Reported from a Windows Server 2019 test: a "Windows Installer" dialog listing
every msiexec /Option appeared, then the wizard reported that the bundled MySQL
database could not be installed. That dialog is msiexec's usage help - it prints
it when the command line does not parse - so the install never started.
Cause: $MysqlRoot defaulted to 'C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 8.4', which
contains spaces. Invoke-Native wraps any argument containing whitespace in
quotes, producing "INSTALLDIR=C:\Program Files\...". msiexec takes public
properties as PROPERTY=value and expects the VALUE quoted -
INSTALLDIR="C:\Program Files\..." - so it rejected the line, printed usage, and
exited non-zero.
This file already carried the rule, next to the Python target: "Never put a
space in a path this installer controls." I broke it setting the 8.4 path.
Two fixes, because one of them alone leaves the trap in place:
- $MysqlRoot is now C:\MySQL84, space-free like C:\Python314. The MySQL client
search paths in the installer, the preflight and the operator console all look
there first, keeping backups working against the bundled server.
- Invoke-Native now quotes PROPERTY=value correctly, so passing a spaced path
explicitly no longer produces an unparseable command line.
tests/test_installer_defaults.py fails if an installer-controlled path default
ever contains a space again.
The preflight page began refusing to continue while any check was failing, which
is right for something the operator must go and fix. HttpPlatformHandler was
marked FAIL when absent - so on a server without it the wizard stopped dead,
telling the operator the server was not ready, over a module the bundle carries
and stage 4 installs a few pages later. The only way forward was to go and
install by hand the exact thing the installer was about to install.
It is now INFO: reported, not blocking, matching how URL Rewrite is already
handled. Nothing the installer SUPPLIES may block the wizard, and
tests/test_installer_defaults.py now fails if that rule is broken again.
The site-port conflict check is downgraded from FAIL to WARN for the same class
of reason: it runs before the operator reaches the Address page, so it tests the
DEFAULT port rather than the one they intend to use, and blocking refuses an
install over a conflict the very next page lets them resolve.
Genuine blockers are unchanged - no IIS, no WebAdministration, wrong Windows
edition or architecture, no disk, and the MySQL 5.6 index flags. Those the
operator really does have to fix first.
CLIENT IP / SPOOFABILITY. docs/geenforce-api-cutover.md claimed that removing the
IIS rewrite rule made the allowlist fail closed and that it does NOT become
spoofable. The opposite is true. IIS never sets X-Forwarded-For on its own; the
rule is the only thing that does. Remove it and IIS still forwards whatever
X-Forwarded-For the CALLER sent, waitress trusts it because it arrives from
127.0.0.1, and remote_addr becomes attacker-controlled - so a token-less caller
can fetch manifests from anywhere on the network. The document and the
_trusted_client_ip docstring now say so, waitress runs with
--trusted-proxy-count=1, and stage 5 checks the rule is actually live rather than
assuming it. The wizard question is rephrased to something an operator can verify
with their network team instead of guessing at.
NON-ASCII. The style gate only ever checked .py/.vue/.js/.ts, so documentation
accumulated em-dashes, arrows and box-drawing characters against this repo's own
convention - including in files added this week. Cleaned, and the gate now uses
INCLUDES_ALL so Markdown, JSON and YAML are covered.
PLUGIN DEFAULTS. The wizard pre-ticked measuringtools and printedparts, both of
which ship default_enabled=false, so every site taking the defaults installed and
enabled them against their manifests. Inno has no JSON parser so the list must be
hardcoded, but tests/test_installer_defaults.py now fails when it drifts.
UPGRADES. The payload copy merges, so a plugin dropped from a site's profile kept
its code forever - which defeats a lean build and leaves core's optional-import
guards succeeding for a plugin the site no longer has. Stale plugin directories
are now deregistered and removed before the copy.
add-plugin used 'plugin install', which for the five default_enabled=false
plugins left them installed but DISABLED - and printed a green success line
anyway. It now goes through apply-profile, and the success line is gated on the
exit code. Invoke-Flask records its own exit status, because $LASTEXITCODE keeps
a stale value when flask.exe is missing and no native command runs.
CHARSET. The utf8mb4 compiler hook lived inline in migrations/env.py, so it
covered the CORE chain only: plugin baselines inherited the server default, which
on a latin1 server means two charsets in one database. It is now
shopdb/utils/mysql_charset.py, imported by both, and preflight reports the
database's default charset.
BACKUP HONESTY. The dump was described as 'all of your asset data'. Uploaded
branding and floor-map images live in instance\ on disk, not in the database, so
a restore from the .sql alone comes back with no map. backup now archives
instance\ alongside it and says both are needed.
VERSIONING. AppVersion was hardcoded at 0.9.0 while the product, the frontend and
the newest tag said 0.7.0 - and 0.9.0 collides with a retired contract version.
Both builders now generate version.iss from shopdb/__init__.py.
Smaller: rollback overwrites .env before deleting it, as uninstall already did;
appcmd unlocks are scoped to this site's location rather than server-wide, with
the wide unlock as a fallback; DEVELOPMENT-SETUP says Python 3.14; the README
plugin list gains printedparts; prune-schema --force is documented as
first-provisioning-only; HTTPS is documented as not-the-default with the steps to
add it; the DBA SQL is on the wizard's database page; the features page says
unticking does not remove an installed feature; and the installer README states
that bundle-lock cannot vouch for the exe itself - that needs signing or an
out-of-band hash, neither of which is wired up.
