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.
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Reworked after a design consultation with Codex, which pushed back on my first
proposal in three useful ways.
Ownership and rights:
- vpn.manage split into vpn.view.all and vpn.manage.all. Seeing an access is
not managing it, and neither is holding its private key.
- Record-level rules live in VpnPeerPolicy, not in permissions: an access
belongs to a person, and ownership is what grants sight of it. Every operator
reaches the page, but sees only their own unless they may see all.
- Issuing an access is not self-service — it reaches the management network, so
it needs vpn.manage.all even for oneself.
- New Developer role: sees everything, manages nothing. Writing code does not
imply authority over other people's access.
- kind (staff|host|system) replaces a null user_id that had to mean two
different things at once.
Config storage, opt-in per access:
- Downloading is owner-only — explicitly NOT for view.all or manage.all. An
admin who needs access revokes this one and issues their own, which keeps the
record of who holds what honest.
- The password is asked on EVERY retrieval, rate-limited. Laravel's
password.confirm keeps a 15-minute session stamp, which would authorise
unlimited later downloads from an unattended browser.
- Stored under VPN_CONFIG_KEY, not APP_KEY: a leaked application key must not
also hand over the management network. Purged on revocation and when a staff
member is revoked — console taken away, tunnel left open was the worst case.
- The plaintext never enters a Livewire snapshot (the page polls every five
seconds); the component carries an opaque handle instead.
Also: copy button works without HTTPS again (navigator.clipboard only exists in
a secure context, so over http it silently did nothing), plus config download
as a file and a QR code for the mobile apps.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
DNS names are case-insensitive and Symfony's getHost() always returns lowercase,
so ADMIN_HOSTS=Admin.Example.com rejected every request and locked operators
out. Normalised in the config AND at the comparison, so the value is safe
whichever route it took in (env, cached config, runtime set).
operator()/admin() moved from RbacTest/HostManagementTest to tests/Pest.php:
they were only loaded when those files happened to be in the run, so a targeted
single-file run died on 'undefined function operator()'.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The Proxmox fleet and the operator console must never be publicly reachable. The
primary control is the reverse proxy, but nginx here is a catch-all
(server_name _), so /admin was served on EVERY hostname — a proxy
misconfiguration would expose it. ADMIN_HOSTS pins it; any other host gets 404
(not 403: a public domain must not disclose that a console exists).
Prepended to the group instead of the admin route group on purpose: route
middleware is reordered by Laravel's priority list, which runs first — a
guest would then be redirected to /login and learn the console is there. Covered
by a test for exactly that case. Empty ADMIN_HOSTS = unrestricted, so nobody is
locked out by upgrading.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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