Link to "versions" not working anymore?

In Workers, I used to be able to click on the version number and it would open the site instantly - well, I'm pretty sure that was the case - but now it's not working?

Did something change on Cloudflare? is this a bug? is this expected? or maybe I'm being gaslit here and it never worked this way???

I also used to get a link back in my cli that I could click, and since wrangler version 4.30 - there's no link

*p.s. also - why is there's a "workers" or "pages" tag

Walshy•8/18/25, 11:20 AM

It looks like you don't have preview urls enabled

Walshy•8/18/25, 11:21 AM

In your Wrangler config, you can enable them with preview_urls = truepreview_urls = true

Walshy•8/18/25, 11:21 AM

and there's no workers/pages tag as they have dedicated channels #workers-help / #pages-help

gdesmedt1OP•8/18/25, 11:23 AM

Strange, let me see if one of my PR's killed my preview_urls = truepreview_urls = true in the jsonc file.

Thanks for getting back to me - and will post in the relevant channel next time! (sorry!)

Walshy•8/18/25, 11:28 AM

Also possible you're now using Durable Objects

Walshy•8/18/25, 11:28 AM

as per https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/configuration/previews/#limitations we do not generate preview URLs if using durable objects currently

gdesmedt1OP•8/18/25, 11:31 AM

ah - I was about to write and explain that previews ARE on, but yes - dang it - I've just moved over to DO's!

Ah, that's - that's sad - very sad - haha - ok, oh boy, this is gonna be fun.

Do you know if it's part of the roadmap? or am I going to need to find a permanent solution to this?

I'm guessing the only possible solution today is to spin up "dev" worker - and then move from dev to prod and ensure to keep databases and all 'nsync? Or do you know of any other work-arounds?

gdesmedt1OP•8/18/25, 11:32 AM

mmm, maybe they can both reference the same database - that will help? or maybe that's bad practice as I may need to test migrations on the "dev" worker to ensure it works on production.

Maybe this is for the best

simpson•8/18/25, 8:35 PM

Preview URLS don't work with Durable Objects right now, so that's why you stopped seeing them. It's not a bug - just a limitation.

simpson•8/18/25, 8:37 PM

Best workaround is to set up a separate dev Worker:
-point it to its Durable Object namespace if you want safe testing,
-Or share the same namespace with prod if you need the same data(but that's risky)
No official timeline yet for Do preview support, so the dev/prod split is the way to go for now.

gdesmedt1OP•8/20/25, 6:39 AM

Thanks TakaDev92 - I've decided to create a completely seperate environment as a staging env, with it's own DB and DO etc etc. In the long run this will be a better solution anyway. But I do love the power of the preview URL's so hope support for Previews with DO's do come soon

simpson•8/25/25, 5:54 PM

That sounds like a solid approach.

Link to "versions" not working anymore?

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