diff --git a/.github/workflows/docs.yml b/.github/workflows/docs.yml
index 5783ce4bb0..2b3736a586 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/docs.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/docs.yml
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ jobs:
       pages: write
       id-token: write
     environment:
-      name: docs-${{ inputs.environment }}
+      name: docs-${{ inputs.environment || 'next' }}
       url: ${{ steps.deployment.outputs.page_url }}
     concurrency:
       group: pages
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ jobs:
       # we never want to deploy with no version set
       # stop the deployment here
       - name: Version not set
-        if: ${{ inputs.version }} == ''
+        if: "${{ inputs.version || 'v1' == '' }} || ${{ inputs.version || 'v1' == '0.0.1-dev' }}"
         run: exit 1
       - uses: cloudflare/pages-action@v1
         id: deployment