nginx -s reload signals a running master process. When nginx enters
failed state (start-limit-hit from repeated nginx -t failures on a
bad agents.conf), there is no master and the reload is a silent no-op.
c0re kept re-firing the same no-op reload forever via RELOAD_PENDING.
Fix: probe the nginx unit's ActiveState before sending the reload:
- active → nginx -s reload (existing zero-downtime path)
- failed → systemctl reset-failed nginx + systemctl start nginx
- other → systemctl start nginx
This makes c0re self-healing: once a corrected agents.conf is published,
the next reload_gateway_nginx call clears the start-limit and restarts
nginx automatically without operator intervention.
New helpers: nginx_active_state() (systemctl show --property=ActiveState
--value) and gateway_systemctl() (host-side systemctl --machine=hive-gateway).
nginx forbids a URI part on proxy_pass inside named locations, so the
split-mode `@<name>_dynamic` fallback (introduced when the gateway
started serving static dist directly) failed config-test with:
"proxy_pass" cannot have URI part in location given by regular
expression, or inside named location
Render two upstream forms: prefix locations keep the trailing slash so
nginx auto-strips the location prefix; the named-location path strips
`/agent/<name>/` via `rewrite ... break` and uses a bare upstream.
gateway_nginx.rs reads HIVE_AGENT_FRONTEND_DIR (injected by hive-c0re.nix
as ${cfg.frontend}/agent). When set, agents.conf emits per-agent split
blocks instead of the old single proxy_pass:
# Compiled assets — immutable nix store path, cache 1y
location ^~ /agent/<name>/static/ {
alias <frontend>/static/;
expires 1y; add_header Cache-Control "public, immutable, ...";
}
# Static dist + proxy fallback
location /agent/<name>/ {
alias <frontend>/;
try_files $uri $uri.html $uri/index.html @<name>_dynamic;
}
location @<name>_dynamic {
proxy_pass <upstream>; # api, events, icon, login, …
…proxy headers unchanged…
}
try_files path resolution (nginx applies alias mapping first):
$uri — exact file (/static/app.js → static/app.js)
$uri.html — bare-path fallback (/stats → stats.html)
$uri/index.html — directory index (/ → index.html)
@<name>_dynamic — proxy catchall for anything not in the dist
Adding pages to the frontend dist works automatically — no generator
change needed. Per-agent extraFiles (in mergedDist, not in the base
nix-store path) continue to proxy to the agent daemon.
frontend is a nix store path injected at build time — only [a-z0-9/._-],
no shell metacharacters — safe to interpolate without sanitization;
comment added documenting this assumption.
Without HIVE_AGENT_FRONTEND_DIR the existing single-proxy block is
emitted unchanged — backward-compatible for deployments without the env.
render() takes frontend_dir as a parameter so tests exercise both code
paths safely in parallel. 13 tests: 7 legacy, 6 split-mode. No clippy
warnings in changed files.
nix/modules/hive-c0re.nix: inject HIVE_AGENT_FRONTEND_DIR = "${cfg.frontend}/agent".
The #872 path-unit approach was silently broken: IN_MOVED_TO from an
atomic rename on the host does not propagate across the nspawn
mount-namespace boundary into the container, so the watcher inside
the gateway container never fired.
Fix: after each agents.conf write, c0re calls
`systemd-run --machine=hive-gateway -- nginx -s reload` from the host.
The reload is best-effort (logged on failure, not fatal).
Remove the now-unused `hive-gateway-agents-conf.path` +
`hive-gateway-nginx-reload.service` from the gateway container config.
Update docs/gateway.md + comments to reflect the host-side approach.
- gateway_nginx.rs: HOST_CONF_PATH → /var/lib/hyperhive/gateway/agents.conf
- hive-gateway.nix: hostPath = /var/lib/hyperhive/gateway (not whole parent
dir — avoids exposing forge tokens or other credentials to the gateway
container)
- tmpfiles: add /var/lib/hyperhive/gateway/ dir rule + seed agents.conf there
- scrub "(#869)" from hive-gateway-nginx-reload service description
Replace eval-time per-agent nginx location baking with a runtime
include file. c0re writes /var/lib/hyperhive/agents.conf (nginx
location blocks, UDS or TCP per agent) on every topology change and
on the 10s marker poll. The gateway container bind-mounts
/var/lib/hyperhive/ at /run/hive-state/ and nginx includes
/run/hive-state/agents.conf. A systemd path unit inside the container
watches the file for changes and fires `nginx -s reload` on each
atomic rename from c0re — no nixos-rebuild switch needed when agents
start, stop, or flip useUnixSocket.
- new hive-c0re/src/gateway_nginx.rs: write() + render()
- lib.rs + meta.rs + agent_sockets::spawn_poll: hook in write()
- hive-gateway.nix: drop agentPortsTable/agentSocketsTable/
agentUpstreamFor/lib.mapAttrs', add /run/hive-state bind-mount,
include directive, systemd path unit + reload service, tmpfiles
for /var/lib/hyperhive + agents.conf seed
- docs/gateway.md: update vhost table + Per-agent UDS section
