aia-website/www/integrations/nixos/deploy.md

Contabo release operations

This site publishes static content through the merged Contabo release manager. It does not run nixos-rebuild, reload nginx, change DNS, or write directly to /srv/www/azinstitute4autism.com/www/dist.

Required local tools and private inputs

• Node.js 22+, Git, tar, SSH and rsync.
• A normal SSH identity accepted by the existing root receiver: AIA_DEPLOY_SSH_IDENTITY=/absolute/path/to/identity.
• AIA_DEPLOY_HOST=administrator@host (or the approved equivalent).
• For a real public release, an owner-controlled, regular encrypted payload: AIA_PORTAL_PRODUCTION_CIPHERTEXT_FILE=/absolute/private/employee-portal/approved-production-ciphertext.json.

The payload remains outside Git and the source snapshot. It is browser ciphertext only; neither access code nor decrypted portal HTML enters an Astro environment variable, public resource directory, build log, or deployment manifest.

Commands

From www/:

npm run deploy -- --dry-run

Dry-run performs the local production build, tests, artifact verification, manifest creation and source-snapshot preparation. With no private production payload it uses a generated synthetic two-stream fixture and explicitly reports that the result is not production-ready. It never opens SSH or rsync.

AIA_DEPLOY_HOST='root@approved-host' \
AIA_DEPLOY_SSH_IDENTITY="$HOME/.ssh/AIAMarketing" \
AIA_PORTAL_PRODUCTION_CIPHERTEXT_FILE="$PWD/private/employee-portal/approved-production-ciphertext.json" \
npm run deploy -- --confirm

The confirmed command builds with PUBLIC_ALLOW_INDEXING=true, Form A live and counters off, then uploads only fresh commit-specific staging/source-<sha> and staging/dist-<sha> directories. It runs, in order:

aia-website-release verify
aia-website-release sync-source
aia-website-release promote

The VPS verifies the manifest, promotes an immutable release by atomic symlink, and retains the prior release. A successful rsync transfer alone is not success.

Rollback requires the reviewed manifest retained at the server’s fixed path:

AIA_DEPLOY_HOST='root@approved-host' \
AIA_DEPLOY_SSH_IDENTITY="$HOME/.ssh/AIAMarketing" \
npm run deploy:rollback -- FULL_APPROVED_SHA --confirm

Employee resources: separate one-time operation

Approved non-PHI employee files are never part of an ordinary release. After the website release that contains portal-resource-install.sh is promoted and the VPS SOPS-backed Basic Auth material is independently ready:

npm run deploy:portal-resources -- --dry-run

AIA_DEPLOY_HOST='root@approved-host' \
AIA_DEPLOY_SSH_IDENTITY="$HOME/.ssh/AIAMarketing" \
npm run deploy:portal-resources -- --confirm

The installer invokes the promoted root-only portal-resource-install.sh through NixOS's base /bin/sh and coreutils path; it does not depend on a globally installed Node.js runtime. It reads only the private collection manifest, accepts approved STAFF-INTERNAL and MANAGEMENT-INTERNAL mappings to /staff-resources/ and /management-resources/, verifies every local hash, rejects links/traversal and uploads a root-controlled temporary tree. It never uses --delete for resource directories and refuses to replace a different existing file. The VPS installs regular files as root:nginx mode 0640 and reports metadata only.

Before public DNS cutover, test the site with approved host-header/SNI methods, including the portal’s noindex response, valid ciphertext unlock, both protected resource namespaces, denial cases, redirects, Form A, IPv4 and IPv6. Portal shared-code rotation is coordinated: update VPS SOPS inputs and privately re-encrypt the browser payload together. This interim portal is non-PHI and is not an employee identity system.