , he couldnt figure it out..

Standalone not required

It seems you are getting timed out.
Try increasing resources.
In the settings

And it also kind of happens to me the site times out just after a deployment is created.

first the finilzing has to complete right? its never complete for mono repo setup

tthats the problem , the higher was like 7K minutes which arround 5 days

see

Probably a bug which causes this.
Someone reported this. I dont know if they are working on it.

is there any way bro we can deploye monorepo ?
i use turbo with this setup

You should be able to.
But I dont know how.
I saw many people use this for functions. Site shares a similar infra like function.
Wait till someone with knowledge replies.
Or ask in #channel

I got the solution

TL;DR: If your Appwrite Sites deployment builds successfully but gets stuck at "Finalizing" forever —...

https://dev.to/saitrogen/how-i-fixed-nextjs-deployments-on-appwrite-sites-with-turborepo-monorepo-3pld

It's a workaround,