Hi everyone. Lately I've been wanting to publish a public static website that's in a private repository of mine (hosted on gitlab.com). I already did that in the past once and supposed that it wouldn't be a problem for me.

However, now, GitLab keeps telling me "Access Control is enabled for this Pages website; only authorized users will be able to access it. To make your website publicly available, navigate to your project's Settings > General > Visibility and select Everyone in pages section", and when I do these exact steps, nothing changes and the message keeps showing up for some reason. I tried waiting a few hours and fiddling with the visibility fields but nothing works.

When I checked on my older project to compare fields, I noticed that the pages' visibility was "Only Project Members" though it was still accessible on other computers and on a private window without logging in, but I once miss-clicked on "Save" and now the message above keeps popping up on this repository too, and, of course, the previously-public pages are now private, even though I checked "Everyone" on "Pages Visibility" there.

The documentation also shares this YouTube video and I noticed the subcategories on Visibility was "Pages access control" here while it is "Pages" on my computer. I wonder if the name change broke something but I can't tell much about it. I tried to check on the issues list and haven't seen anyone talk about that.

Is there anything I can do to make my pages public?

Thanks a lot.