powergate: I Made A Hot Storage Deal And I Still Can't Access The Content on IPFS

I made a hot storage deal and I still can’t access the content on IPFS. The content that I put into this deal is the directory of a static website. When I double click the index.html file in Windows Explorer, it opens perfectly in Firefox so I know the website works. I tried to access it with https://ipfs.io/ipfs/<CID> and https://<CID>.ipfs.dweb.link but they both failed. I did the deal perfectly. I did it exactly to spec for a hot storage deal which I believe is the way to get your content on IPFS. Here’s what I did to make my storage deal.

My config file aka config-new.json looks like this.

{
  "hot":  {
    "enabled":  true,
    "allowUnfreeze":  true,
    "unfreezeMaxPrice":  "100000000000000000",
    "ipfs":  {
      "addTimeout":  "900"
    }
  },
  "cold":  {
    "enabled":  true,
    "filecoin":  {
      "replicationFactor":  "2",
      "dealMinDuration":  "518400",
      "excludedMiners":  [],
      "trustedMiners":  ["<Miner Id>", "<Miner Id>", "<Miner Id>", "<Miner Id>", "<Miner Id>",],
      "countryCodes":  [],
      "renew":  {
        "enabled":  false,
        "threshold":  "0"
      },
      "address":  "<my filecoin address>",
      "maxPrice":  "100000000000000000",
      "fastRetrieval":  true,
      "dealStartOffset":  "8640",
      "verifiedDeal":  false
    }
  },
  "repairable":  false
}

1. git clone https://github.com/textileio/powergate.git
2. cd powergate/
3. cd docker/
4. nano docker-compose.yaml where I added "[“lotus”, “daemon”, “–import-snapshot”, "https://fil-chain-snapshots-fallback.s3.amazonaws.com/mainnet/minimal_finality_stateroots_latest.car"]" between lines 32 and 33.
5. make up
6. Waited for the node to finish importing and then syncing.
7. ^C then make down then deleted the line "[“lotus”, “daemon”, “–import-snapshot”, "https://fil-chain-snapshots-fallback.s3.amazonaws.com/mainnet/minimal_finality_stateroots_latest.car"]" from docker-compose.yaml
8. make up
9. Now that the node was running I typed cd .. so I was in the repo’s root directory, then make install-pow
10. with the pow command in my GOPATH I typed pow to make sure pow was linked fine to powd. It was.
11. pow admin users create
12. copied the token and ran export POW_TOKEN=<token copied to here>
13. Then pow wallet addrs and funded the address
14. I went to the directory behind the folder of my static website which is about 5GB in size.
15. I typed pow data stage <my-static-site-folder>
16. After it was finished staging and printed out the CID I typed pow config apply --watch <CID> -c custom-080121-hot-config.json waited a long time and it worked! I had a Filecoin deal that was duplicated across 2 miners.

So I now have a storage deal but the directory still isn’t on IPFS. Why won’t it work?