Uninstalling the panel

Remove FeatherPanel with the installer. What it deletes, what stays on the server, and how to clean up the web server, certificates and Wings.

Docker installs

Run the installer, pick [1] Panel, then Uninstall Panel, and confirm with y. The installer:

1. Stops and disables cloudflared. For a full automatic tunnel it also deletes the DNS record and the tunnel in your Cloudflare account.
2. Removes leftover cloudflared containers from older installs.
3. Runs docker compose down -v, which removes the containers and all their volumes.
4. Deletes /var/www/featherpanel/.env, /usr/local/bin/featherpanel and /var/www/featherpanel.

It leaves these in place:

• Docker itself and the downloaded images (docker image prune -a removes unused images).
• The nginx or Apache site and the Let’s Encrypt certificate.
• The featherpanel-docker-updater service and /etc/featherpanel/docker-updater-*.sh.
• FeatherWings, FeatherQuilld and the CLI. Each has its own uninstall entry in the installer.

To clean up the rest by hand:

sudo rm -f /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/featherpanel /etc/nginx/sites-available/featherpanel
sudo systemctl reload nginx
sudo certbot delete --cert-name panel.example.com
sudo systemctl disable --now featherpanel-docker-updater
sudo rm -f /etc/systemd/system/featherpanel-docker-updater.service /etc/featherpanel/docker-updater-*.sh
sudo systemctl daemon-reload

Source installs

The installer asks whether to delete the files in /var/www/featherpanel as well. It stops and removes the featherpanel-next, featherpanel-async-runner and backend services, the nginx site, /etc/cron.d/featherpanel and the PHP configuration it added. The MariaDB and Redis servers and the database stay.

Reinstalling over an existing install

Choosing Install on a server that already has the panel asks you to type yes and then runs docker compose down -v, which deletes all data, before installing again. Back up first, or use Update instead.