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.
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CI caught it: both rendered through @vite, so a missing manifest threw a view
exception instead of a page. That is not a test problem — the update page is
shown precisely while the application is mid-deploy or freshly installed, which
is exactly when the manifest may be absent. Both carry their own small
stylesheet now and render with nothing built at all.
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Three things that bit us on every deploy:
- artisan down now renders a branded page that says an update is running and
reloads itself, instead of Laravel's bare 503.
- A page left open across a deploy carries a Livewire snapshot and CSRF token
the new code rejects — the user got "419 Page Expired" and a dead interface.
A 419 from a /livewire/ request now reloads the page; the session is still
valid, so that is all it takes. Hooked at the fetch layer rather than through
Livewire's request hook, whose failure callback is not invoked for this case
in the installed version — verified against a real 419 in the browser, not a
simulated one.
- Vite no longer empties its output directory: wiping it is what left an open
page without its stylesheet mid-deploy, which is the "design is completely
broken" symptom. update.sh also rebuilds the caches with optimize:clear +
optimize instead of leaving them half-warm.
Plus CI: .gitea/workflows/tests.yml (Pest + asset build, and a tested- tag only
on a green main) and an opt-in act_runner service under the ci profile.
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