Taking over a parked item from the app-UI work. AIUI's built index.html
emits ABSOLUTE /assets/<hashed> paths, so the browser asks for
/assets/index-BC2fBBaW.js. That lands in the MAIN UI's assets dir, where
it does not exist — the real files are in aiui/assets/. Both of AIUI's
two entry assets 404'd, so the embedded sidebar loaded nothing.
The config already contained a /aiui-assets/ location whose comment names
this exact problem ("AIUI may reference /assets/ without /aiui/ prefix"),
but it only catches requests to /aiui-assets/, a path AIUI never asks
for. It described the bug without fixing it.
/assets/ now falls back to a named location that rewrites into
aiui/assets/ and 404s from there. A fallback rather than copying the two
files up one level, because a frontend deploy replaces web-ui wholesale —
update.rs preserves the aiui/ DIRECTORY, not copies made into assets/ —
so a copy is erased by the very next deploy while this survives one.
Both server blocks (HTTP and HTTPS) are patched; named locations are
per-server, so each needs its own.
Verified on archi-dev-box after reload:
/assets/index-BC2fBBaW.js 200, 305256 bytes, application/javascript
/assets/index-BJkaQ2c4.css 200, 150716 bytes, text/css
/assets/does-not-exist.js 404 (the fallback is not over-broad)
/assets/index--lyLAgu1.js 200 (real main-UI chunks still come from
/assets/vendor-CmYeCqL_.js 200 the main dir — try_files hits them
/assets/index-CiMaoNII.css 200 before the fallback is consulted)
/ /aiui/ /health 200
Hash collision between the two builds is not a concern: Vite hashes are
content-derived, and any main-UI asset that exists is served by try_files
before the fallback runs.
Noted while doing this, not fixed here: the node's own
/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/archipelago is 378 lines BEHIND this repo file
(984 vs 1362) — it predates the IPv6 listener and the @asset_missing
no-store handling, among others. The node was patched minimally in its
own shape rather than overwritten, since a wholesale copy of a config
this diverged is not a safe unattended action.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
