The browser hard-required API_ORIGIN, so every move of the server — tailnet
today, the 192.168.1.0 office LAN later, a temporary demo domain in between —
meant editing the deploy env and redeploying. Worse, an http:// API origin on a
page served over TLS is blocked outright as mixed active content, which is what
broke the demo on https://jorgecuadros.freakma.com.
The browser now derives the origin from window.location the way a PHP app
would: same host on port 3001 over plain HTTP, or the same-origin /api path
under https (the reverse proxy strips the prefix). API_ORIGIN survives as an
optional override for a deployment that genuinely splits the two hosts, and SSR
still reads process.env because a derived origin is browser-only.
WEB_ORIGIN becomes a comma-separated list to match: one deployment is now
reached under several origins, and a credentialed fetch from an unlisted one
gets no CORS headers and fails.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Prod came up with nobody able to log in, in two separate ways.
1. No sign-in account exists. `prisma migrate deploy` creates tables, never
rows, and nothing in the deploy path seeds one — deliberately, since making
an administrator should not be a side effect of shipping code. But
apps/api/scripts was not in the runtime image either, so the only way to
create the first account was to run the script from a developer machine
against a production DATABASE_URL. Ship scripts/ in the image so it can be
run on the host with docker exec. Still never run automatically.
2. Login could not establish a session at all. cookie.secure followed NODE_ENV,
the image sets NODE_ENV=production, and the app is served over plain HTTP —
express-session then silently emits NO Set-Cookie header. POST /auth/login
still answered 200 with the full user object, no session was created, every
later request 403'd, and the UI would have looped back to /login. It reads
as an auth bug and is really a transport mismatch.
The flag is now driven by SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE, still defaulting to
NODE_ENV. An EMPTY value counts as unset rather than false, because compose
turns an absent `${SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE:-}` into the empty string and the
naive check would have quietly dropped Secure on any deployment that merely
passed the variable through.
galactus sets it to "false". That is acceptable ONLY because the host is
reachable exclusively over Tailscale, so WireGuard already encrypts the
wire. It must go back to "true" when the app is served over TLS or exposed
off-tailnet; behind a TLS-terminating proxy, set trust proxy instead.
Verified against live prod: seeded an admin, POST /auth/login returns 200 with
full ADMIN abilities, a wrong password is rejected with 401, and no Set-Cookie
was present before this change.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Next.js + NestJS + Prisma (MySQL) monorepo replacing the legacy PHP
internal app. Includes a session-based auth module with Argon2 password
hashing and global input validation (replacing the old app's SQL
injection and plaintext password comparison), the full target Prisma
schema for customers/insurance/utilities/shared ledger/bank register,
Docker Compose + Dockerfiles, and an Access-to-staging migration
pipeline (migration/) already run against the real source databases.
See PLAN.md and RESUME.md for the full architecture and session history.
rmancinasandClaude Opus 5