Previous attempt (commit 55cc75e7d) tried to fix the broken JWT mint
in /api/v1/auth/login by switching the cookie name from
`mana.session_token` to `__Secure-mana.session_token` for production.
That was necessary but not sufficient: Better Auth's session cookie
value isn't just the raw session token, it's `<token>.<HMAC>` where
the HMAC is derived from the better-auth secret. Reconstructing the
cookie from auth.api.signInEmail's JSON response only gave us the raw
token, so /api/auth/token's get-session middleware still couldn't
validate it and the JWT mint kept silently failing.
Real fix: do the sign-in via auth.handler (the HTTP path) rather than
auth.api.signInEmail (the SDK path). The handler returns a real fetch
Response with a Set-Cookie header containing the fully signed cookie
envelope. We capture that header verbatim and forward it as the cookie
on the /api/auth/token request, which now passes validation and mints
the JWT correctly.
Verified end-to-end on auth.mana.how:
$ curl -X POST https://auth.mana.how/api/v1/auth/login \
-d '{"email":"...","password":"..."}'
{
"user": {...},
"token": "<session token>",
"accessToken": "eyJhbGciOiJFZERTQSI...", ← real JWT now
"refreshToken": "<session token>"
}
Side benefits:
- The email-not-verified path is now handled by checking
signInResponse.status === 403 directly, no more catching APIError
with the comment-noted async-stream footgun.
- X-Forwarded-For is forwarded explicitly so Better Auth's rate limiter
and our security log see the real client IP.
- The leftover catch block now only handles unexpected exceptions
(network errors etc); the FORBIDDEN-checking logic in it is dead but
harmless and left in for defense in depth.
Two infrastructure improvements for tech independence:
1. Cloudflare Fallback Documentation (docs/CLOUDFLARE_FALLBACK.md):
- Plan B: WireGuard + Caddy on Hetzner VPS (€3.79/mo)
- Complete Caddyfile with all 30+ subdomains
- Step-by-step failover checklist (~15 min to switch)
- Plan C: Direct IP with ISP
2. Self-Hosted Landing Pages (eliminates Cloudflare Pages dependency):
- Nginx container (mana-infra-landings) on port 4400
- Multi-site config: each subdomain → separate dist/ folder
- Build script: scripts/mac-mini/build-landings.sh
- Cloudflare Tunnel ingress rules for 10 landing page domains
- Storage: /Volumes/ManaData/landings/ on external SSD
- Domains: it, chats, pics, zitares, presis, clocks,
manadeck, nutriphi, citycorners, docs
Migration path: Build landings locally, set Cloudflare DNS to
tunnel instead of Pages, then decommission CF Pages projects.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
