Caddy SORTS top-level directives, so a 'rewrite' runs before 'basicauth'.
The rewrite changed /admin/ to /admin.html, and the path-based auth matchers
then saw /admin.html (which matched the family 'not path /admin/*' block, not
the operator '/admin/*' block) — so the operator password was checked against
the family hash and 401'd.
Serve each page from its own 'handle' block (which preserves order, so the
auth is checked on the original path before any file rewrite):
- handle /admin* : operator (frank) only, try_files /admin.html
- handle @data : shared data + assets, family (dank) OR operator (frank), so
the admin page's fetches of services.json/status.json reuse the operator
credential
- handle : everything else (the user page), family (dank)
'@admin rewrite ...' is parsed as a one-liner matcher DEFINITION, so it
re-defined @admin and Caddy rejected the config ('matcher is defined more
than once'), crash-looping the container. Per the Caddyfile matcher docs the
matcher token is the first ARGUMENT after the directive: 'rewrite @admin
/admin.html'. The '*' disambiguator is only needed pre-2.8.0. Validated the
rendered config against the porkbun image: 'Valid configuration'.
Two real bugs found on the first production deploy:
- /admin/ 404'd: file_server looked for /srv/homepage/admin/ (a dir), but the
page is admin.html. Add '@admin rewrite * /admin.html' so the /admin/ path
serves admin.html.
- The pages used relative refs (style.css, app.js, services.json, status.json),
which from /admin/ resolved to /admin/... (404). Add <base href="/"> so all
refs resolve to the site root on both pages.
- status.json was written 0600 (root); the checker now chmods it 0644 so Caddy
can serve it regardless of its user.
Red tests first.
- tests/homepage_caddy.bats: the homepage site block carries a root hash and
a distinct /admin/-scoped admin hash (Q18/Q38), and serves /srv/homepage.
- dankclaw/Caddyfile: the homepage block now uses named matchers -
@user (not /admin/*) with the shared hash, @admin (/admin/*) with the
operator-only hash (REPLACE_WITH_ADMIN_HASH, rendered from CADDY_ADMIN_HASH
at deploy). Both placeholders are distinct.
Frank