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Repeated cloud start requests currently stop and restart Static Remote Access even when it is already active, causing nginx to reload every five minutes. Reuse healthy active static access while preserving timeout and request metadata; retain restarts for settings changes, disabled WAN access, recorded errors, and mode changes.

Reuse requires a confirmed successful nginx reload. Propagate the reload result through the existing WAN event handlers and await their completion. A failed reload records an error and permits the next request to retry. Each start has its own completion proof, which a stop invalidates before disabling WAN access. Stale completion cannot overwrite metadata or errors, reset newer state, or make a stopped or newer pending start reusable.

The settings writer explicitly stops access before changing configuration, so a new static WAN port still takes effect. UPnP lease creation and renewal retain their existing behavior.

Work intent: implement the directly assigned, validated report https://product.unraid.net/p/nginx-reloaded-every-5-min-by-unraid-api-remotestartremoteaccess-static-remote-access-7-3-3-api-4-37-5.

Validation: 138 Connect plugin tests pass, including 19 transition regressions using the real Nest event registration and NetworkService. Coverage includes failed reload followed by retry and reuse, missing or suppressed acknowledgements, pending starts, stale success or failure, newer starts or stops during teardown, metadata, timeout, settings, and UPnP transitions. Both API nginx service tests, the production Connect build, formatting, and git diff checks pass. The failed-reload regression reproduces the review finding against the previous PR source; strengthened concurrency regressions also failed before their fixes. Live appliance validation remains pending.

Dependency manifests and the lockfile are unchanged. Existing advisory dependency audit findings are outside this nginx fix.

Release note: Fixed unnecessary nginx reloads from repeated Static Remote Access requests.

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    • Improved static remote access transitions so access changes wait for network reloads to complete and report reload failures.
    • Reduced the chance that overlapping start and stop requests leave remote access in an incorrect state.
    • Avoided unnecessary restarts when static access is already active and ready, and preserved the current error state when an outdated transition fails.

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Remote-access transitions now await WAN event results and track active startup attempts. The network stack returns the Nginx reload result. Settings updates stop remote access before applying WAN settings. Tests cover reload failures, overlapping requests, repeated requests, disable paths, and UPnP transitions.

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Static remote-access transition

Layer / File(s) Summary
WAN reload acknowledgement
packages/unraid-api-plugin-connect/src/network/network.service.ts, packages/unraid-api-plugin-connect/src/network/wan-access.events.ts, packages/unraid-api-plugin-connect/src/remote-access/static-remote-access.service.ts
The network stack returns the Nginx reload result, and WAN event handlers return the reload promise. Static remote-access startup and shutdown await WAN event results. Startup throws Failed to reload nginx for Static Remote Access if the enable event returns no results or any result is not exactly true.
Remote-access transition and settings handling
packages/unraid-api-plugin-connect/src/remote-access/dynamic-remote-access.service.ts, packages/unraid-api-plugin-connect/src/unraid-connect/connect-settings.service.ts, packages/unraid-api-plugin-connect/src/__test__/remote-access.test.ts, .limetech/ai-review-markers/*
Dynamic remote access tracks startup attempts and avoids resetting state for stale attempts. It preserves an active STATIC setup only when WAN access is enabled, the attempt is ready, and state has no error. Settings updates stop remote access before applying configuration and enabling the selected type. Tests cover reload outcomes, overlapping transitions, repeated requests, settings changes, and UPnP transitions. The review marker records the patch disposition, commit identifiers, schema version, and no unresolved proportionality findings.

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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Settings
  participant DynamicRemoteAccessService
  participant StaticRemoteAccessService
  participant WanAccessEvent
  participant NetworkService
  Settings->>DynamicRemoteAccessService: request remote-access type
  DynamicRemoteAccessService->>StaticRemoteAccessService: begin static access
  StaticRemoteAccessService->>WanAccessEvent: await WAN enable event
  WanAccessEvent->>NetworkService: reload network stack
  NetworkService-->>WanAccessEvent: return Nginx reload result
  WanAccessEvent-->>StaticRemoteAccessService: return event results
  StaticRemoteAccessService-->>DynamicRemoteAccessService: return URL or reload error
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const staticAccessAlreadyRunning =
input.type === DynamicRemoteAccessType.STATIC &&
state.runningType === DynamicRemoteAccessType.STATIC &&
this.configService.get('connect.config.wanaccess') === true &&
!state.error;

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P1 Badge Do not treat failed network reloads as active static access

When /etc/rc.d/rc.nginx reload fails on the initial static start, NginxService.reload() returns false rather than throwing, while WanAccessEventHandler has already set wanaccess to true; the runtime state also remains STATIC without an error. Every subsequent cloud start therefore matches this predicate and skips setType(), so nginx is never retried and remote access can remain unavailable until a manual transition or restart. Track the reload outcome before considering static access reusable, or otherwise retry after failure.

