* feat(xray): reference-cleanup helpers for entity deletion
When an outbound or balancer is deleted on the Xray page, routing rules and
balancers that reference it must be repaired in the same edit, or the saved
config breaks the core: a dangling balancerTag stops Router.Init (whole core
down), a dangling outboundTag black-holes matched traffic at the dispatcher.
Add pure plan*/apply* helpers that compute and apply the cleanup. A rule is
kept when a destination (outboundTag or balancerTag) remains and dropped when
none does. Deleting an outbound cascades: emptying a balancer selector removes
that balancer too, then repairs its rules in one pass against the full removed
set; fallbackTag and dialerProxy references are cleared and observatories
re-synced.
* fix(balancers): clean routing rules referencing a deleted balancer
Deleting a balancer left routing rules pointing at its balancerTag. xray-core's
Router.Init then fails ("balancer <tag> not found"), the core won't restart and
every inbound drops — the saved config passes CheckXrayConfig (JSON shape only),
so it breaks only on the next restart.
The delete confirm now lists the affected rules (modified vs removed) next to
the existing observatory warning and applies planBalancerDeletion's cleanup: a
rule keeps its outboundTag when present, otherwise the whole rule is dropped.
Adds the shared DeletionImpactList and refCleanup strings across all 13 locales.
* fix(outbounds): clean rules, balancer selectors and dialerProxy on outbound delete
Deleting an outbound left routing rules pointing at its outboundTag (matched
traffic black-holed at the dispatcher), plus stale references in balancer
selectors / fallbackTag and other outbounds' dialerProxy.
The delete confirm now shows planOutboundDeletion's impact and applies the
cascade: rules keep a remaining balancerTag (else are dropped), the tag is
pulled from balancer selectors and fallbacks, dialerProxy references are
cleared, and a balancer whose selector is emptied is removed along with its
own now-targetless rules.
* refactor(xray): share one rule classifier across preview and apply
Code review flagged that the keep/drop predicate was transcribed twice — in
ruleImpacts (the delete-modal preview) and in applyCleanup (the mutation) — kept
in sync only by a parity test. Extract a single classifyRule() that both call,
so the preview can never disagree with what apply actually does.
Also harden balancersEmptiedBy to skip tagless balancers: an empty/missing tag
would otherwise enter the removed set as "" and silently drop every other
tagless balancer (only reachable via a hand-edited config, but a silent data
loss). And remove observersRemovedByDeletingBalancer, orphaned once BalancersTab
switched to planBalancerDeletion.
* fix(xray): null-guard reference cleanup against unvalidated configs
The PR review noted that classifyRule and applyCleanup dereferenced rule /
balancer entries directly, while the sibling propagateOutboundTagRename uses
optional chaining — because fetchXrayConfig falls back to the unvalidated parsed
object when Zod validation fails, a stray null in rules / balancers can survive
into the editor and would throw during the delete preview/apply.
Match that defensive style: classifyRule and balancersEmptiedBy read through
optional chaining, the balancer loop skips nullish entries, and the dialerProxy
walk guards the outbound. A delete on a hand-edited config with null entries now
degrades gracefully instead of throwing.
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3X-UI is an advanced, open-source web control panel for managing Xray-core servers. It provides a clean, multi-language interface for deploying, configuring, and monitoring a wide range of proxy and VPN protocols — from a single VPS to multi-node deployments.
Built as an enhanced fork of the original X-UI project, 3X-UI adds broader protocol support, improved stability, per-client traffic accounting, and many quality-of-life features.
Important
This project is intended for personal use only. Please do not use it for illegal purposes or in a production environment.
Features
- Multi-protocol inbounds — VLESS, VMess, Trojan, Shadowsocks, WireGuard, Hysteria2, HTTP, SOCKS (Mixed), Dokodemo-door / Tunnel, and TUN.
- Modern transports & security — TCP (Raw), mKCP, WebSocket, gRPC, HTTPUpgrade, and XHTTP, secured with TLS, XTLS, and REALITY.
- Fallbacks — serve multiple protocols on a single port (e.g. VLESS and Trojan on 443) using Xray's fallback support.
- Per-client management — traffic quotas, expiry dates, IP limits, live online status, and one-click share links, QR codes, and subscriptions.
- Traffic statistics — per inbound, per client, and per outbound, with reset controls.
- Multi-node support — manage and scale across multiple servers from a single panel.
- Outbound & routing — WARP, NordVPN, custom routing rules, load balancers, and outbound proxy chaining.
- Built-in subscription server with multiple output formats and custom page templates.
- Telegram bot for remote monitoring and management.
- RESTful API with in-panel Swagger documentation.
- Flexible storage — SQLite (default) or PostgreSQL.
- 13 UI languages with dark and light themes.
- Fail2ban integration for enforcing per-client IP limits.
Screenshots
Quick Start
bash <(curl -Ls https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mhsanaei/3x-ui/master/install.sh)
To install a specific version, append its tag (e.g. v3.4.0):
bash <(curl -Ls https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mhsanaei/3x-ui/master/install.sh) v3.4.0
To install the rolling dev build (latest per-commit pre-release from main, not a stable release), pass dev-latest:
bash <(curl -Ls https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mhsanaei/3x-ui/master/install.sh) dev-latest
During installation a random username, password, and access path are generated. After installation, run x-ui to open the management menu, where you can start/stop the service, view or reset your login credentials, manage SSL certificates, and more.
