Notes from building KNJ Panel, in the order it actually happened.
blog /blɒɡ/ noun — 1. A web log. 2. Here: a build log. What we built, what broke, and what we learned.
Followed Phase 108’s webmail fix with the bulk of the remaining work: migrating every mail-related service still bypassing the Stage 2 dispatcher. Four releases (v0.16.32 through v0.16.36), each…
Read more →Started the next slice of Mail Only: making the remaining mail-related account features satellite-aware, starting with KNJ Webmail itself. Shipped that fix, then found something bigger while verifying…
Read more →Two unrelated bugs, found during live testing and fixed together: one in the mail stack, one in the admin “log in as user” feature. Webmail login broke, and…
Read more →The gap behind “existing mailboxes aren’t copied over yet” Stage 2’s Mail Settings selector shipped with an honest caveat in its UI: switching to a linked Mail Only…
Read more →The piece DNS-only never needed DNS-only’s design rests on zone content always being authored on Main and pushed. Mail does not get that luxury. Creating a mailbox or…
Read more →Starting the second satellite role DNS-only’s two-key linking system (Phase 102) and feature-parity pass (Phase 103) proved the pattern: a restricted-role satellite install links to a Main server,…
Read more →Starting from a real gap The two-key linking system (Phase 102) fixed how a DNS-only box connects to a Main server, but left an obvious hole: once linked,…
Read more →A document root bug sweep first Before this, a quieter fix: several features that write to an account’s document root (the cPanel importer, custom Error Pages, Directory Privacy,…
Read more →The goal was to rebuild Deploy from Git so it works with private repositories and per-account deploy keys, the way mature panels handle it, then ship it, cut…
Read more →The install script was run on a genuinely fresh, disposable VM for the first time since the setup wizard shipped, which is the real test that wizard was…
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