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Michael TillerandClaude Opus 4.8 7e4914d991 feat(web): support a reverse-proxy base URL (--base-url / CODEMAN_BASE_URL)
Codeman can now be mounted under a sub-path behind a reverse proxy that
forwards the prefix unchanged (e.g. https://host/codeman/). Default is `/`
(root), which is byte-identical to the historical behavior.

Design — few choke points, mirrored ingress/egress:
- src/config/base-path.ts: pure single-source normalize/validate/join/strip.
- Server ingress: stripBasePath() inside Fastify rewriteUrl, so routes stay
  declared prefix-agnostic; un-prefixed requests (hooks, health, docker bridge
  hitting the raw port) pass through unchanged.
- Server egress: one onSend hook prepends the base to root-absolute Location
  headers (covers all redirects).
- HTML: renderIndexHtml points <base href> at the mount and injects
  window.__CODEMAN_BASE__ — ONLY when a base is set (inert at root).
- Frontend runtime URLs: CodemanBase.url() route builder in constants.js,
  applied transparently by a fetch wrapper and explicitly at the
  EventSource/WebSocket/window.open/<img|iframe|a>-src sites.
- sw.js derives its base from self.location; manifest uses relative start_url/scope.
- Web-tab proxy: proxyPrefixFor(cap, basePath) is the single base-aware root that
  cascades to the injected <base>, HTML/attr rewrites, runtimeUrlShim, Set-Cookie
  Path and Location; capabilityFromReferer strips the base off the browser Referer,
  while the ingress parsers stay base-agnostic (rewriteUrl already stripped it).

--base-url rides the daemon relaunch (buildWebArgs) and the service unit
(resolveServicePlan). constants.js is guarded against a missing `window` for
isolated unit-test contexts.

Tests: test/base-path.test.ts (pure helpers), base-path coverage in
webview-proxy/render-index-html/daemon-control; CodemanBase stubbed in the
vm-isolated panels-ui test contexts. Docs: Remote-Access.md (sub-path section +
nginx example), security-architecture.md env table, CLAUDE.md pattern.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XUkPBxbumnct6qSrx4JDju
2026-09-04 16:08:57 -04:00

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/**
* @fileoverview Detached `codeman web` control: start (-d), stop, status.
*
* Backs `codeman web -d`, `codeman web --stop` and `codeman web --status`. The
* server itself is unchanged; this module re-launches the SAME entry script in a
* new session (`detached: true` calls setsid), so the child has no controlling
* terminal and no shell job entry. That is what actually makes it outlive the
* shell: `nohup` does not, because Node re-arms SIGHUP to its default disposition
* even when it inherits "ignore", and `cli.ts` installs a SIGHUP handler that
* shuts the server down gracefully (issue #231).
*
* Two rules shape the rest of the module:
*
* 1. **Never start a second server on one data dir.** `~/.codeman` and the
* `tmux -L codeman` socket are process-wide (config/instance.ts), so a second
* instance discovers and attaches PTYs to the first one's live sessions and
* starts resizing them. A double `-d` therefore has to be a hard error, which
* means checking both the pidfile AND the port before spawning.
* 2. **Never report success we have not seen.** The parent polls `/api/status`
* until the child answers (or dies) before printing a URL. A port clash or a
* missing dependency otherwise looks exactly like a clean start.
*
* Pure helpers (arg building, URL building, pidfile parsing, the process-identity
* check) are exported separately so they can be unit-tested without spawning.
