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>
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