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async stopRemoteAccess() {
this.eventEmitter.emit(EVENTS.DISABLE_WAN_ACCESS);
await this.eventEmitter.emitAsync(EVENTS.DISABLE_WAN_ACCESS);

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sed -n '1,210p' packages/unraid-api-plugin-connect/src/remote-access/static-remote-access.service.ts
sed -n '1,210p' packages/unraid-api-plugin-connect/src/network/wan-access.events.ts
sed -n '1,210p' packages/unraid-api-plugin-connect/src/network/network.service.ts
rg -n 'stopRemoteAccessForAttempt|reloadNetworkStack|reload\(' packages/unraid-api-plugin-connect/src/remote-access packages/unraid-api-plugin-connect/src/network

Repository: unraid/api

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set -o pipefail
printf '%s\n' '--- nginx bindings and implementation ---'
rg -n -F --glob '*.ts' --glob '*.js' 'class .*Nginx|interface Nginx|reload\(\)|NginxService|NGINX_SERVICE_TOKEN' packages shared 2>/dev/null || true
printf '%s\n' '--- remote access callers and tests ---'
rg -n -F --glob '*.{ts,js}' -- 'stopRemoteAccess(' packages/unraid-api-plugin-connect packages 2>/dev/null || true
rg -n -F --glob '*.{ts,js}' -- 'DISABLE_WAN_ACCESS' packages/unraid-api-plugin-connect packages 2>/dev/null || true
rg -n -F --glob '*.{ts,js}' -- 'Failed to reload nginx for Static Remote Access' packages/unraid-api-plugin-connect 2>/dev/null || true
find packages/unraid-api-plugin-connect -type f \( -iname '*test*' -o -iname '*spec*' \) -print | sort
printf '%s\n' '--- git diff for the focused service ---'
git diff --no-ext-diff 64f1e81006a4af791c8970f21fbdd7f429016842 35999525d71210e9c4a8b172503d820e82c827fb -- packages/unraid-api-plugin-connect/src/remote-access/static-remote-access.service.ts packages/unraid-api-plugin-connect/src/network/wan-access.events.ts packages/unraid-api-plugin-connect/src/network/network.service.ts

Repository: unraid/api

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set -o pipefail
printf '%s\n' '--- nginx files and exact import target ---'
rg --files | rg '(^|/)(nginx|shared)(/|\.|$)|nginx\.ts$|nginx\.js$' | sort
rg -n -F --glob '*.ts' --glob '*.js' -- '@unraid/shared/services/nginx.js' .
rg -n -F --glob '*.ts' --glob '*.js' -- 'class NginxService' .
printf '%s\n' '--- focused tests ---'
nl -ba packages/unraid-api-plugin-connect/src/__test__/remote-access.test.ts | sed -n '1,430p'
printf '%s\n' '--- settings and dynamic callers ---'
nl -ba packages/unraid-api-plugin-connect/src/unraid-connect/connect-settings.service.ts | sed -n '190,235p'
nl -ba packages/unraid-api-plugin-connect/src/remote-access/dynamic-remote-access.service.ts | sed -n '35,175p'

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set -o pipefail
printf '%s\n' '--- shared nginx contract ---'
nl -ba packages/unraid-shared/src/services/nginx.ts
printf '%s\n' '--- API nginx implementation and tests ---'
nl -ba api/src/unraid-api/nginx/nginx.service.ts
nl -ba api/src/unraid-api/nginx/nginx.service.spec.ts | sed -n '1,260p'
printf '%s\n' '--- remaining remote-access tests ---'
nl -ba packages/unraid-api-plugin-connect/src/__test__/remote-access.test.ts | sed -n '417,560p'
printf '%s\n' '--- module registration for WAN handler ---'
rg -n -F --glob '*.ts' -- 'WanAccessEventHandler' packages/unraid-api-plugin-connect
rg -n -F --glob '*.ts' -- 'StaticRemoteAccessService' packages/unraid-api-plugin-connect

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Propagate failed disable reloads.

stopRemoteAccess() ignores the results from DISABLE_WAN_ACCESS. When nginx reload returns false, its caller can reset remote-access state to disabled even though nginx may still serve the previous static configuration. Apply the same acknowledgement check used by beginRemoteAccess().

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    async stopRemoteAccess() {
-        await this.eventEmitter.emitAsync(EVENTS.DISABLE_WAN_ACCESS);
+        const results: unknown[] = await this.eventEmitter.emitAsync(EVENTS.DISABLE_WAN_ACCESS);
+        if (!results.length || results.some((result) => result !== true)) {
+            throw new Error('Failed to reload nginx for Static Remote Access');
+        }
    }
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await this.eventEmitter.emitAsync(EVENTS.DISABLE_WAN_ACCESS);
const results: unknown[] = await this.eventEmitter.emitAsync(EVENTS.DISABLE_WAN_ACCESS);
if (!results.length || results.some((result) => result !== true)) {
throw new Error('Failed to reload nginx for Static Remote Access');
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Update stopRemoteAccess() to validate the results from emitting
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