The vault's mail.password row is no longer deleted by this migration at
all, in either direction: deleting it unconditionally destroyed a real
password whenever MAIL_USERNAME was empty (nowhere to carry it to), and
even on a successful carry-over a later rollback had nothing left to fall
back to. Reproduced both against real MariaDB, along with a migrations-
table drift that crashed a retry on the mailboxes.key unique constraint —
fixed with Mailbox::firstOrNew() and a transaction around each direction.
down() now goes through the new Settings::forget() instead of a raw
delete, so it stops leaving the settings cache holding what it just
removed. A skipped .env password (SECRETS_KEY still unset) now prints an
operator-visible line instead of migrating clean and failing silently
later. Host/port that resolve to config/mail.php's own placeholder
defaults are treated as unset rather than as a real relay.
- update.sh recreated the app container only at the very end, so an update that
changes the PHP runtime would have installed dependencies and migrated inside
the old one.
- install.sh randomised DB_PASSWORD but left DB_ROOT_PASSWORD at the value
committed in .env.example — the same root credential on every installation,
reachable from any container on the compose network.
- Settings cached the fallback after a database failure, so one blip could
leave a hidden site publicly visible until someone cleared the cache. Only a
successful read is cached now, proven by a test that drops the table and
brings it back.
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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.
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