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Copyright (C) 2026 Doan Luu Duc Tai <doan@luuduct.ai>

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as
published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU Affero General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

CENTRAL CONFIGURATION

    Each installation has one root .env for deployment settings and secrets.
    The published .env.example documents every supported setting with public
    defaults, private placeholders, and comments. Hostnames are public information;
    this arrangement centralizes configuration, not secrecy or access control.
    Public values remain visible in generated pages, DNS, certificates, and URLs.

    Existing installations keep their configured secrets and settings. Missing
    public defaults are appended to the same .env by cargo stack config, service
    initialization, or chat initialization. No second environment file is created.
    The example is also the shared Rust configuration library's default source,
    so missing public settings remain compatible with older exports.

PUBLIC SETTINGS

    BASE_DOMAIN
        Root web/WKD domain. www aliases are derived from each configured host.

    SITE_HOST, GIT_HOST, SEARCH_HOST, WKD_HOST, CHAT_HOST
        Fully qualified DNS names without schemes, paths, or ports. The first
        four configure production Caddy routing. CHAT_HOST supplies the intended
        public chat link; production chat routing remains unimplemented on this
        experimental feature branch.

    HTTP_PORT, HTTPS_PORT
        Production Caddy listener and Podman published ports. HTTPS also publishes
        UDP for HTTP/3. Defaults are 80 and 443. Generated HTTPS links include a
        nonstandard HTTPS port when configured. Ordinary public certificate
        validation still needs the CA's standard external validation ports or an
        appropriate alternative certificate/routing arrangement. Setting ports
        alone does not configure DNS, firewall rules, or external port forwarding.

    LOCAL_HTTP_PORT
        Local Caddy HTTP port on 127.0.0.1. HTTPS host port is this value plus one.
        Local Caddy still listens on container ports 80/443. --port overrides the
        local port for that invocation. Existing installation/project names and
        image state remain in var/state.json; an explicit .env local port takes
        precedence over the previously saved port.

    CGIT_UPSTREAM, SEARXNG_UPSTREAM
        Proxy connection targets such as cgit:8080 and searxng:8080. These are
        addresses, not upstream bind settings. The bundled images' internal 8080
        listeners and health checks remain image contracts. Changing a target
        to another host/port requires an actual service at that address.

    CHAT_BIND, CHAT_ORIGIN
        Chat socket and exact browser origin. Default: 127.0.0.1:9080 and
        http://127.0.0.1:9080. The experimental server requires loopback and an
        exact HTTP origin match. --bind overrides CHAT_BIND for testing.
        Identity files pin their origin; editing these values does not migrate
        encrypted identities or grant access on another origin.

    BACKUP_RECIPIENT, BACKUP_PUBLIC_KEY
        Public OpenPGP fingerprint and project-relative public key path used for
        encrypted exports. --recipient and --key override them. The secret GnuPG
        key and revocation certificate remain outside the project.

PRIVATE SETTINGS

    SEARXNG_SECRET
        Generated on first stack initialization. Existing values are preserved.

    CHAT_SETUP_TOKEN
        Generated by cargo stack chat --init. Used only to authorize first owner
        registration, including a fresh registration after an explicit backend
        reset. It cannot recover a lost owner private key.

RENDER AND APPLY

    Edit .env locally. Never commit or publish it. Inspect the commented example
    for exact keys. Hostnames, ports, socket addresses, fingerprints, and paths
    are validated before use. Diagnostic formatting never dumps the config map.
    Invalid environment-file syntax is reported without echoing its raw contents.

    Render public deployment files without starting services:

        cargo stack config
        cargo stack config --production

    Outputs are var/local/ or var/production/:

        Caddyfile
        cgitrc
        web/

    infra/Caddyfile, infra/Caddyfile.local, infra/containers/cgit/cgitrc, and the
    first-party website HTML are templates using {{PUBLIC_KEY}} placeholders.
    Do not run Caddy directly on an unrendered template. Podman mounts the generated
    files. Public host/origin changes reach Caddy routes, www redirects, website
    links, the cgit clone prefix, and the chat page's navigation. Local rendering
    uses /git and /search paths and the configured local chat origin.

    To apply changes to the existing services:

        cargo stack up --local

    Production uses its prebuilt management command and images:

        ./bin/stack up --production

    Rendered website files can be read by an already running file server, while
    listeners, container environment, and loaded Caddy configuration require the
    service update above. Restart the local chat server with cargo stack chat to
    load its new bind, origin, or public navigation settings. Reopen your identity
    file afterward, as with any chat restart.

PUBLICATION AND LIMITS

    The shared stack-config crate uses an explicit public allowlist for template
    substitution. A {{CHAT_SETUP_TOKEN}} or other private/unknown placeholder
    causes an error rather than publishing its value. Generated public pages and
    proxy configuration never receive a full environment dump. Each container
    still receives only the environment keys listed for that service; Caddy uses
    rendered public configuration and does not need the .env or private tokens.

    The root .env, runtime files, local render outputs, exports, and tool caches
    remain ignored by Git. Source templates, the commented example, validated
    defaults, and this configuration implementation are public. Full encrypted
    backups include the single .env; source-only releases do not include it.

    Personal content and attribution remain source content: copyright headers,
    author names, canonical contact information, public key material/WKD hashes,
    project repository metadata, and GNU license links. Changing a deployment
    hostname does not create a new email identity or regenerate WKD keys.
    Image digests, source hashes, and fixed crypto/protocol/resource bounds remain
    reviewed reproducible code/configuration rather than private deployment knobs.