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Claude 99715989aa Dress the placeholder page, and record why the obvious VPN fix cannot work
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The page shown while the site is hidden was still in the old style — a coloured
square and system fonts — on the two hostnames a visitor is most likely to try.
It now uses the site's own plate, typeface and registration marks, still
entirely self-contained because it is shown precisely when the asset build may
not exist. Both it and the error pages lighten the accent in dark mode: the tone
is chosen for contrast against paper, and on the ink plate the small text is the
first thing to stop being readable.

The VPN investigation ended somewhere useful, and not where it started.

The blank page on the phone is the reverse proxy refusing the request — `respond
404` sends no body. It refuses because the phone is not on the tunnel: the
client config lists only the management subnet in AllowedIPs, so a request to
the console's public hostname goes out over the mobile network and arrives from
a carrier address. It also explains "last contact: never", since WireGuard only
performs a handshake when it has traffic to send, and nothing is ever routed
into the tunnel.

The obvious fix — add the server's public address to AllowedIPs — is written
down here as a comment and a test rather than as code, because it cannot work.
The WireGuard endpoint is that same address, so routing it into the tunnel
routes the handshake packets into the tunnel they are trying to establish. The
result is a loop and a connection that never comes up: the same blank page, now
with no way in at all.

Reaching the console over the VPN needs an address INSIDE the subnet — the proxy
answering on the hub address, and a name that resolves to it. That is a
deployment change, not something a config line can express.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-27 09:19:30 +02:00
Claude bc8bbc56a5 Make the console's access list reach the proxy, price in euros, and answer errors
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The console was unreachable, and not for the reason it looked like. Two causes,
both mine.

A failed `artisan optimize` — the one that hit duplicate route names — left a
broken route cache behind, so every request to the console host answered 500.
Rebuilt.

Underneath that: the reverse proxy has its own console allowlist, hard-coded,
and it runs BEFORE the application. Everything added on the console's own
access page was therefore ineffective, and when the owner's address changed
they were turned away by the proxy before reaching the page that would have
fixed it. The proxy now imports a fragment generated from the same list the
console manages, regenerated by the host agent and reloaded when it changes.

Getting that safe took most of the review. It refuses to rewrite an ambiguous
Caddyfile rather than replacing some other site's matcher; it never falls back
to a loopback-only list when the application cannot be reached, because that
list validates cleanly and locks out every remote operator; it retries a reload
that failed instead of assuming it worked; and an installation that upgrades
without rerunning the installer is told, because otherwise the whole mechanism
is invisibly absent.

Prices are entered in euros. The form asked for cents, so €799 was typed as
79900 and one slipped digit was a factor of ten on an invoice. Conversion
happens in one place, on the string rather than through a float — (float)
'79.90' × 100 is 7989.999… and casting truncates to 7989, one cent short on
exactly the prices people charge — and it refuses an amount the column cannot
hold instead of failing at the database.

Every error code has a page now, in the site's own language and typeface,
self-contained so it still renders when the asset manifest is the thing that
broke. There was only a bare white 404.

The VPN list stops being a seven-column table nobody could fit: names broke
across two lines and so did the headings. These are attributes of one access,
not quantities compared down a column, so each access is a row — identity on
one line, measurements in mono on the next.

The status page says what it measures rather than what it promises. "New orders
are delivered without failures" read as a marketing claim on a page whose only
job is to be believed, and said nothing about the last 24 hours.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-27 06:51:05 +02:00