The entire admin surface of the SPA had been dead since auth landed
(5ed8d9e / 3bc9f2d). nginx.conf.template injected only
`Authorization: Bearer ${MUZICK_API_KEY}` for all of /api, docker-compose
passed only MUZICK_API_KEY to the frontend container, and app.ts requires
token === adminKey for /api/admin/*. The two keys differ, and
services/api.ts sets no headers of its own.
All 10 admin call sites were affected: the Jobs page polled 403s every
3s/5s forever and rendered a blank Overview with no error state, and every
Settings library action (Scan, Reindex, Reprocess artists, Re-enrich,
Duplicates merge) silently failed.
Three changes, each necessary:
- a `location /api/admin/` block injecting the admin key
- the Dockerfile envsubst list widened to include MUZICK_ADMIN_KEY,
without which the new variable substitutes to empty and the header
becomes a bare "Bearer"
- MUZICK_ADMIN_KEY passed to the frontend service in docker-compose
nginx selects the longest matching prefix regardless of block order;
verified empirically in a throwaway nginx:stable-alpine running the real
envsubst output against a stub that echoes $http_authorization:
/api/admin/queue-stats -> Bearer ADMINKEY456
/api/admin/duplicates/merge -> Bearer ADMINKEY456
/api/tracks -> Bearer APIKEY123
/api/health -> Bearer APIKEY123
All 10 call sites use /admin/... under the axios /api baseURL and none
request bare /api/admin without a trailing slash.
Also gives the Jobs page an error state: a banner that names a 401/403 as a
missing or wrong admin key, a Retry button, "Loading queue stats..." in
place of a blank Overview, and refetchInterval returning false once the
query has errored so it stops hammering a failing endpoint.
Deletes frontend/nginx.conf — unreferenced by the Dockerfile (confirmed by
grep) and the insecure variant of the template.
Worth noting and not addressed here: the outer LAN-only proxy already
forges credentials for everything reaching /api, so this key split buys no
real security while having cost the whole admin surface. Collapsing to one
key would be simpler.
REVIEW-2026-07-30.md finding 2.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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