PublicSiteGate let anyone through on a bare Auth::guard('operator')->check(),
which stays true for a disabled operator's live session — disabling
someone does not sign them out, so it never stopped this gate from
showing them the real site indefinitely, even though EnsureAdmin
already treats them as inactive. Now requires the same thing EnsureAdmin
does: an active operator holding a console role.
Chosen to merely ignore an invalid operator session here rather than log
it out. This gate only decides what one request sees; logging out would
ripple into whatever else that session is doing (a concurrent console
tab, mid-task), a bigger side effect than a visibility check exists to
have. EnsureAdmin sets the precedent — it also rejects a disabled
operator per request without touching their session.
The hostname guard, the network allowlist and the public-site switch each
decided for themselves, by testing the path against admin/*. That works only
while the console sits under /admin. It is also a trap: the moment the console
moves to the root of its own hostname, PublicSiteGate stops recognising it, and
with the public site hidden the console answers 503 to the very person trying
to sign in and switch it back on. The guard does not fail loudly — it silently
stops matching.
AdminArea is now the single answer. It has two modes and no third: a console
hostname is configured, in which case the console IS that host and answers at
its root; or nothing is configured, in which case the console stays under
/admin on any host exactly as before, so upgrading cannot lock anyone out of a
system that was working.
RestrictAdminHost gains the half it was missing. Binding console routes to a
hostname does not stop the customer routes from answering there too, because
they are registered without one — so the console's hostname would still serve
portal pages wherever the paths did not collide. It now enforces both
directions, with the endpoints both sides genuinely share written out as a list
rather than inferred.
Nothing changes yet for an installation with no ADMIN_HOSTS set, which is every
development machine and every fresh checkout.
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The gate exempts admin/* so the console keeps working, but /admin sends a guest
to /login and /login is not the console — so with the site hidden and no VPN
yet, an operator cannot sign in to flip the switch back. Found while bringing
up the live server.
The mechanism for it already exists and is the right one: TRUSTED_RANGES. What
does NOT work is exempting the login flow by hostname, which was the obvious
patch — a Host header is chosen by the caller, so one forged header would have
lifted the gate for every route, portal included. Codex caught that; the comment
now says why the narrow-looking option is the wrong one.
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Two from Codex:
- A throttled instance kept its NIC limit into the new month: the new period
row starts unthrottled, so neither branch of enforce() fired and nothing ever
took the limit off. A customer would have stayed slow through a month they
had already paid for.
- PublicSiteGate exempted livewire/* wholesale. That endpoint is shared by the
console and the portal, so a signed-in customer could keep driving portal
components — billing included — while the portal was supposed to be offline.
Operators pass the normal check anyway, which is all the console needed.
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While the product is still being built, the marketing site and the customer
portal should not be reachable — but they must stay reachable for us.
- A toggle in the console (site.manage, Owner/Admin) stored in a new
app_settings table, because this has to be flippable without a deploy.
- Outsiders get a placeholder with 503 + noindex, not 200: a 200 invites search
engines to index the placeholder as the site's content, which is far harder
to undo than to prevent.
- Anyone on the management VPN, and any signed-in operator, sees the real site.
The console, Livewire's endpoint, the Stripe webhook and the health check are
always reachable — otherwise the switch could only be flipped once.
- robots.txt is generated by the app and follows the switch. It had to stop
being a static file: nginx short-circuited it and Laravel's stock file said
'Disallow:' with an empty value, so crawlers were never told anything.
- Settings reads fall back to the default when the table is unavailable. The
gate reads one on every request, so a deploy running new code before migrate
would otherwise answer the entire site with a 500.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
nexxo
Claude