Three problems were silently breaking the prod Tuxedo redesign and
the offline DB error swallowed all visibility into them:
1. `next start` against `output: "standalone"` is unsupported. Next.js
prints "next start does not work with output: standalone" and
silently disables the image optimizer — every `/_next/image?url=...`
returned "url parameter is not allowed". pm2 was previously
started as `pm2 start npm -- start -- -p 3100`. Switched to
`node /home/tyler/route-commerce/scripts/start-standalone.cjs`.
2. The standalone server reads `.next/static/` relative to itself, so
deploy must `cp -r .next/static .next/standalone/.next/static` on
every sync. Without this, every `_next/static/chunks/*.js` returns
404 and the page hydration dies. Added to the deploy workflow.
3. bash's `set -a; . ./.env` truncates DATABASE_URL at the `&` in
`&channel_binding=require`, so the standalone server boots with
empty DB env. `getBrandSettingsPublic` then caught the empty-pool
error and returned `{success:false, error:'Failed to fetch brand settings'}`,
so `state.heroImageUrl` stayed null and the hero poster never
rendered. The new `scripts/start-standalone.cjs` parses .env in
Node (which handles `&` correctly) and exec's the server with the
loaded env.
4. `getBrandSettingsPublic` queried `ws.wholesale_enabled`, which
no longer exists in `wholesale_settings`. The schema migration
renamed it to `online_payment_enabled`. Switched the column
reference and added a console.error log so future drift surfaces
instead of being swallowed by the empty catch.
Plus `next.config.ts` had `hostname: "s3.crispygoat.com"` added
under `images.remotePatterns` so the optimizer accepts MinIO URLs.
Nora