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Admin Cpanel on staging STAGING

The internal NIX Cpanel (super-admin — tenant provisioning, subscriptions, impersonation) had no staging surface: it only existed at prod admin.nixtech.app pointed at prod api.nixtech.app. It's now stood up at admin.staging.nixtech.app, wired to the Fly staging backend + Neon nix_db_staging. Same user-facing URL as prod; real super-admin login works end to end.

How. Built the admin (nix-OS-cpanel) with a new .env.staging (VITE_API_BASE_URL=https://api.staging.nixtech.app) into a direct-upload Pages project nix-outdoor-sales-admin-staging. The prod router lists admin as a passthrough (its own DNS); staging has only the *.staging.nixtech.app wildcard, so the staging router now proxies the admin subdomain to that Pages project instead of passthrough — no new DNS record needed.

Login page

Admin cpanel login on staging — The cpanel login rendering at `admin.staging.nixtech.app/login`, served through the staging router → the staging admin Pages project.

Logged-in Overview

Admin cpanel overview on staging after login — After a real super-admin login (`admin@nixoutdoor.com`), landing on the `/overview` dashboard — `POST api.staging.nixtech.app/admin/auth/login` returned 200 with a `super_admin` token.

Bug found & fixed en route

vue-i18n "Invalid linked format" crash. The login page rendered blank: two en.json placeholders held a literal @ (admin@nixoutdoor.com, owner@company.com), which vue-i18n parses as its linked-message char and throws on. Prod survives only because its deployed bundle predates those strings (confirmed — the prod bundle doesn't contain them), so the next prod admin deploy would break identically. Fixed by escaping to {'@'} (vue-i18n literal syntax). Committed on dev — a real prod-relevant fix for a future promote.

Checks

`admin.staging.nixtech.app/` and `/login`	HTTP 200
SPA renders (email input present, zero console errors) after the i18n fix	pass
Real UI login `admin@nixoutdoor.com` → lands on `/overview`	200, super_admin
App calls the staging API, not prod	api.staging.nixtech.app
Staging smoke regression (router change didn't break cafe/commerce/outdoor)	5/5

Notes

Staging admin operators already existed in nix_db_staging: admin@nixoutdoor.com (works with the standard super-admin password) + staging-admin@nixoutdoor.com.
The staging admin Pages project is direct-upload (not git-connected), like the other staging surfaces — it updates only on an explicit wrangler pages deploy.
nix-router-staging is not a git repo; its staging-only admin-proxy branch lives on disk and is deployed to the nix-router-staging Worker.

nix-OS-cpanel dev 7a29a9e (i18n fix 272c023 + .env.staging). Pages nix-outdoor-sales-admin-staging + staging router redeploy. No migration.