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+# View unpublished trips (drafts) on the frontend when logged in
+
+**Status:** 📋 Not started
+
+## Motivation
+
+An unpublished trip (`published: false`) currently returns a hard **404** on its own
+route, even for the logged-in owner. Example: `http://localhost:8081/trips/denmark-2026`
+→ `HTTP 404` (verified 2026-07-08, anonymous *and* authenticated). The owner should be
+able to preview a draft trip page at its real URL before publishing, while the public
+still gets a 404.
+
+The rest of the site is **already owner-aware** — the trip template, the trips listing,
+and the home page all render drafts to `grav.user.authenticated` (via `.published()`
+filters + `is-draft`/Draft badges). The only missing piece is the **direct route** to a
+draft's own page.
+
+## Current behaviour — verified mechanism
+
+Traced through the Grav core running in the container (Grav 2.0.x):
+
+- `Page::routable()` (`system/src/Grav/Common/Page/Page.php`) returns:
+  ```php
+  return $this->routable && $this->published();
+  ```
+  So `published: false` ⇒ `routable()` is `false`, regardless of the `routable` flag.
+
+- `PagesProcessor.php:67` gates the request on exactly that:
+  ```php
+  if (!$page->routable()) {
+      // build 404, fire onPageNotFound...
+  }
+  ```
+
+- `PagesProcessor.php` ~line 80: after firing `onPageNotFound`, if a listener set
+  `$event->page`, Grav serves **that** page directly with no further routable check:
+  ```php
+  if (isset($event->page)) {
+      unset($this->container['page']);
+      $this->container['page'] = $page = $event->page;
+  } else {
+      throw new RuntimeException('Page Not Found', 404);
+  }
+  ```
+
+That last hook is the clean insertion point.
+
+## Proposed approach — small custom plugin (~40 lines)
+
+Mirror the existing `user/plugins/cache-on-save/` custom-plugin pattern. Subscribe to
+`onPageNotFound` and, for authenticated users only, resolve the requested route including
+unpublished pages and hand it back:
+
+```php
+public function onPageNotFound(Event $e) {
+    $user = $this->grav['user'];
+    if (!$user->authenticated) {
+        return;                                      // owners only — public still 404s
+    }
+    $route = $this->grav['uri']->path();
+    $page  = $this->grav['pages']->find($route, true); // include unpublished
+    if ($page && !$page->published()) {
+        $e->page = $page;                            // serve the draft → 200
+        $e->stopPropagation();
+    }
+}
+```
+
+The page then renders with its normal template. Because the theme is already owner-aware,
+the trip page will display correctly for the logged-in owner.
+
+## Decisions to make before building (brainstorm first)
+
+1. **Scope of page types.** All unpublished pages, or just the trip tree
+   (`/trips/*`)? Entries and stories already show inline as drafts on the owner's trip
+   feed; do they also need standalone-route preview? Leaning: gate to trip/entry/story
+   templates to avoid unintentionally exposing every draft everywhere.
+2. **Draft banner.** Add a trip-level "Draft — not published" banner when viewing an
+   unpublished trip (entry-level draft badges already exist; this is the trip equivalent).
+3. **Non-existent vs. unpublished.** Ensure a genuinely missing route still 404s — the
+   `find(..., true)` + `!published()` check already distinguishes them, but cover it in a test.
+
+## The one real risk — page-cache leak to the public
+
+If Grav caches the 200 we serve to the owner and later hands it to an anonymous visitor,
+the "owners only" gate is defeated. **Verify, don't assume:**
+
+- Grav's Login plugin disables page caching for authenticated sessions by default.
+- The theme already serves owner-only draft *content* inline today, so this exposure is
+  presumably mitigated somewhere already.
+
+Add an explicit **anonymous-request assertion** (draft route → 404 for anon, even
+after an authenticated hit warmed any cache).
+
+## Testing
+
+Playwright spec:
+- Authenticated owner → `GET /trips/<draft-slug>` returns 200 and renders the trip page.
+- Anonymous → same route returns 404.
+- Anonymous after an authenticated hit → still 404 (cache-leak guard).
+- Genuinely missing route → 404 for everyone.
+
+## Effort
+
+**Low** — roughly half a day including the Playwright spec. Single custom plugin plus an
+optional small theme partial for the draft banner.
+
+## References
+
+- Investigation session: 2026-07-08 ("hotfixes").
+- Pattern to copy: `user/plugins/cache-on-save/`.
+- Related owner-aware theme logic: `templates/trip.html.twig` (`owner_can_edit`),
+  `templates/trips.html.twig` (`is_owner`), `templates/home.html.twig`.