fix(deploy): close the POSTGRES_PASSWORD trap that broke a fresh deploy either way
README step 2 said to set "DOMAIN, JWT_SECRET, ADMIN_PASSWORD_HASH, EVENT_NAME, etc." -- POSTGRES_PASSWORD was not in that list. .env.example said to set it and keep it in sync with DATABASE_URL. The two documents disagreed, and both readings ended badly. Branch A, README verbatim: the stack came up GREEN and healthy on CHANGE_ME_use_a_strong_password -- a database credential published in the public repo. The production secret guard covered JWT_SECRET and ADMIN_PASSWORD_HASH, and nothing anywhere looked at the Postgres password. Branch B, .env.example verbatim: a permanent restart loop, "password authentication failed for user eventsnap". The guard's own design made Branch B near-certain. It stops the APP on the first `docker compose up -d` -- but not the `db` service in that same command, which initialises its data directory and bakes in whatever password was in .env at that moment. POSTGRES_PASSWORD is honoured ONLY at initdb. So the intended recovery -- see the refusal, fix your secrets, boot again -- was exactly the sequence that broke it. Nothing in the error named the cause, and the remedy (`down -v`) is both unguessable and the one command you must never run once real data exists. Three changes, which have to ship together: the guard alone would just move operators out of Branch A and into Branch B. - The guard now rejects a placeholder DATABASE_URL in production (the password rides in that URL, which is what the app actually reads). Branch A can no longer boot. - It reports EVERY unset secret in one message instead of returning on the first. Fixing two secrets used to cost two boot cycles, on a stack where Caddy waits on the unhealthy app throughout, and each avoidable cycle is another chance to reach for -v. - A 28P01 handler in db.rs turns the unguessable failure into a self-explaining one: it names the initdb semantics, gives `down -v` with an explicit "deletes db + media + exports, no undo", and gives the ALTER ROLE alternative for when data already exists. Docs: step 2 now names POSTGRES_PASSWORD and says every secret must be set BEFORE the first up; the troubleshooting block covers the auth-failure loop and both remedies. Also replaces htpasswd (apache2-utils -- not on a stock VPS) with `docker run --rm caddy:2-alpine caddy hash-password`, an image the stack already pulls, in README, .env.example and the guard's own message. Verified the output ($2a$14) against the shipped $2y$12 example. Verified on a real Postgres, not just in tests: Branch A refuses and names DATABASE_URL; all three placeholders report in one boot; a volume initialised with one password and connected to with another prints the diagnostic; an unrelated connect failure (dead port) stays silent. 8 unit tests, including that non-prod ignores all of it so the e2e stack is unaffected. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# ── Database ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
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# Set a strong password and keep it in sync between DATABASE_URL and
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# POSTGRES_PASSWORD. Generate one with: openssl rand -hex 24
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#
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# SET THIS BEFORE THE FIRST `docker compose up -d`. Postgres reads POSTGRES_PASSWORD
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# only when it initialises its data directory, on that very first boot. Change it
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# afterwards and the app authenticates with the new password against a volume still
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# holding the old one — a permanent restart loop ("password authentication failed").
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# The only ways out are restoring the old password or `docker compose down -v`, which
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# deletes the database, the media and the exports. In production the app refuses to
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# boot while this is still the placeholder below, so it cannot be missed by accident.
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DATABASE_URL=postgres://eventsnap:CHANGE_ME_use_a_strong_password@db:5432/eventsnap
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POSTGRES_USER=eventsnap
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POSTGRES_PASSWORD=CHANGE_ME_use_a_strong_password
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@@ -30,7 +38,9 @@ JWT_SECRET=change_me_to_a_random_64_byte_hex_string
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SESSION_EXPIRY_DAYS=30
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# Admin dashboard password (bcrypt hash).
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# Generate with: htpasswd -bnBC 12 "" yourpassword | tr -d ':\n'
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# Generate with an image the stack already pulls (htpasswd needs apache2-utils, which
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# a stock VPS does not have):
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# docker run --rm caddy:2-alpine caddy hash-password --plaintext 'yourpassword'
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# IMPORTANT: keep the SINGLE QUOTES. A bcrypt hash is full of `$` (e.g. $2b$12$…$…),
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# and both Docker Compose's env_file interpolation and dotenvy's variable substitution
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# would otherwise eat the `$…` segments (reading them as unset vars) and corrupt the
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