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Fixed worktree dev servers sharing one Admin session cookie - #31744
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no ref Browsers don't scope cookies by port, so every checkout's `pnpm dev` on localhost shared one ghost-admin-api-session cookie: signing in to one worktree's Admin replaced the cookie and signed the other worktrees out. Each linked worktree now gets a <worktree>.localhost hostname, kept in .ghost-dev.env next to its ports (older files are backfilled). Browsers resolve *.localhost to loopback without /etc/hosts entries. The main checkout stays on localhost:2368.
WalkthroughDevelopment checkouts now receive a hostname as well as ports and a database. The environment resolver assigns Change: Bug fix Pre-merge checks |
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The title clearly summarizes the main change: separating Admin session cookies between linked worktree development servers. |
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The description directly explains the cookie-sharing problem, the hostname-based solution, affected development flows, and relevant limitations. |
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PASS. The only non-script code change reads GHOST_DEV_HOSTNAME in apps/admin/vite-front-door.ts, which is a Vite configuration module imported by apps/admin/vite.config.ts; configuration files a… |
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The pull request adds only scripts/test/ghost-dev-env.test.ts. It adds no .js, .jsx, .cjs, or .mjs file, so the failure condition does not apply. |
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no ref A folder name with no ASCII letters or digits produced `.localhost`, and its collision-suffixed variant a label starting with a hyphen. Those now fall back to a label from the checkout path's hash. Adding the hostname to an existing .ghost-dev.env now appends one line instead of rewriting the file, so comments survive and readers never see a truncated file.
…14b369 # Conflicts: # docs/contributing/development-setup.md # scripts/lib/ghost-dev-env.ts
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108-108: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winKeep truncated worktree hostnames unique.
If two worktree names share their first 63 normalized characters,
worktreeHostnamegives them the same hostname. The database collision check does not prevent this case because it compares the untruncated candidate with the database name after it was truncated to 64 characters. The generated hostname is persisted in.ghost-dev.env, so the collision can survive restarts and cause the two Admin sessions to share a cookie hostname.Reserve space for a checkout-hash suffix when truncating the label.
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- const label = name + const normalized = name .replace(/_/g, '-') - .slice(0, 63) .replace(/^-+|-+$/g, ''); + const label = + normalized.length > 63 + ? `${normalized.slice(0, 56)}-${hash.slice(0, 6)}` + : normalized;Update the truncation test to expect the hash suffix.
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Review comments at @scripts/lib/ghost-dev-env.ts:
- Line 108: Update the label construction in worktreeHostname to reserve space
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# Development setup
## Start Ghost
### Worktrees
Delete `.ghost-dev.env` to be assigned new values, or set `GHOST_DEV_HOSTNAME`,
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Browsers don't scope cookies by port, so every checkout's
pnpm devonlocalhostshares oneghost-admin-api-sessioncookie: signing in to one worktree's Admin signs the others out.Linked worktrees now use
<worktree>.localhostwith their existing ports (GHOST_DEV_HOSTNAMEin.ghost-dev.env, overridable from the environment), which Ghost'surl, the printed URLs anddev:up/dev:statususe. The main checkout keepshttp://localhost:2368, which covers devcontainers and single-checkout cloud VMs; Codespaces still sets its ownurl.Hostname + port vs port-only
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localhost:2368everywhere else, no proxy.