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fabi faf2e62a29 fix(deploy): route /health in production, and actually apply Caddyfile changes
Two defects in the update procedure I wrote last round, both of which make a
successful-looking deploy a lie.

1. The documented health check could never pass.

`curl -fsS https://DOMAIN/health` 404s against a perfectly healthy production
stack. The backend registers /health on its ROOT router, not under /api/v1, and
the production Caddyfile proxies only /api/* and /media/* — so /health fell
through to the SvelteKit catch-all, which has no such route and returns its 404
page. With -f, curl exits 22 and the `&& echo` never runs. My own gloss
("Anything other than ok means check the logs") then sent the operator chasing a
phantom outage.

e2e/Caddyfile.test has carried `reverse_proxy /health app:3000` since it was
written — precisely because the catch-all would otherwise swallow it. Production
never did. Per the fix-the-gap-not-the-doc call, production gets the same line,
and /health joins the no-store matcher so a cached response can't report the last
known state instead of the current one. Verified by running the production
Caddyfile against the real backend: /health -> 200 "ok", Cache-Control: no-store,
with /api/v1/event and / unaffected.

2. The sequence never reloaded Caddy, so a Caddyfile-only change was dropped.

`--build` only rebuilds services with a `build:` section, and caddy is a pinned
upstream image. Compose decides whether to recreate a container from its config
hash, which covers the mount SPECIFICATION but not the mounted file's CONTENTS —
so a git pull that changes ./Caddyfile produces no delta, Compose reports
`Running`, and Caddy serves its old config indefinitely. Exit code 0 throughout.

Round 1's iOS download fix (137c4ee) is exactly this shape: Caddyfile plus four
e2e files, so 100% of its production effect is in that one file. Following the
README to the letter deployed it, showed both image IDs changing, and left iOS
downloads broken.

Demonstrated rather than assumed — added a probe header to a Caddyfile, ran the
old sequence (`up -d --build`): header absent, change silently dropped. Ran the
new step 4 (`up -d --force-recreate caddy`): header served.

`--force-recreate` rather than `restart` or `caddy reload` because the bind mount
is resolved to an inode at container-create time and git pull replaces the file
rather than editing in place, so a restart can re-read the stale content — the
exact failure I hit in round 1 when `caddy reload` didn't pick up an edit.

Also rewrites the "db and caddy are untouched … so data volumes survive" sentence.
I wrote it as reassurance; "caddy is untouched" was the bug.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-28 22:34:01 +02:00

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