Cross-platform hardening — removes all hardcoded /app/ paths from route files
and routes them through platform-paths.js so the app works the same way
regardless of Docker layout (single-file mount vs consolidated data dir).
Changes:
- platform-paths.js: add generatedCertsDir, pkiDir, containerUpdatesDir,
containerFrontendDir, containerAssetsDir, resolveAssetsPath()
- self-updater.js: UPDATE_URL/MIRROR_URL/CHANNEL env var overrides
- routes/ca.js: use platformPaths for cert paths and generated certs dir
- routes/services.js: use platformPaths.pkiRootCert
- routes/themes.js: derive THEMES_DIR from platformPaths.servicesFile
- routes/config/assets.js + backup.js: use resolveAssetsPath() fallback
- routes/services.js + src/app.js: use platformPaths.pkiRootCert
- server.js: HOST env var support, parse PORT as int
- src/app.js: GET /api/v1/version (public, no auth), global request timeout,
disable x-powered-by, trust proxy
- pylon/dashcaddy-pylon.js: PYLON_HOST env var, graceful shutdown on SIGTERM/SIGINT
A fresh user can now deploy with a custom Docker layout (e.g. /opt/dc/data/
as a single volume mount) and the app finds its files automatically, no env
var configuration required.
The CREDENTIALS_FILE and ENCRYPTION_KEY_FILE env vars defaulted to
__dirname/credentials.json and __dirname/.encryption-key, which works
for the standard install (where individual files are mounted to /app/)
but breaks for deployments using a consolidated data directory at
/app/data/.
Add resolveCredentialsFile() and resolveKeyFile() helpers that:
1. Honor explicit env var if set
2. Check /app/credentials.json and /app/data/credentials.json
3. Check /app/.encryption-key and /app/data/.encryption-key
4. Default to standard path for new installs
This makes DashCaddy deployable with either pattern without requiring
custom env var configuration, which is essential for general-public
reproducibility.
- Add /api/v1/monitoring/stats and /api/v1/health-checks/status to PUBLIC_ROUTES
so the frontend widget can fetch without auth
- Transform monitoring stats response from nested {cpu:{percent}} to flat
{cpu: number, memory: number, memoryUsage: number} for the widget
- Add summary {healthy, unhealthy, total} to health-checks/status response
- deploy.js: wrap logError/notification in try/catch so they never mask the original deploy error
- deploy.js: use optional chaining for error.message access
- logging.js: safeErrorMessage handles null/undefined error gracefully
- dns-providers/: adapter base class + registry with auto-discovery
- technitium.js: wraps existing Technitium API calls into adapter interface
- cloudflare.js: Cloudflare API v4 adapter (zones, records, credentials)
- rfc2136.js: RFC 2136 dynamic DNS via nsupdate (BIND, PowerDNS, etc.)
- manual.js: no-op adapter for external DNS management with instructions
- provider-dns.js: provider-aware DNS context, resolves active adapter from config
- Universal helper methods: universalCreateRecord/Delete/ResolveRecord
- All 7 route files updated to use universal methods instead of raw dns.call()
- Setup wizard: provider dropdown (Technitium, Cloudflare, RFC 2136, Manual)
- DNS template selector: added Cloudflare and External/Manual options
- Config schema: validates dns.provider field
- Capability gating on Technitium-specific endpoints (logs, restart, update)
- Backward compatible: no provider set = auto-detect (technitium if dns.ip exists)
Service categories (described in README roadmap, never wired):
- Backend: POST /services now persists category/containerId/port/ip/tailscaleOnly
- Backend: POST /services/update accepts category for in-place changes
- Frontend: category <select> in add-service modal (local + external)
- Frontend: category <select> in edit-service modal with current value
- Frontend: All Categories dropdown in service filter bar (auto-populated
from both API categories and any categories present on rendered cards)
- Frontend: colored category badge (icon + name) on service cards
- Frontend: filter auto-refreshes after buildGrid
Monitoring on main dashboard (replaces orphaned monitoring-dashboard.html):
- New monitoring-widgets.js embeds a 5-card System Overview panel above
the filter bar: Services, Containers Up, Avg CPU, Avg Memory, Health
- Pulls /api/v1/monitoring/stats + /api/v1/health-checks/status
- Auto-refreshes on DC.POLL.STATS (5s), color-coded bars (warn >=65%, bad >=85%)
Build:
- Added monitoring-widgets.js to init.js bundle in build.js
- Rebuilt dist/ bundles (core.js, features.js, init.js)
- sw.js cache version bumped automatically
- CSP hash regenerated
- Add backup_data_dir() and restore_data_dir() using rsync
- Data backed up to backups/{version}/data-backup/ alongside code
- restore_data_dir() called in all three rollback paths (build fail, restart fail, health check fail)
- Add restart_container() that does rm + run to apply new env vars
- Handle action=rollback explicitly (no new version deployment)
- Uses standalone docker build instead of compose for reliability
- Add start.sh at /opt/dashcaddy/start.sh for reboot survival
The data/ directory (services.json, config.json, credentials,
TOTP config, notifications) was never included in the update
backup. Every update wiped user data — services, licenses,
credentials — requiring manual restore.
