API reference

The panel is driven entirely by this HTTP API — the web UI is just a client of it. It listens on 127.0.0.1:5252 and is reached through nginx.

Authentication

POST /api/login with an email and password sets a session cookie. Send that cookie with every subsequent request.

curl -sk -c jar -b jar https://your-panel/api/login \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"email":"you@example.com","password":"your-password"}'

curl -sk -c jar -b jar https://your-panel/api/sites

The cookie is HttpOnly, Secure and SameSite=Strict, and the token is an opaque random value stored in the database, so sessions can be revoked. Sessions last 24 hours.

If the account has 2FA, the first response is 401 with {"totp_required": true}; repeat the request including "totp":"123456". Each code works once.

Roles

Every endpoint below is marked with the role it needs.

Marker	Requires
open	no authentication
auth	any signed-in account
manage	admin or operator (operators only for their own sites)
global	admin or readonly — not operator, as these are server-wide
admin	admin only

An operator sees and touches only assigned sites; requests for others return 404, not 403, so the API does not confirm that a site exists.

Conventions

• JSON in, JSON out.
• Long operations return 202 with a task; poll the resource or GET /api/tasks/{id}.
• Errors are {"error":"..."} with a meaningful status code.
• Request bodies are capped at 4 MB and unknown fields are rejected.

Setup and session

Method	Path	Role	Purpose
GET	/api/bootstrap	open	whether initial setup is complete
POST	/api/setup	open	consume the one-time token, create the first admin
POST	/api/login	open	sign in
POST	/api/logout	auth	sign out and delete the session
GET	/api/me	auth	the current account
GET	/healthz	open	liveness

Account

Method	Path	Role	Purpose
POST	/api/account/password	auth	change your own password
POST	/api/account/2fa/begin	auth	start TOTP enrolment; returns the secret
POST	/api/account/2fa/confirm	auth	confirm with a code and switch 2FA on
POST	/api/account/2fa/disable	auth	disable 2FA (requires your password)
GET	/api/account/sessions	auth	your active sessions
DELETE	/api/account/sessions/{id}	auth	revoke one

Users

Method	Path	Role	Purpose
GET	/api/users	global	list accounts
POST	/api/users	admin	create one — role is admin, operator or readonly; an operator needs site_ids
DELETE	/api/users/{id}	admin	delete an account

Sites

Method	Path	Role	Purpose
GET	/api/sites	auth	list (scoped to the caller)
POST	/api/sites	manage	create — returns 202 and a task
GET	/api/sites/{id}	auth	one site
DELETE	/api/sites/{id}	manage	delete — returns 202
PUT	/api/sites/{id}/config	manage	update the site configuration
PUT	/api/sites/{id}/php	manage	change PHP version or limits
POST	/api/sites/{id}/certificate	manage	issue a Let’s Encrypt certificate
POST	/api/sites/{id}/purge	manage	purge the page cache
POST	/api/sites/{id}/warm	manage	crawl the sitemap to warm the cache
GET	/api/sites/{id}/cache-stats	auth	object-cache hit rate and memory
POST	/api/sites/{id}/migration	manage	import an existing site from an archive + SQL dump

POST /api/sites/{id}/migration takes {"archive": "...", "sql": "...", "old_domain": "...", "confirm": "<destination domain>"}. archive and sql are paths inside the destination site’s directory — upload them over SFTP first. old_domain drives the search-and-replace through the imported database, and confirm must equal the destination domain or the request is rejected.

Creating a site:

curl -sk -c jar -b jar https://your-panel/api/sites \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"domain":"shop.example.com","type":"woocommerce","profile":"commerce",
       "admin_email":"you@example.com","admin_user":"you",
       "admin_password":"strong-password","object_cache":true}'

Releases, staging and Safe Push

Method	Path	Role	Purpose
GET	/api/sites/{id}/deployments	auth	deployment history with Guard verdicts
POST	/api/sites/{id}/deployments	manage	create a release
POST	/api/deployments/{id}/promote	manage	promote a specific release
POST	/api/sites/{id}/rollback	manage	roll back to the previous release
POST	/api/sites/{id}/staging	manage	clone production to staging
GET	/api/sites/{id}/staging/tables	manage	what a database sync would copy
POST	/api/sites/{id}/staging/database	manage	re-sync the staging database
POST	/api/sites/{id}/safe-push	manage	measure and promote if it holds up

Backups

Method	Path	Role	Purpose
GET	/api/sites/{id}/backups	auth	list snapshots
POST	/api/sites/{id}/backups	manage	take one — kind is full, files or database
POST	/api/backups/{id}/verify	manage	restore it to scratch and check it
POST	/api/backups/{id}/restore	manage	restore, in place or to a target directory
POST	/api/backups/test	admin	check the repository is reachable

Files

Jailed to the site root. Paths are resolved and then opened with openat2(RESOLVE_NO_SYMLINKS), so a symlink cannot redirect the operation outside the site.

