Website Core Service

The website core service is the current Zelavis bridge between the internal platform APIs and native public website delivery.

Current role

Today, the website core service does two things:

exposes a versioned API for managing website pages
serves public pages from the Zelavis runtime while keeping the dashboard namespace reserved

Current mounted behavior

With the default runtime:

/zelavis
/zelavis/api/v1/website/pages
/
/*public-page-path

The dashboard stays under /zelavis, while public website pages can occupy / and other non-reserved paths.

Why it is a core service

The website layer is now part of the default runtime because Zelavis should be able to host websites itself on user-controlled infrastructure:

the dashboard and APIs need a protected namespace
public pages need a safe place to live outside that namespace
runtime settings such as page-builder availability depend on whether website support exists

External deployment providers can be targets through plugins if the user chooses them. They should not be treated as the default website hosting model for Zelavis.

Current API surface

Current built-in routes include:

GET /zelavis/api/v1/website/pages
POST /zelavis/api/v1/website/pages

Current behavior includes:

rejecting page paths reserved by the active Zelavis rootPath
storing pages through the configured pages store
rendering a simple public HTML response for matching pages

Storage behavior

When the database core service is available, Zelavis can persist website pages through the built-in database-backed pages store.

That keeps website state aligned with the rest of the runtime instead of inventing a separate storage mechanism for early page-builder features.

Boundaries

The website core service is still intentionally small.

Today it is not:

a full CMS
a theming system
a template engine abstraction layer
a general-purpose frontend framework

Its current job is to reserve the route model and provide a simple persisted page surface that the dashboard and future builder tooling can grow around.