Now the host-side updater:
- Backs up data/ alongside code files before any update
- Restores data/ on rollback (build failure, restart failure,
or health-check failure)
- openClawRoutes was mounted at root causing /status vs /openclaw/status mismatch
- ctx.docker is a typed wrapper {client,pull,...} — all calls now use docker.client.*
- templates/deploy/removal/restore sub-routers had /apps/ hardcoded in inner routes
causing double-stacking when mounted under /apps (→ /apps/apps/templates etc)
- openclaw.js: GET /status, POST /deploy, GET/POST /proxy/*, DELETE /
1. WebSocket exec auth bypass (exec.js): Require valid JWT or API key
before accepting WebSocket upgrade. Reject unauthenticated requests
with 401 before the upgrade completes.
2. Shell injection in router auto-login (session-handlers.js): Validate
baseUrl against safe hostname pattern before embedding in wget shell
command. Reject with null session if invalid.
3. Path traversal in credentials routes (services.js): Add explicit
serviceId validation (alphanumeric + dash/underscore/dot, max 100
chars) to all three credential endpoints. Removed redundant
try/catch wrapper.
4. execSync injection in CA CSR generation (ca.js): Add sanitize step
replacing any non-alphanumeric domain chars with underscore before
interpolation into shell subj argument. Redundant with existing
validation but provides defense-in-depth.
5. Auth bypass when TOTP disabled (middleware.js): Split the logic
cleanly — disabled TOTP means no auth (initial setup state), enabled
TOTP means all auth methods checked (session/JWT/API key). Removed
the sessionDuration:never conflating shortcut.
- Set Domain=.sami on session + CSRF cookies so browsers send them to all subdomains
- This fixes Caddy forward_auth returning 401 for radarr/sonarr/prowlarr
- Fix login URL concatenation bug (radarr.samilogin -> radarr.sami/login)
- Fix getSetCookie() missing from _httpsFetch/_httpFetch response objects
- Fix array/string handling for set-cookie header in session-handlers fallback
- Refactor csrf-protection to createCSRFMiddleware() factory with cookieDomain support
- Pass renewCSRFToken through middleware deps chain to TOTP route
The /api/v1/services/status endpoint (dashboard card ON/OFF) uses an
HTTPS agent to probe each service. When /app/pki/root.crt is missing
inside the container, it fell back to new https.Agent() which rejects
self-signed certificates. This caused all .sami domain probes to fail
with UNABLE_TO_GET_ISSUER_CERT_LOCALLY, making dashboard cards randomly
flip between ON and OFF depending on whether the Pylon relay responded
before the 10s deadline.
Fix: use rejectUnauthorized: false as fallback when CA cert is absent.
- Remove legacy /api/ mount; all routes now under /api/v1/ only
- Update path matchers (CSRF excludes, public routes, audit log, rate limits)
- Move standalone routes (/api/network/ips, /api/docs, /api/docs/spec) to v1
- Update openapi.yaml (110 paths), CA pages, and 4 lingering frontend files
- Add LICENSE (proprietary EULA), CHANGELOG.md (Keep a Changelog format)
- Add .gitea/workflows/ci.yml (test+lint and security audit jobs)
- Fix 9 pre-existing no-empty lint errors so CI starts green
- Drop ad-hoc scratch reports and *.bak files from repo root
All 739 jest tests pass. Lint is clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
When DashCaddy is installed without `${DASHBOARD_DIR}:/app/dashboard` bind
mounted into the container (e.g. legacy DNS2 setup where Caddy serves from
/var/www/dashcaddy-status/), the self-updater's in-container copy to
/app/dashboard was a silent no-op — leaving the dashboard stale across
self-updates, which led to CSP-hash mismatches and a broken UI.