*
* @module daemon-control
*/
import { spawn, execFileSync } from 'node:child_process';
import { appendFileSync, closeSync, existsSync, openSync, readFileSync, unlinkSync, writeFileSync } from 'node:fs';
import http from 'node:http';
import https from 'node:https';
import { dataPath } from './config/instance.js';
import { EXEC_TIMEOUT_MS } from './config/exec-timeout.js';
/** How long to wait for a freshly spawned server to answer `/api/status`. */
const START_TIMEOUT_MS = 30_000;
/** How long to wait for a SIGTERM'd server to actually exit before giving up. */
const STOP_TIMEOUT_MS = 15_000;
/** Poll interval while waiting for either of the above. */
const POLL_INTERVAL_MS = 250;
/** The `web` command's options, as far as a detached relaunch cares about them. */
export interface WebLaunchOptions {
host: string;
port: number;
https: boolean;
/** Reverse-proxy sub-path prefix (normalized: '' for root, or '/foo'). */
basePath?: string;
titleHostname?: string;
allowUnauthenticatedNetwork?: boolean;
multiuser?: boolean;
}
export interface StartResult {
ok: boolean;
pid?: number;
url?: string;
/** Machine-readable failure cause; `undefined` on success. */
reason?: 'already-running' | 'exited' | 'timeout';
message?: string;
logPath: string;
}
export interface StopResult {
ok: boolean;
pid?: number;
reason?: 'not-running' | 'foreign-pid' | 'timeout' | 'no-pidfile-but-responding';
message?: string;
}
export interface DaemonStatus {
pid: number | null;
/** The pid in the pidfile is alive AND still looks like a Codeman web process. */
running: boolean;
/** Something answered `/api/status` at the expected address. */
responding: boolean;
version?: string;
url: string;
pidFile: string;
logPath: string;
}
// ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
// Pure helpers
// ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
/** Rebuild the `web` argv for the child, dropping the daemon flags themselves. */
export function buildWebArgs(options: WebLaunchOptions): string[] {
const args = ['web', '--host', options.host, '--port', String(options.port)];
if (options.https) args.push('--https');
if (options.basePath) args.push('--base-url', options.basePath);
if (options.titleHostname) args.push('--title-hostname', options.titleHostname);
if (options.allowUnauthenticatedNetwork) args.push('--allow-unauthenticated-network');
if (options.multiuser) args.push('--multiuser');
return args;
}
/**
* Connectable address for this bind. A wildcard bind is not itself connectable,
* so `0.0.0.0` / `::` become loopback; a bare IPv6 literal gets bracketed.
*/
export function buildBaseUrl(options: WebLaunchOptions): string {
const protocol = options.https ? 'https' : 'http';
let host = options.host.trim();
if (host === '0.0.0.0' || host === '::' || host === '') host = '127.0.0.1';
if (host.includes(':') && !host.startsWith('[')) host = `[${host}]`;
return `${protocol}://${host}:${options.port}`;
}
/** The endpoint polled for readiness. */
export function buildStatusUrl(options: WebLaunchOptions): string {
return `${buildBaseUrl(options)}/api/status`;
}
/** Parse a pidfile body. Rejects garbage, and pid 1 (init is never ours). */
export function parsePidFileContents(text: string): number | null {
const trimmed = text.trim();
if (!/^\d+$/.test(trimmed)) return null;
const pid = Number.parseInt(trimmed, 10);
if (!Number.isSafeInteger(pid) || pid <= 1) return null;
return pid;
}
/**
* Does this command line look like a Codeman web server?
*
* Pids are recycled, and a stale pidfile pointing at whatever inherited the
* number is a live footgun: `codeman web --stop` must not SIGTERM an unrelated
* process. Both the npm bin (`codeman`/`aicodeman`) and the direct entry
* (`node dist/index.js web`, `tsx src/index.ts web`) have to match.
*/
export function looksLikeCodemanWeb(command: string | null | undefined): boolean {
if (!command) return false;
if (!/(^|\s)web(\s|$)/.test(command)) return false;
return /(^|[/\s])(ai)?codeman(\s|$)/.test(command) || /index\.(js|ts)(\s|$)/.test(command);
}
// ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
// Paths
// ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
/**
* Resolved at call time, not module load: tests swap `HOME` per file, and the
* data dir is derived from it (see test/setup.ts).
*/
export function pidFilePath(): string {
return dataPath('web.pid');
}
/** Where a detached server's stdout/stderr is appended. */
export function logFilePath(): string {
return dataPath('web.log');
}
// ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
// Process probing
// ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
/** Signal 0 liveness check. EPERM means the pid exists but is not ours. */
export function isProcessAlive(pid: number): boolean {
try {
process.kill(pid, 0);
return true;
} catch (err) {
return (err as NodeJS.ErrnoException).code === 'EPERM';
}
}
/** Full command line of a pid, or null. `-o command=` is portable to macOS. */
export function readProcessCommand(pid: number): string | null {
try {
const out = execFileSync('ps', ['-o', 'command=', '-p', String(pid)], {
encoding: 'utf-8',
timeout: EXEC_TIMEOUT_MS,
stdio: ['ignore', 'pipe', 'ignore'],
});
return out.trim() || null;
} catch {
return null;
}
}
/** Read the pidfile, returning null when it is missing, empty or malformed. */
export function readPidFile(): number | null {
const file = pidFilePath();
if (!existsSync(file)) return null;
try {
return parsePidFileContents(readFileSync(file, 'utf-8'));
} catch {
return null;
}
}
function removePidFile(): void {
try {
unlinkSync(pidFilePath());
} catch {
/* already gone */
}
}
/** Pid of a live Codeman web server recorded in the pidfile, or null. */
export function readLivePid(): number | null {
const pid = readPidFile();
if (pid === null) return null;
if (!isProcessAlive(pid)) return null;
// A recycled pid is not ours. `ps` can also legitimately fail (containers with
// no procps); treat "cannot tell" as ours rather than orphaning the pidfile.
