When Something's Wrong, You Shouldn't Need SSH
A crashed service. A broken nginx config after a manual edit. A disk quietly filling up with old logs. A home directory with the wrong file ownership after someone ran a command as the wrong user. These are the everyday problems that eat up an admin's time — usually solved by SSHing in, running a handful of commands, and hoping nothing else breaks along the way.
Panelica's Repair Tool turns that troubleshooting session into a dashboard: it scans the server, tells you what is wrong, and fixes it with one click.
What It Does
Health Dashboard
The Repair Tool runs a set of checks against the server and reports each one as OK, Warning, or Critical — covering services, sockets, disk space, and file ownership.
Preview Before You Apply
Every fix can be previewed first, so you see exactly what it is going to do before anything changes. Fixes marked as destructive require an extra confirmation step.
What It Can Fix
- Service restart — restarts a stopped or misbehaving service, with an idempotent check so it will not restart something that is already healthy.
- Config regenerate — rebuilds a domain's nginx configuration, backing up the previous config and validating the new one before applying it. If the new config does not pass validation, it rolls back automatically instead of taking the site down.
- Disk cleanup — clears temporary files, cache, trash, and rotated log files. It never touches databases, backups, or quarantined files.
- File ownership repair — fixes a home directory or domain's file ownership without breaking the directories the web server needs to write to, such as logs and session storage.
Per-User Permission Table
Alongside the general checks, the Repair Tool lists every user account with its home directory ownership status, and gives you a one-click fix for that specific user — without touching every other account on the server.
Always-On Maintenance
A "Free up disk space" action is always available in the Maintenance section, independent of whether the health scan currently flags disk space as a problem.
How to Use It
- Log in to your Panelica panel with a ROOT account.
- Open Tools and select Repair.
- Review the health dashboard — see how many checks are OK, how many need attention, and how many are critical.
- Click into a warning or critical item to preview exactly what the suggested fix will do.
- Apply the fix. Destructive actions ask for confirmation first.
- The affected check re-scans automatically so you see the updated status right away.
- For ownership issues on a specific account, use the per-user permission table to fix that one user without touching the rest.
Why It Matters
Most of the problems that show up on a self-managed server are routine — the same handful of things going wrong in the same handful of ways. The Repair Tool means fixing them does not require remembering the right service-restart command or double-checking a file-ownership command late at night. It is the same idea behind the repair utilities built into other panels, applied to Panelica's own architecture and made safe by design: previews, automatic backups before config changes, and fixes that are scoped narrowly enough not to break what is already working.
Get it now: the Repair Tool is available on the latest Panelica release. Update your panel, then open Tools > Repair to run your first health scan.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can the Repair Tool break my site's configuration?
Config changes are backed up first and validated before being applied; if validation fails, Panelica rolls back automatically.
Will disk cleanup delete my backups?
No. Disk cleanup only removes temporary files, cache, trash, and rotated logs — it never touches databases, backups, or quarantined files.
Who can access the Repair Tool?
It is available to ROOT-level accounts.