For full documentation, please visit the project Wiki.
Unattended install
The installer also runs non-interactively for cloud-init.
Set XUI_NONINTERACTIVE=1 (or pipe with no TTY) and it installs end-to-end with
zero prompts, generating random credentials and writing them to
/etc/x-ui/install-result.env. See deploy/ for:
- Cloud-init user-data — unattended install on any cloud (Hetzner/AWS/DO/Vultr/GCP/Azure/Oracle)
- Hetzner Cloud notes — cloud-init deployment on Hetzner
Supported Platforms
Operating systems: Ubuntu, Debian, Armbian, Fedora, CentOS, RHEL, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, Oracle Linux, Amazon Linux, Virtuozzo, Arch, Manjaro, Parch, openSUSE (Tumbleweed / Leap), Alpine, and Windows.
Architectures: amd64 · 386 · arm64 (aarch64) · armv7 · armv6 · armv5 · s390x.
Database Options
3X-UI supports two backends, chosen during the install:
- SQLite (default) — a single file at
/etc/x-ui/x-ui.db. Zero setup, ideal for small and medium deployments. - PostgreSQL — recommended for high client counts or multi-node setups. The installer can install PostgreSQL locally for you, or accept a DSN to an existing server.
At runtime the backend is selected via environment variables (the installer writes these to /etc/default/x-ui for you):
XUI_DB_TYPE=postgres
XUI_DB_DSN=postgres://xui:password@127.0.0.1:5432/xui?sslmode=disable
Migrating an existing SQLite install to PostgreSQL
x-ui migrate-db --dsn "postgres://xui:password@127.0.0.1:5432/xui?sslmode=disable"
# then set XUI_DB_TYPE and XUI_DB_DSN in /etc/default/x-ui and restart:
systemctl restart x-ui
The source SQLite file is left untouched; remove it manually once you have verified the new backend.
Docker
The default docker compose up -d keeps using SQLite. To run with the bundled PostgreSQL service, uncomment the two XUI_DB_* env lines in docker-compose.yml and start with the profile:
docker compose --profile postgres up -d
The image bundles Fail2ban (enabled by default) to enforce per-client IP limits. Fail2ban bans offenders with iptables, which requires the NET_ADMIN capability. docker-compose.yml already grants it via cap_add; if you start the container with docker run instead, add the capabilities yourself, otherwise bans are logged but never applied:
docker run -d --cap-add=NET_ADMIN --cap-add=NET_RAW ... ghcr.io/mhsanaei/3x-ui
Environment Variables
| Variable | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
XUI_DB_TYPE |
Database backend: sqlite or postgres |
sqlite |
XUI_DB_DSN |
PostgreSQL connection string (when XUI_DB_TYPE=postgres) |
— |
XUI_DB_FOLDER |
Directory for the SQLite database file | /etc/x-ui |
XUI_DB_MAX_OPEN_CONNS |
Maximum open connections (PostgreSQL pool) | — |
XUI_DB_MAX_IDLE_CONNS |
Maximum idle connections (PostgreSQL pool) | — |
XUI_INIT_WEB_BASE_PATH |
The initial URI path for the web panel | / |
XUI_ENABLE_FAIL2BAN |
Enable Fail2ban-based IP-limit enforcement | true |
XUI_LOG_LEVEL |
Log verbosity (debug, info, warning, error) |
info |
XUI_DEBUG |
Enable debug mode | false |
XUI_TUNNEL_HEALTH_MONITOR |
Enable the tunnel health monitor (probes a URL and restarts xray after repeated failures; a restart drops all clients) | false |
XUI_TUNNEL_HEALTH_PROXY |
Proxy the probe is sent through; point it at a local xray inbound so the probe tests the tunnel (e.g. socks5://127.0.0.1:1080). Empty means the probe only checks host connectivity |
— |
XUI_TUNNEL_HEALTH_URL |
URL probed for tunnel health | https://www.cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/trace |
XUI_TUNNEL_HEALTH_INTERVAL |
Interval between probes | 30s |
XUI_TUNNEL_HEALTH_TIMEOUT |
Per-probe timeout | 10s |
XUI_TUNNEL_HEALTH_FAILURES |
Consecutive failures before a restart is triggered | 3 |
XUI_TUNNEL_HEALTH_COOLDOWN |
Minimum delay between consecutive restarts | 5m |
Supported Languages
The panel UI is available in 13 languages:
English · فارسی · العربية · 中文(简体) · 中文(繁體) · Español · Русский · Українська · Türkçe · Tiếng Việt · 日本語 · Bahasa Indonesia · Português (Brasil)
Contributing
Contributions are welcome. Please read the Contributing Guide before opening an issue or pull request.
A Special Thanks to
Acknowledgment
- Iran v2ray rules (License: GPL-3.0): Enhanced v2ray/xray and v2ray/xray-clients routing rules with built-in Iranian domains and a focus on security and adblocking.
- Russia v2ray rules (License: GPL-3.0): This repository contains automatically updated V2Ray routing rules based on data on blocked domains and addresses in Russia.
Community Tools
Tools and integrations built by the community around 3x-ui.
- terraform-provider-3x-ui (License: MIT): Manage inbounds, clients, panel settings, and Xray configuration as code with Terraform / OpenTofu.
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