Static by default
How to publish a Quarto site
Quarto renders notebooks and Markdown into a finished site. Your code runs while it renders, so what gets published is plain HTML.
- Build command
- quarto render
- Folder to upload
- _site
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Build the project
Run quarto render in the project folder. This is the step Droply does not do for you: we publish finished pages, we never run your build.
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Find the output folder
The build writes a finished site to _site. That folder, not the project folder, is what gets uploaded.
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Drag it in
Drop the folder (or a ZIP of it) into Droply. It is live on an HTTPS droply.id subdomain in seconds, and re-uploading publishes a new version at the same URL.
Worth knowing about Quarto
A website project renders into
_siteby default.output-dirunderprojectin _quarto.yml changes it, and a book project writes somewhere else, so read the config rather than assuming.The code runs at render time, on your machine, not at the published address. Anything that needs a live kernel, such as a Shiny document, will not work as a static upload.
Render the whole project with
quarto render, not a single file. Rendering one document leaves the rest of the site as it was at the last full render.
Did an AI tool build this project?
Hosting an AI-generated website covers the question that comes before the build command: whether what you are holding is a single file or a project, and which of the two every tool actually hands back.