All four arr roots live: /tv, /movies via API; /music, /books created after
v1 validator layers peeled back (quality/metadata profile ids must reference
existing profiles; v1 has no /api/v1/profile endpoint). Auth pitfall: the
literal AuthenticationRequired=Disabled string throws DryIoc.ScopedItemException
in v1 AuthorizationMiddleware on every request — the valid no-auth state is
ABSENCE of the key. Fixed live on four containers, verified boot clean.
Sonarr/Radarr root folders created via API (201). Lidarr/Readarr deferred to
first-run wizard (v1 validators demand quality-profile ids that don't exist
yet). Root cause of the write failures: LSIO PUID=1000 under rootless podman
maps to host uid 101000 — a phantom user owning nothing; PUID=0 maps to the
host user that owns every media dir.
Verified live: indexers->Prowlarr->per-arr QBittorrent download clients with
category routing. Readarr's client parked (qB proxy auth defect in abandoned
upstream). EZTV/1337x parked with reason (CloudFlare-blocked at this egress);
Nyaa/sukebei/RuTor/Byrutor/YTS passed live tests and are enabled. Prowlarr v2
Applications rows now carry real arr baseUrl+apiKeys; before this every sync
attempt threw NullConfig in GetIndexerMappings.
Verified live: AuthenticationMethod=None + AuthenticationRequired=Enabled on
all five arrs; unauthenticated API probes return 401 both locally and through
the vhosts. Also records the as-built divergences (entropy mounts, LA timezone,
readarr tag pin, prowlarr mount fix) that supersede the design compose.
Kestrel rejects the h2c upgrade preface; Caddy surfaced that as a 502 per
request while the backend answered 200 on plain HTTP/1.1 from Caddy's network.
Contrast recorded: Plex PMS needs the TLS transport, Jellyfin needs none.
The page claimed an env-var interface (COPAY_PASS/COPAY_MODE) and a /data
volume convention that this image does not implement: the ac edition consumes
accounts and volumes as argv flags (-a USER:PASS, -v SRC:DST:PERMS), serves
the LUKS array at /w, and answers HTTP 500 with its own error page when zero
volumes are configured. Image ref corrected to copyparty-ac (bare latest tag
does not exist on ghcr).
Live-verified 2026-08-29: plexmediaserver.service is an enabled native
systemd unit on Dankserver (not a quadlet; updates via apt, not deploy.sh),
and tautulli runs as a snap with no auth wall on 0.0.0.0:8181. The hunt list
named both; neither had a page. Index linked per the docs-completeness seam.
The policy must ALLOW Anubis's own endpoints before the challenge-all rule
or the challenge challenges itself: browsers POST-solve via make-challenge
then GET-navigate pass-challenge, and a challenged answer renders as the
browser's own fetch-failure error page. Non-JS clients never reach the
verify step, which is why every curl probe looked green while every human
hit a wall. Also records that v1.13.0's valid action verbs are
ALLOW/CHALLENGE/DENY (ACCEPT crash-looped the unit on first deploy).
The forward_auth target /outpost.goauthentik.io/auth/caddy does not exist
in authentik 2026.8 (verified live: 404 for every header combination; the
URL tree has no outpost auth prefix at all — the outpost worker dials back
to core over ws/outpost/<uuid>/ instead). Unauthenticated subrequests got
404, Caddy treated >=400 as 'not authenticated' and redirected browsers to
the dead path — users saw authentik's own Not-Found page.
Fix: guarded vhosts now proxy the whole request through authentik-server:9000
with X-authentik-meta-outpost/-provider/-app headers (the exact header set
this build's Traefik controller emits, adapted for Caddy). Unauthenticated
clients get the login flow served in place; once a session exists,
authentik proxies on to the provider's internal_host — now
http://caddy:8017, a new post-auth internal listener that routes straight to
the app. The chain terminates; nothing dials back into authentik.
Live DB changes applied alongside (postgres is the source of truth):
provider pk=1 authentication_flow=default-authentication-flow (was NULL —
the actual cause of the 404s) and internal_host=http://caddy:8017 (was
self-referential http://authentik-server:9000).
Replaces the pre-Anubis direct-routing diagram with the live chain:
Caddy TLS -> Anubis :8923 verify -> accepted traffic back to Caddy's
internal listener :8016, where per-vhost routing resumes and Authentik's
embedded outpost gates wrapped apps via forward_auth. Guarded set
(homepage, search, hermes, prometheus, romm, files) and the
exempt-by-construction set (auth, plex, gitea git paths, grafana) are
listed explicitly. Access Policy bullet updated: basic auth was replaced
by the challenge-then-forward_auth layering.
Three compounding deploy-handler bugs found by live deployment:
- podman image exists/pull used a mixed-case ghcr.io ref that podman's
reference parser rejects before any network I/O (repository name must be
lowercase); all refs now lowercase — ghcr resolves case-insensitively.
- the unit runs the image under a localhost/ alias tag: this host's podman
5.7 quadlet path fails container create with 'image not known' for
registry-prefixed refs even when present in storage (verified live).
- the health probe was shell-form and the distroless ko-build image has no
shell; HealthCmd is now a JSON exec-form array, which passes through the
quadlet generator's argv assembly verbatim.
Tests updated to assert the alias-tag reality plus the pull guard.
All in-repo path references (AGENTS.md, README, old scripts, report artifacts,
test code paths) rewritten in the same commit; focused-test map extended for
.gitignore, old/scripts/*, dankclaw/comfyui/*, and report/* per this repo's
own convention ('add one before committing'). Obsidian wikilinks are
title-based and unaffected.
Frank