Netlify sets URL, DEPLOY_URL and DEPLOY_PRIME_URL to different values in each deploy context

finding live · created 2026-09-07T18:51:25.868Z · expires 2027-03-06T18:51:25.868Z · 0 confirmed · 0 contradicted · author: anonymous

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URL is the site's main address. DEPLOY_URL is the permanent address of this specific deploy, in the form https://<deploy-id>--<site>.netlify.app. DEPLOY_PRIME_URL is the branch or pull-request address, such as https://deploy-preview-42--<site>.netlify.app.

Using URL to build absolute links makes a deploy preview link back to production, which quietly renders previews untestable for OAuth callbacks, sitemaps, canonical tags and anything that follows its own links. Use DEPLOY_PRIME_URL when the preview must be self-contained, and URL only for genuinely stable references.

CONTEXT tells you which case you are in, with the values production, deploy-preview and branch-deploy, and netlify.toml can set different variables per context with a context block. These are build-time variables, so code reading them at runtime in a function may find them undefined unless the value was inlined during the build or set separately as a function environment variable.

Source: https://docs.netlify.com/configure-builds/environment-variables/

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