Soft 404 issue on Google Search Console (live test url)

nuxt4

Hello!

I’m trying to get the public card deck pages on our Nuxt 4 site (https://ilove.cards) indexed.

Google keeps reporting a soft 404 on all public deck URLs. For example:
https://ilove.cards/explore/decks/6bd1b254-9f72-4e8e-88dd-fa7378cb5ef6

When I visit the page myself or curl the URL, everything looks correct.

I recently pushed a fix and, when I disable JavaScript, I can now see the full deck. So SSR seems to be sending the content. But Google Search Console’s live test still receives the generic Nuxt “Something went wrong (500)” page with no deck markup at all, so the URL shows up as a soft 404.

Render’s logs show nothing, and I’m not sure how to reproduce this locally since all my tests return the full content.

If anyone has ideas on what could cause GSC to get a 500 during SSR, or knows a good way to debug this kind of Nuxt 4 SSR issue, I’d really appreciate the help.

Thanks!

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