- self-updater: new hostFrontendDir option (default `/var/www/dashcaddy-status`
on Linux, overridable via DASHCADDY_HOST_FRONTEND_DIR). When set, defer the
frontend copy to the host-side updater by passing frontendStagingDir +
frontendTargetDir in trigger.json. Now also includes `js/` in the copy list.
- dashcaddy-update.sh: read those new trigger fields and sync the dashboard
files on the host. Auto-detect fallback for older self-updaters (no fields
in trigger.json) so a single release upgrade self-heals.
- csrf-protection: skip CSRF validation on /api/system/update-notify. The
endpoint has its own X-DashCaddy-Notify-Secret auth and is only ever called
machine-to-machine; browsers never reach it. Without this, the CSRF cookie
check rejects the notify POST before the secret comparison runs.
- release.sh: the verify step piped curl into `node -p ".../dev/stdin"` which
works on Linux but blows up on Windows/git-bash. Replaced with portable
grep+sed extraction so the same script works on both publisher OSes.
- self-updater: per-instance notify secret (auto-generated), notifyAndApply()
triggers an immediate check+apply for the publishing host
- routes: POST /api/system/update-notify (X-DashCaddy-Notify-Secret gated,
added to public-routes allowlist so TOTP doesn't block machine-to-machine)
- dashcaddy-update.sh: include VERSION in backup/deploy/rollback copy lists;
belt-and-suspenders write trigger.json commit to VERSION post-deploy.
Fixes drift where /app/VERSION stayed at the old commit after self-update.
- release.sh: mirror failures are non-fatal+loud; HTTP-verify get2 after
rsync; auto-notify co-located instance via /opt/dashcaddy/updates/notify-secret
(or honour DASHCADDY_NOTIFY_TARGETS for multi-instance setups).
Dockerfile never received DASHCADDY_COMMIT at build, so /app/VERSION held
'unknown'. _isNewer then treated same-version-different-commit as newer,
making the auto-updater rebuild the container indefinitely (each rebuild
still produced commit='unknown').
- self-updater._isNewer: normalize commits; treat unknown/null/empty as no
commit info and fall back to pure version comparison
- self-updater._autoCheckAndApply + routes/updates: refuse to apply when
local version >= remote version (belt-and-suspenders)
- update-management.js: hide '(unknown)' from version label
- Dockerfile: COPY VERSION instead of writing from build arg
- VERSION: committed placeholder ('dev'); scripts/release.sh now writes
the real short SHA into the tarball's VERSION before tar-ing, so every
published release ships with an accurate commit
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Cloud backups (Dropbox / WebDAV / SFTP):
- backup-manager.js: save + load handlers per provider, credential
resolution via credentialManager, destination probe.
- routes/backups.js: /credentials/{provider} (masked GET, POST, DELETE),
/test-destination, scheduling endpoints.
- status/js/backup-restore.js: destination picker, provider-specific
credential forms, test button wired to backend probe.
- npm deps already present (dropbox 10.34.0, webdav 5.7.1,
ssh2-sftp-client 11.0.0).
Resource history:
- resource-monitor.js: three-tier rollup storage — raw 10s samples
(7-day retention), hourly rollups (30-day), daily rollups
(365-day). getHistoryByRange() auto-selects the appropriate tier.
- routes/monitoring.js: /monitoring/history/:containerId now supports
startTime/endTime range mode (legacy ?hours=N still works).
- status/js/resource-monitor.js + dashboard.css: "History" tab with
range buttons (1h/24h/7d/30d/1y), SVG sparklines for
CPU / memory / network. Renderer handles raw and rolled-up shapes.
status/dist/features.js rebuilt from source via build.js.
Lifted out of wip/cloud-backups-and-history; the half-finished
app-deps feature from that branch (frontend calls /api/v1/apps/
check-dependencies but the endpoint doesn't exist) is preserved
separately on wip/app-deps for later.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- install.sh now deploys the src/ directory alongside routes/.
Without this, fresh installs of v1.3.0+ produce containers whose
Dockerfile references src/ but the directory is missing on the host
filesystem, so docker build fails with "/src: not found".
- The fallback heredoc that writes /etc/systemd/system/dashcaddy-
updater.path drops MakeDirectory=yes for the same reason it was
removed from the on-disk unit (e994ad1): systemd creates the watched
trigger.json path as an empty directory on unit start, blocking
every subsequent update with EISDIR.
Bumped to 1.3.1 so the existing v1.3.0 instance auto-updates and
picks up these and the host-script fix from 0cf6323.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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