diff --git a/pages/02.post/post-form.md b/pages/02.post/post-form.md
index c8431ea..16fc967 100644
--- a/pages/02.post/post-form.md
+++ b/pages/02.post/post-form.md
@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@ template: post-form
 access:
     site.login: true
 
-# Keep in sync with active_trip in user/config/site.yaml
+# Parent (write target) is injected server-side from site.active_trip by the
+# cache-on-save plugin (onFormValidationProcessed) — no manual sync needed.
 pageconfig:
-    parent: '/trips/italy-2026-demo/dailies'
     slug_field: 'date,title'
     overwrite_mode: false
 
diff --git a/plugins/cache-on-save/cache-on-save.php b/plugins/cache-on-save/cache-on-save.php
index 3b91101..a89886a 100644
--- a/plugins/cache-on-save/cache-on-save.php
+++ b/plugins/cache-on-save/cache-on-save.php
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 <?php
 namespace Grav\Plugin;
 
+use Grav\Common\Data\ValidationException;
 use Grav\Common\Plugin;
 use RocketTheme\Toolbox\Event\Event;
 
@@ -9,10 +10,59 @@ class CacheOnSavePlugin extends Plugin
     public static function getSubscribedEvents(): array
     {
         return [
+            // Runs before add-page-by-form's onFormProcessed (page write), so it
+            // can inject the write target and abort the submit by failing validation.
+            'onFormValidationProcessed' => ['onFormValidationProcessed', 0],
             'onFormProcessed' => ['onFormProcessed', 0],
         ];
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Server-authoritative active-trip parent injection.
+     *
+     * The post form no longer hardcodes `pageconfig.parent`; instead the write
+     * target is derived from `site.active_trip` at submit time and injected into
+     * the form data. add-page-by-form reads `$form->value()->toArray()['parent']`
+     * (add-page-by-form.php:521) and honours it over any pageconfig/header parent.
+     *
+     * Fail closed: if `active_trip` is unset/empty we throw a ValidationException
+     * so the `add_page` action never runs. Merely leaving `parent` unset is unsafe —
+     * with `pageconfig.parent` removed, add-page-by-form's `getParentPage('')`
+     * resolves to the /post page itself and the entry would silently land there.
+     */
+    public function onFormValidationProcessed(Event $event): void
+    {
+        $form = $event['form'];
+        if (!$form || $form->getName() !== 'new-entry') {
+            return;
+        }
+
+        $activeTrip = $this->grav['config']->get('site.active_trip');
+        $activeTrip = is_string($activeTrip) ? trim($activeTrip) : '';
+
+        if ($activeTrip === '') {
+            throw new ValidationException('No active trip is set — cannot post an entry. Set site.active_trip first.');
+        }
+
+        $form->setData('parent', $this->resolveDailiesParent($activeTrip));
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Normalise `active_trip` to its dailies container route.
+     *
+     * Accepts either a full route ("/trips/italy-2026-demo") or a bare slug
+     * ("italy-2026-demo") and returns "/trips/<slug>/dailies".
+     */
+    private function resolveDailiesParent(string $activeTrip): string
+    {
+        $trip = trim($activeTrip, '/');
+        if (strpos($trip, 'trips/') !== 0) {
+            $trip = 'trips/' . $trip;
+        }
+
+        return '/' . $trip . '/dailies';
+    }
+
     public function onFormProcessed(Event $event): void
     {
         $form = $event['form'];