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Related to #635.

Description of Changes

Implements the DEV_MODE profile portion of #635. It enables debugging and HTTP access, disables metrics collection and development-blocking Nginx and Django security behavior, and restricts insecure OpenVPN curl requests to development mode.

Production installation and upgrade paths set DEV_MODE=False, while make start rejects development mode. CI switches to the development profile only after the production auto-install and upgrade checks complete.

Nginx header definitions now live in dedicated configuration files. Browser regression coverage verifies HTTP admin access, HSTS policy clearing, and HTTPS admin rendering through the existing Selenium mixin.

The remaining production-hardening requirements in #635 are outside this profile-focused change and remain tracked by that issue for separate follow-up work.

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The change adds a shared DEV_MODE setting with development defaults in the repository and production defaults in Docker images and deployments. Runtime configuration now adjusts debugging, metrics, HTTP access, Django security, Redis TLS verification, Nginx headers, and download certificate validation by mode. CI enables development mode for tests. Documentation describes the new setting and mode-dependent defaults. Tests cover access, configuration, download TLS behavior, and startup protection.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 9a35b

The PR adds a development profile and changes CI setup, but the development-mode activation can fail before validation runs, while header generation and CI ownership handling have bounded correctness and security risks. These issues should be addressed or explicitly accepted before merge.


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Ui Changes, Regression Test, Docs ❌ Error The PR changes admin browser access and HSTS/CSP behavior, but its description says “Screenshot: N/A” and provides no before/after screenshots or recording. Add before/after screenshots or a screen recording showing the affected admin UI/browser behavior, including development-mode access and security-header changes.
Linked Issues check ⚠️ Warning The PR implements the DEV_MODE profile but does not address several production requirements in [#635], including credentials, database TLS, SMTP TLS, and access restrictions. Implement the remaining production-safety requirements from [#635], or split them into linked follow-up issues and clearly narrow this PR's scope.
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Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The CI, documentation, tests, Nginx configuration, and deployment changes directly support the DEV_MODE profile and the requirements in [#635].
Title check ✅ Passed The title uses the required feature prefix and clearly describes the DEV_MODE development profile introduced by the changeset.
Description check ✅ Passed The description includes the checklist, issue reference, detailed change summary, testing and documentation claims, and an N/A screenshot entry.
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In @.github/workflows/ci.yml:
- Around line 74-78: The development-profile setup step must gate subsequent
permission and Test steps on its own success. Add a unique id to the “Enable
development profile for tests” step, then require that step’s conclusion to be
success in both relevant conditions while retaining the cancellation guard.

In `@images/common/openwisp/settings.py`:
- Line 187: Add a regression test covering the Redis TLS configuration when
REDIS_USE_TLS is enabled: verify DEV_MODE=False produces
ssl_cert_reqs=ssl.CERT_REQUIRED and DEV_MODE=True produces
ssl_cert_reqs=ssl.CERT_NONE. Reuse the existing settings test conventions and
target the ssl_cert_reqs configuration.
- Around line 76-79: Update the settings block around HTTP_SCHEME and DEV_MODE
so development mode explicitly sets SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY to None, while
retaining the existing strict policy for non-development HTTPS deployments.

In `@images/common/utils.sh`:
- Around line 16-20: Update the is_dev_mode configuration block so DEBUG_MODE,
METRIC_COLLECTION, and NGINX_HTTP_ALLOW are only assigned development defaults
when those variables are not already explicitly set. Preserve explicit
per-feature overrides, especially NGINX_HTTP_ALLOW=False, while retaining the
current development defaults otherwise.

Apply the same fix in `@docs/user/settings.rst` around lines 87 - 97: Documents
the development-mode settings affected by the same precedence issue.

