feat(site): /start creates an account, not an instance

The form posts to admin's signup and the slug preview goes: there is no
instance at this point, and previewing one promises something the
submission does not create. Creating the instance is now a step in the
portal, which the page's What happens next panel spells out.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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mrhid6
2026-07-26 13:37:30 +01:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 5
parent cb90ed12fb
commit 9cf04a6940
3 changed files with 36 additions and 39 deletions
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@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
*/
const SITE_API = (process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_SITE_API ?? "").replace(/\/$/, "");
const ADMIN_API = (process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_ADMIN_API_URL ?? "").replace(/\/$/, "");
const FALLBACK_ADDRESS = process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_CONTACT_EMAIL ?? "support@hostxtra.co.uk";
export type SubmitState = "idle" | "sending" | "sent" | "error";
@@ -56,12 +57,23 @@ export async function submitContact(fields: { name: string; email: string; serve
return post(`${SITE_API}/api/contact`, fields);
}
export async function submitSignup(fields: { instance_name: string; email: string; password: string; website: string }): Promise<SubmitResult> {
if (!SITE_API) {
/*
* Account signup posts to the admin service, not sitesvc. The two form targets
* are deliberately separate variables rather than one base URL: contact and
* signup are owned by different services, and an implied shared host is how they
* silently end up pointing at the wrong one.
*/
export async function submitAccountSignup(fields: {
name: string;
email: string;
password: string;
website: string;
}): Promise<SubmitResult> {
if (!ADMIN_API) {
return {
state: "error",
message: `Signup is not available from here yet. Email ${FALLBACK_ADDRESS} and we will set you up.`,
message: `Signup is not connected yet. Email ${FALLBACK_ADDRESS} and we will set you up.`,
};
}
return post(`${SITE_API}/api/signup`, fields);
return post(`${ADMIN_API}/auth/signup`, fields);
}