src/cli.rs

@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ pub struct Cli {
     pub patches_unsupported_servuo: bool,
     /// `--host <name>`: the hostname to print in the website URLs.
     pub host: Option<String>,
-    /// `--site-url <url>`: the site's base URL, for the Admin → Shard link.
+    /// `--site-url <url>`: the site's base URL, for the Admin → Shard (uo-link) link.
     pub site_url: Option<String>,
     /// `--yes`: assume the default answer to every prompt.
     pub assume_yes: bool,
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ Options:
       --host <NAME>                  install. The hostname to print in the
                                      website URLs.
       --site-url <URL>               install. Your site's base URL, for the
-                                     Admin → Shard link.
+                                     Admin → Shard (uo-link) link.
       --yes                          Assume the default answer to every prompt.
                                      On uninstall it means yes: that prompt
                                      defaults to no, and typing `uninstall

src/sidecar.rs

@@ -294,6 +294,18 @@ fn port_of(bind: &str) -> &str {
     }
 }
 
+/// Where the shard settings live in the website's admin panel.
+///
+/// NOT `/admin/shard`, which is what this printed until 2026-08-24 and what an operator who ran
+/// an older build still has in their scrollback. Those screens belong to the `uo` MODULE now, and
+/// a module owns one path segment wherever it appears (website `MODULE_SYSTEM.md` §2.8), so the
+/// page moved. The old path does not 404 — the SPA sends it to the dashboard, which is the worst
+/// way for a link in a handoff to be wrong, because it looks like it worked.
+///
+/// API routes are NOT affected by that rule and keep `/api/v1/admin/shard/*`. This is the SPA URL
+/// a person types.
+const ADMIN_SHARD_PATH: &str = "/admin/uo/link";
+
 /// The end-of-run block from PLAN.md §6 — the one manual step the installer cannot do.
 ///
 /// Returned as a string rather than printed so it can be tested, and so the caller decides where it
@@ -312,12 +324,13 @@ pub fn handoff(doc: &ConfigDoc, host: &str, site_url: Option<&str>) -> String {
          Protocol version  {protocol}\n  \
          Auth token        {token}\n                    \
          (also in {config})\n\n\
-         Paste these into  Admin → Shard  on your Runic Gateway site:\n  \
-         {site}/admin/shard\n\n\
+         Paste these into  Admin → Shard (uo-link)  on your Runic Gateway site:\n  \
+         {site}{admin_path}\n\n\
          The token is write-only once saved — the site will never show it back to you.\n",
         protocol = doc.protocol,
         token = doc.web.auth_token,
         config = doc.config_path,
+        admin_path = ADMIN_SHARD_PATH,
     )
 }
 
@@ -401,7 +414,7 @@ mod tests {
         assert!(block.contains(&doc.web.auth_token), "{block}");
         // The trailing slash on the site URL must not produce a double slash in the link.
         assert!(
-            block.contains("https://my-site.example/admin/shard"),
+            block.contains("https://my-site.example/admin/uo/link"),
             "{block}"
         );
         assert!(block.contains("/etc/runicgateway/sidecar.toml"), "{block}");
@@ -412,7 +425,10 @@ mod tests {
         // An unattended run has nobody to ask, and the token is far too useful to withhold over a
         // link the operator does not need.
         let block = handoff(&doc(), "shard", None);
-        assert!(block.contains("https://<your-site>/admin/shard"), "{block}");
+        assert!(
+            block.contains("https://<your-site>/admin/uo/link"),
+            "{block}"
+        );
         assert!(block.contains("4f9c"), "{block}");
     }
 

src/update.rs

@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ pub fn closing(prior: Option<&InstallRecord>, bundle: &Bundle, now: &InstallReco
         println!();
         ui::warn(&format!(
             "The protocol version changed: {} → {}.\n  \
-             Update the Protocol version field in Admin → Shard on your website. Nothing else \
+             Update the Protocol version field in Admin → Shard (uo-link) on your website. Nothing else \
              changed —\n  the URLs and the auth token are the same, and the sidecar answers a \
              website still set to\n  {} with 409 rather than mis-parsing it.",
             previous_protocol.unwrap_or(bundle.protocol),