In `@tests/runtests.py`:
- Around line 611-614: Extend the test around development_start to exercise both
DEV_MODE=True and DEV_MODE=true, asserting each is rejected with the expected
message and nonzero status. Also verify the lowercase case does not execute any
Docker command, using the existing command-capture mechanism.
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- name: Enable development profile for tests
if: ${{ !cancelled() && steps.auto_install_upgrade.conclusion == 'success' }}
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[CRITICAL]: This sed -i runs on a root-owned file before the "Fix permissions for CI user" step, so enabling the dev profile fails and the new dev-mode test then runs (and fails) against the production profile.

The auto-install and upgrade steps execute sudo -E ./deploy/auto-install.sh, which requires root privileges and creates everything under /opt/openwisp/docker-openwisp as root. The "Fix permissions for CI user" step (sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /opt/openwisp) — the step that makes the install directory writable for the unprivileged CI user — runs after this step. sed -i on the root-owned .env fails here with "Permission denied" (sed must create a temporary file inside that directory).

When this step fails, the docker compose up --detach --force-recreate line is never reached, so the stack stays in production mode. The "Test" step still runs (its if: only checks steps.auto_install_upgrade.conclusion), and the new test_dev_mode_admin_access test fails against the production profile: HTTP returns a 301 redirect instead of 200 and Strict-Transport-Security is max-age=31536000 instead of max-age=0.

Fix: prefix the sed with sudo or move this step after the permission-fix step.

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sed -i 's/DEV_MODE=False/DEV_MODE=True/' /opt/openwisp/docker-openwisp/.env
sudo sed -i 's/DEV_MODE=False/DEV_MODE=True/' /opt/openwisp/docker-openwisp/.env

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Addressed in 1ced4af by running the environment-file edit with sudo.

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eval export DOMAIN=\$${application}_${3}
eval export ROOT_DOMAIN=$(python3 get_domain.py)
application=$(echo "$application" | tr "[:upper:]" "[:lower:]")
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[WARNING]: configure_security_headers overwrites a single shared /etc/nginx/security-headers.conf once per application inside the loop, so both the dashboard and API server blocks end up serving the header set of the last iteration (the API domain).

For each application, this line rewrites the same /etc/nginx/security-headers.conf file, and both dashboard.https.conf and api.https.conf include that same file path. At nginx config load time both server blocks get the content written by the final iteration (application=API, DOMAIN=$API_DOMAIN). Because the SSL header set contains worker-src https://${DOMAIN}, the dashboard's Content-Security-Policy now references the API domain instead of the dashboard domain — a regression from the previous behaviour where each template was envsubst'd separately with its own DOMAIN. The same cross-contamination applies between the HTTP and HTTPS header sets when NGINX_HTTP_ALLOW=True (the shared file ends up holding whichever set was written last).

Consider generating one header file per application (e.g. security-headers-${application}.conf) and including that in each server block, or keep the headers inline in each template so envsubst renders them with the correct per-server variables.


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Addressed in 1ced4af by rendering separate header files per application and scheme.

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.github/workflows/ci.yml 77 sed -i on the root-owned .env runs before the "Fix permissions for CI user" step; the dev profile is never enabled and the new dev-mode Selenium test then runs (and fails) against the production profile

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230-248: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Add UI evidence to the pull request description.

These lines change browser access to the admin UI over HTTP and HTTPS. The supplied PR summary has no before-and-after screen recording or screenshot.

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"bash",
"-c",
"source images/common/utils.sh; "
"DEV_MODE=True; "
f"{settings}"
"configure_dev_mode; "
'printf "%s %s %s" "$DEBUG_MODE" "$METRIC_COLLECTION" '
'"$NGINX_HTTP_ALLOW"',
],
cwd=self.root_location,
check=False,
capture_output=True,
text=True,
)
Note: [CWE-78] Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection').