const command = readProcessCommand(pid);
if (command !== null && !looksLikeCodemanWeb(command)) return null;
return pid;
}
// ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
// HTTP readiness probe
// ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
export interface ProbeResult {
/** A Codeman server answered. A 401 counts: auth is active, the server is up. */
up: boolean;
version?: string;
}
/**
* Probe `/api/status`. Self-signed certs are accepted (`--https` generates one),
* and 401 counts as up because `CODEMAN_PASSWORD` gates that route. The body is
* checked so an unrelated service squatting on the port is not read as success.
*/
export function probeServer(url: string, timeoutMs = 2000): Promise<ProbeResult> {
return new Promise((resolve) => {
let settled = false;
const done = (result: ProbeResult) => {
if (settled) return;
settled = true;
resolve(result);
};
let target: URL;
try {
target = new URL(url);
} catch {
done({ up: false });
return;
}
const transport = target.protocol === 'https:' ? https : http;
const req = transport.request(
{
protocol: target.protocol,
hostname: target.hostname,
port: target.port,
path: target.pathname,
method: 'GET',
rejectUnauthorized: false,
timeout: timeoutMs,
headers: { Accept: 'application/json' },
},
(res) => {
if (res.statusCode === 401) {
res.resume();
done({ up: true });
return;
}
let body = '';
res.setEncoding('utf-8');
res.on('data', (chunk: string) => {
if (body.length < 4096) body += chunk;
});
res.on('end', () => {
if (!body.includes('"success"')) {
done({ up: false });
return;
}
let version: string | undefined;
try {
version = (JSON.parse(body) as { data?: { version?: string } }).data?.version;
} catch {
/* body was truncated at 4KB; up is still true */
}
done({ up: true, version });
});
res.on('error', () => done({ up: false }));
}
);
req.on('timeout', () => {
req.destroy();
done({ up: false });
});
req.on('error', () => done({ up: false }));
req.end();
});
}
function sleep(ms: number): Promise<void> {
return new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, ms));
}
// ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
// Start / stop / status
// ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
/**
* The script to relaunch. `process.execArgv` is carried over with it so a dev
* run under tsx (whose execArgv holds the tsx loader flags) re-launches through
* tsx instead of handing a `.ts` file to bare node.
*/
function entryScript(): string {
const script = process.argv[1];
if (!script) throw new Error('cannot determine the codeman entry script to relaunch');
return script;
}
/** Marks one launch in the append-only log so a tail cannot mix two runs. */
const LOG_SEPARATOR = '=== codeman web start';
/**
* Last few lines of the daemon log, for reporting a failed start. The log is
* append-only across launches, so the tail starts at the last separator when
* there is one: otherwise a crash report is padded with the previous run's
* cheerful startup banner.
*/
export function tailLog(maxLines = 15): string {
try {
const lines = readFileSync(logFilePath(), 'utf-8').trimEnd().split('\n');
const start = lines.map((line) => line.startsWith(LOG_SEPARATOR)).lastIndexOf(true);
const current = start === -1 ? lines : lines.slice(start + 1);
return current.slice(-maxLines).join('\n');
} catch {
return '';
}
}
/**
* Spawn a detached `codeman web` and wait until it answers before returning.
* Refuses when a server is already up on this data dir (see rule 1 in the module
* docblock).
