API Error: 500 while pubishing R-Quarto Webiste to Quarto Pub

Hello- I am just trying to create a quarto website using R Studio and Quarto Pub.

I was able to download all the packages and rendered the application locally. I am now trying to deploy it in Quarto-pub and I used quarto publish quarto-pub and I was able to establish a session with QuartoPub

I hope someone might be able to help me with this below API 500 errors coming when trying to publish a qmd to quarto pubs. The quarto files are rendering successfully but the issue is happening during this step: Preparing to publish site

I am using a personal PC Windows 11 computer with administrative privileges.

Here is the error:
[>] Creating quarto-pub site

Rendering for publish:

[1/4] about.qmd

processing file: about.qmd

output file: about.knit.md

WARNING: Unable to resolve link target: blog.qmd
[2/4] index.qmd
WARNING: Unable to resolve link target: blog.qmd
WARNING: Unable to resolve link target: blog.qmd
[3/4] projects\Project\index.qmd
WARNING: Unable to resolve link target: blog.qmd
[4/4] projects.qmd
WARNING: Unable to resolve link target: blog.qmd

[>] Preparing to publish site
ERROR: API Error: 500 - Internal Server Error

Stack trace:
at QuartoPubClient.uploadDeployFile (file:///C:/Program%20Files/Quarto/bin/quarto.js:102992:23)
at eventLoopTick (ext:core/01_core.js:183:11)
at async file:///C:/Program%20Files/Quarto/bin/quarto.js:102096:13
at async withSpinner (file:///C:/Program%20Files/Quarto/bin/quarto.js:75275:16)
at async handlePublish (file:///C:/Program%20Files/Quarto/bin/quarto.js:102089:5)
at async publishSite (file:///C:/Program%20Files/Quarto/bin/quarto.js:106492:38)
at async publish6 (file:///C:/Program%20Files/Quarto/bin/quarto.js:106711:61)
at async doPublish (file:///C:/Program%20Files/Quarto/bin/quarto.js:106671:13)
at async publishAction (file:///C:/Program%20Files/Quarto/bin/quarto.js:106703:13)
at async Command.fn (file:///C:/Program%20Files/Quarto/bin/quarto.js:106659:9)

Note: I even tried to create a default website that is generated when we click (RStudio->New Project->Quarto Website). Same issue is happening even with that default code. Can someone help me fix this??