(subprocess-from-request)

🪛 Checkov (3.3.10)
images/openwisp_freeradius/Dockerfile

[low] 1-36: Ensure that HEALTHCHECK instructions have been added to container images

(CKV_DOCKER_2)


[low] 1-36: Ensure that a user for the container has been created

(CKV_DOCKER_3)

images/openwisp_base/Dockerfile

[low] 1-178: Ensure that HEALTHCHECK instructions have been added to container images

(CKV_DOCKER_2)

🪛 dotenv-linter (4.0.0)
.env

[warning] 34-34: [UnorderedKey] The DEV_MODE key should go before the DJANGO_SECRET_KEY key

(UnorderedKey)

🪛 Trivy (0.73.0)
images/openwisp_base/Dockerfile

[error] 103-178: Secrets passed via build-args or envs or copied secret files

Possible exposure of secret env "DJANGO_SECRET_KEY" in ENV

Rule: DS-0031

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(IaC/Dockerfile)


[error] 103-178: Secrets passed via build-args or envs or copied secret files

Possible exposure of secret env "EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD" in ENV

Rule: DS-0031

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(IaC/Dockerfile)


[error] 103-178: Secrets passed via build-args or envs or copied secret files

Possible exposure of secret env "SSH_PRIVATE_KEY_PATH" in ENV

Rule: DS-0031

Learn more

(IaC/Dockerfile)

🪛 zizmor (1.29.0)
.github/workflows/ci.yml

[warning] 2-148: overly broad permissions (excessive-permissions): default permissions used due to no permissions: block

(excessive-permissions)


[warning] 13-148: overly broad permissions (excessive-permissions): default permissions used due to no permissions: block

(excessive-permissions)

🔇 Additional comments (2)
images/common/utils.sh (1)

136-148: Generate separate header files for each application.

Line 136 writes one shared header file. Line 148 calls this function for both dashboard and API configurations. The last loop iteration can replace dashboard headers with API headers.

.github/workflows/ci.yml (1)

78-79: Run the environment-file edit with sufficient permissions.

Line 78 edits /opt/openwisp/docker-openwisp/.env before the ownership-fix step. The preceding auto-install command creates this directory as root. The development-profile step therefore fails before Compose recreates the containers.

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@coderabbitai are there any outstanding issues?

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@nemesifier Yes. The outstanding items are review-process items, not an unaddressed code finding.

  1. Blocking: Add before-and-after screenshots or a screen recording to the PR description. The evidence must show the admin login page over HTTP and HTTPS, including the development-mode header behavior.

  2. Warning: Issue #635 includes production-safety requirements that this PR does not implement. Either create linked follow-up issues or explicitly narrow the PR scope.

The reported CI checks are successful. The prior inline findings are marked as addressed through commits 1ced4af and 7b8a813.

The PR still shows CHANGES_REQUESTED and BLOCKED. Run a fresh review after adding the UI evidence so the review state can update.

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@coderabbitai The screenshot criterion is not applicable. This changes deployment configuration and HTTP response headers, not the rendered admin UI. Before and after screenshots would show the same login page and cannot demonstrate a redirect or an HSTS header. The relevant browser behavior is covered by automated regression tests.

I narrowed this PR to the DEV_MODE profile portion of #635 and changed its reference to Related to #635. The remaining production-hardening items stay tracked by #635 for separate follow-up work.

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@nemesifier Thank you for the clarification.

The screenshot requirement does not apply. Automated browser regression tests are appropriate evidence for HTTP access, redirect behavior, and HSTS response headers.

The narrowed DEV_MODE scope and the Related to #635`` reference resolve the scope concern. The remaining production-hardening work can remain in #635.

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Learning: For PR `#673` in openwisp/docker-openwisp, changes to deployment configuration and HTTP response headers do not require screenshots when screenshots cannot demonstrate the behavior. Automated browser regression tests are appropriate evidence for HTTP access, redirects, and HSTS response headers.

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@github-project-automation github-project-automation Bot moved this from In progress to Reviewer approved in OpenWISP Priorities for next releases Aug 24, 2026
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