*/
export async function startDaemon(options: WebLaunchOptions): Promise<StartResult> {
const logPath = logFilePath();
const url = buildBaseUrl(options);
const statusUrl = buildStatusUrl(options);
const existingPid = readLivePid();
if (existingPid !== null) {
return {
ok: false,
reason: 'already-running',
pid: existingPid,
logPath,
message: `a Codeman server is already running (pid ${existingPid}). Stop it with \`codeman web --stop\` first.`,
};
}
const alreadyServing = await probeServer(statusUrl, 1500);
if (alreadyServing.up) {
return {
ok: false,
reason: 'already-running',
logPath,
url,
message: `something is already serving ${url}. Two servers on one data dir attach to each other's tmux sessions, so refusing to start.`,
};
}
// A pidfile that survived a crash: the process is gone, so it is just litter.
if (readPidFile() !== null) removePidFile();
const args = buildWebArgs(options);
try {
appendFileSync(logPath, `\n${LOG_SEPARATOR} ${new Date().toISOString()} ===\n`, 'utf-8');
} catch {
/* the spawn below reports a genuinely unwritable log */
}
const logFd = openSync(logPath, 'a');
let child;
try {
child = spawn(process.execPath, [...process.execArgv, entryScript(), ...args], {
detached: true,
stdio: ['ignore', logFd, logFd],
env: process.env,
});
} finally {
closeSync(logFd);
}
let exited = false;
child.on('exit', () => {
exited = true;
});
child.on('error', () => {
exited = true;
});
const pid = child.pid;
if (pid === undefined) {
return { ok: false, reason: 'exited', logPath, message: 'failed to spawn the server process' };
}
writeFileSync(pidFilePath(), `${pid}\n`, 'utf-8');
const deadline = Date.now() + START_TIMEOUT_MS;
while (Date.now() < deadline) {
if (exited) {
removePidFile();
child.unref();
return {
ok: false,
reason: 'exited',
logPath,
message: `the server exited during startup. Last lines of ${logPath}:\n${tailLog()}`,
};
}
const probe = await probeServer(statusUrl, 1000);
if (probe.up) {
child.unref();
return { ok: true, pid, url, logPath };
}
await sleep(POLL_INTERVAL_MS);
}
child.unref();
return {
ok: false,
reason: 'timeout',
pid,
url,
logPath,
message: `the server did not answer ${url} within ${START_TIMEOUT_MS / 1000}s. It may still be starting; check ${logPath}.`,
};
}
/** SIGTERM the recorded server and wait for it to actually exit. */
export async function stopDaemon(options: WebLaunchOptions): Promise<StopResult> {
const pid = readPidFile();
if (pid === null) {
const probe = await probeServer(buildStatusUrl(options), 1500);
if (probe.up) {
return {
ok: false,
reason: 'no-pidfile-but-responding',
message:
'a server is responding but there is no pidfile, so it was not started with `-d`. If it is a service use `codeman service uninstall` (or stop the unit); otherwise `pkill -f "index.js web"`.',
};
}
return { ok: true, reason: 'not-running', message: 'no daemon is running; nothing to stop' };
}
if (!isProcessAlive(pid)) {
removePidFile();
return { ok: true, pid, message: `stale pidfile removed (pid ${pid} was not running)` };
}
const command = readProcessCommand(pid);
if (command !== null && !looksLikeCodemanWeb(command)) {
return {
ok: false,
reason: 'foreign-pid',
pid,
message: `pid ${pid} is not a Codeman server (${command}). Refusing to signal it; delete ${pidFilePath()} if it is stale.`,
};
}
// SIGTERM, never SIGKILL: cli.ts flushes state on the way out.
try {
process.kill(pid, 'SIGTERM');
} catch (err) {
return { ok: false, reason: 'foreign-pid', pid, message: `could not signal pid ${pid}: ${String(err)}` };
}
const deadline = Date.now() + STOP_TIMEOUT_MS;
while (Date.now() < deadline) {
if (!isProcessAlive(pid)) {
removePidFile();
return { ok: true, pid };
}
await sleep(POLL_INTERVAL_MS);
}
return {
ok: false,
reason: 'timeout',
pid,
message: `pid ${pid} did not exit within ${STOP_TIMEOUT_MS / 1000}s. Force it with \`kill -9 ${pid}\` if you are sure.`,
};
}
/** Report on both halves: the recorded process, and whether the port answers. */
export async function daemonStatus(options: WebLaunchOptions): Promise<DaemonStatus> {
const url = buildBaseUrl(options);
const pid = readPidFile();
const probe = await probeServer(buildStatusUrl(options), 2000);
return {
pid,
running: readLivePid() !== null,
responding: probe.up,
version: probe.version,
url,
pidFile: pidFilePath(),
logPath: logFilePath(),
};
}