One Caddy block, both names, same root. The prerendered HTML already carries <link rel="canonical"> and og:url pointing at the primeintellectgrowth name on every route, so the alias does not split search ranking or leave a shared link ambiguous about which site it belongs to. Verified byte-identical: both hostnames return the same sha256 for /demos/wordle. Worth recording why the alias failed before this rather than 404ing. lumbridgecorp.com resolves on a WILDCARD, so every subdomain of it points at cloud-2 whether or not Caddy knows the name. DNS completes, TLS opens, Caddy finds no certificate for that SNI and aborts the handshake — the browser reports ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR, which reads as "the site is down" rather than "wrong hostname". primeintellectgrowth.com has no wildcard, which is why the canonical name needed an explicit A record. deploy.sh now smoke-tests the alias too: if the block is ever edited to drop the second name, the failure mode is a TLS error, and nothing else would catch it. The live block is mirrored into deploy/Caddyfile.demo so the config is reviewable in the repo rather than only on the host. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019mt6sHQHEnEYrJZvoMCJSB
Deploying
Static build, rsynced to cloud-2, served by Caddy.
pnpm build && bash deploy/deploy.sh
The pieces
| Hostnames | demo.primeintellectgrowth.com (canonical) and demo.lumbridgecorp.com (alias) |
| Host | cloud-2, ubuntu@100.92.185.76 (tailnet only) |
| Root | /var/www/demo.primeintellectgrowth.com |
| Snapshots | …-rollbacks/, last 10, hard-linked |
| DNS | OCI zone primeintellectgrowth.com → 170.9.14.61, explicit A record, no wildcard. The alias needs no record: lumbridgecorp.com has a wildcard |
| Caddy | one block for both names, mirrored in Caddyfile.demo |
Two hostnames, one root
Both names serve the same build. The prerendered HTML carries
<link rel="canonical"> and og:url pointing at the primeintellectgrowth
name on every route, so the alias does not split search ranking or make a shared
link ambiguous about which site it belongs to.
⚠️ lumbridgecorp.com resolves on a wildcard. Every subdomain of it points
at cloud-2 whether or not Caddy has a block for it — so an unconfigured or
mistyped name completes DNS, opens TLS, finds no certificate for that SNI, and
fails the handshake with ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR. That reads as "the site is
broken" when it means "that is not a site". primeintellectgrowth.com has no
wildcard, which is why the canonical name needed an explicit A record.
deploy.sh smoke-tests the alias for exactly this reason: if the block is ever
edited to drop the second name, the failure is a TLS error rather than a 404,
and nothing else would notice.
The trap that costs an afternoon
bind 10.0.0.2 is mandatory in the Caddy block, and its absence is silent.
Without it Caddy builds a second server on *:443 that has never heard of this
hostname. Public traffic — which NATs to 10.0.0.2 — falls through to an empty
200 behind a perfectly valid certificate. Worse, a
curl --resolve demo.primeintellectgrowth.com:443:127.0.0.1 from cloud-2 itself
still passes.
deploy.sh therefore smoke-tests the real public hostname from the deploying
machine and fails on a response under 1 kB.
Do not use PIG's deploy/Caddyfile.example as a template — it omits the bind.
Rolling back
ssh ubuntu@100.92.185.76
ls -1dt /var/www/demo.primeintellectgrowth.com-rollbacks/*/
sudo rsync -a --delete <that-dir>/ /var/www/demo.primeintellectgrowth.com/
No Caddy reload needed; the root path does not change.
Editing the live Caddyfile
Scope the edit to this site's block. Several sites on cloud-2 carry
byte-identical header strings, so a naive global replace hits two of them. Slice
between demo.primeintellectgrowth.com { and the next hostname, and assert the
match is unique inside that slice.