If multi-site has a different domain per site, live preview crashes the system when used on a new, unsaved entry
Nobody has claimed this yet.
- Dominant language
- PHP
- Stars
- 3.6k
- Forks
- 705
- Avg merge
- 1d 5h
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 134
Description
Description
Our site has a different domain for each site:
https://www.thewriter.com/ - en-US
https://www.thewriter.co.uk/ - en-GB
Our admin is only accessible via https://www.thewriter.com/admin
We've discovered that if you create a brand new entry, with the site set to en-GB, and then click live preview, we get an internal server error. The admin then continues to bug out such as logging the user out regularly after that.
Steps to reproduce
- assign a different domain to two multi-sites
- access the admin from one multi-site but switch the site drop down the other inside the CMS.
- create a new entry assigned to that other site (whose domain is not the CMS domain), and click live preview without saving
Additional info
- Craft version:Craft Pro 3.6.5.1
- PHP version:8.0.2
- Database driver & version:MySQL 8.0.20
- Plugins & versions:
Logs
These are the two logs that seem relevant:
apache_access 108.162.229.250 - - [09/Apr/2021:13:06:28 +0000] "POST /index.php?p=admin/actions/preview/create-token HTTP/1.1" 403 1676 "https://www.thewriter.com/admin/entries/whitepapers/19097?site=default&draftId=201&fresh=1" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/89.0.4389.90 Safari/537.36"
apache_access 108.162.229.250 - - [09/Apr/2021:13:06:27 +0000] "POST /index.php?p=admin/actions/entry-revisions/save-draft HTTP/1.1" 200 1702 "https://www.thewriter.com/admin/entries/whitepapers/19097?site=default&draftId=201&fresh=1" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/89.0.4389.90 Safari/537.36"
apache_access 108.162.229.250 - - [09/Apr/2021:13:06:28 +0000] "POST /index.php?p=admin/actions/preview/create-token HTTP/1.1" 403 1676 "https://www.thewriter.com/admin/entries/whitepapers/19097?site=default&draftId=201&fresh=1" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/89.0.4389.90 Safari/537.36"
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Reproduce the failure with two multi-sites using different domains, switching the admin site, and opening live preview on a new unsaved entry. Start by tracing the admin/actions/preview/create-token and admin/actions/entry-revisions/save-draft requests against the supplied Apache logs. Done means live preview works for the unsaved entry without a 403, internal server error, or subsequent admin logout.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- mysql, php
- Domain
- backend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100