Method	Path	Role	Purpose
GET	/api/sites/{id}/files?path=	auth	list a directory
GET	/api/sites/{id}/files/read?path=	auth	read a text file (2 MB cap)
POST	/api/sites/{id}/files/write	manage	write a text file
GET	/api/sites/{id}/files/download?path=	auth	download (16 MB cap; use SFTP above that)
POST	/api/sites/{id}/files/upload	manage	upload (16 MB cap)
POST	/api/sites/{id}/files/manage	manage	delete, rename, mkdir

Database

Method	Path	Role	Purpose
GET	/api/sites/{id}/database	auth	tables, row counts, sizes
POST	/api/sites/{id}/database/query	manage	run SQL
POST	/api/sites/{id}/database/export	manage	dump to the site’s shared/exports/
POST	/api/sites/{id}/database/import	manage	import a .sql from inside the site
POST	/api/sites/{id}/database/adminer	manage	launch a time-limited Adminer session

The console is read-only unless you pass "allow_writes": true, and a read-only query must be a single statement — select 1; drop table x is refused. Queries run as a throwaway account granted on that site’s database only, so cross-database access fails at the server.

WordPress

Method	Path	Role	Purpose
POST	/api/sites/{id}/wp/login	manage	one-click login URL (single-use, 5 minutes)
GET	/api/sites/{id}/wp/plugins	auth	plugins and themes with available updates
POST	/api/sites/{id}/wp/update	manage	update core, plugins, themes or all
POST	/api/sites/{id}/wp/object-cache	manage	enable or disable the object cache

SFTP and SSH keys

Method	Path	Role	Purpose
POST	/api/sites/{id}/sftp	manage	enable SFTP and set the password
GET	/api/sites/{id}/ssh-keys	auth	list authorised keys
POST	/api/sites/{id}/ssh-keys	manage	add a key
DELETE	/api/sites/{id}/ssh-keys/{fingerprint}	manage	remove one

Cron

Method	Path	Role	Purpose
GET	/api/sites/{id}/cron	auth	this site’s jobs
POST	/api/sites/{id}/cron	manage	create one
DELETE	/api/cron/{id}	manage	delete one
POST	/api/cron/{id}/run	manage	run it now

Server

Method	Path	Role	Purpose
GET	/api/system/status	global	CPU, memory, disk headroom, service state
GET	/api/system/metrics	global	24 hours of capacity samples
GET	/api/system/drift	global	managed files that no longer match
POST	/api/system/drift/{id}/resolve	admin	{"action":"restore"} or {"action":"accept"}
GET	/api/services	global	nginx, PHP-FPM, MariaDB, Redis state
POST	/api/services/{name}/restart	admin	restart one
GET	/api/logs	global	tail a server log
GET	/api/firewall	global	ufw rules
POST	/api/firewall/rule	admin	add or remove a rule
GET	/api/audit	global	audit log — who did what, from where
GET	/api/settings	global	panel settings
PUT	/api/settings	admin	update them
POST	/api/panel/certificate	admin	install a certificate for the panel itself
POST	/api/panel/update	admin	self-update, health-checked with automatic rollback

POST /api/panel/update takes {"base_url": "https://…", "version": "v0.1.0"}. base_url is the release root holding the binaries and their .sha256 files; it must be https:// and is required in practice. See Operations.

Tasks and events

Method	Path	Role	Purpose
GET	/api/tasks	auth	recent tasks
GET	/api/tasks/{id}	auth	one task with its log
GET	/api/events	auth	server-sent events stream for live updates

Connector

Method	Path	Role	Purpose
POST	/api/connector/purge	site token	called by the WordPress mu-plugin

Authenticated with a per-site bearer token, not a session. A site’s token can only purge URLs whose host matches that site’s own domains.