Panel Installation
Install required Dependencies
# Add "add-apt-repository" command
apt -y install software-properties-common curl apt-transport-https ca-certificates gnupg
# Add PHP repository
LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 add-apt-repository -y ppa:ondrej/php
# Add Redis official APT repository
curl -fsSL https://packages.redis.io/gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/redis-archive-keyring.gpg
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/redis-archive-keyring.gpg] https://packages.redis.io/deb $(lsb_release -cs) main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/redis.list
# Update repositories list
apt update
# Install Dependencies
apt -y install php8.3 php8.3-{common,cli,gd,mysql,mbstring,bcmath,xml,fpm,curl,zip} mariadb-server nginx tar unzip git redis-server
Install Composer
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | sudo php -- --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer
Download the Panel
mkdir -p /var/www/pterodactyl
cd /var/www/pterodactyl
curl -Lo panel.tar.gz https://github.com/pterodactyl/panel/releases/latest/download/panel.tar.gz
tar -xzvf panel.tar.gz
chmod -R 755 storage/* bootstrap/cache/
Installation
mariadb -u root -p
# Remember to change 'yourPassword' below to be a unique password
CREATE USER 'pterodactyl'@'127.0.0.1' IDENTIFIED BY 'yourPassword';
CREATE DATABASE panel;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON panel.* TO 'pterodactyl'@'127.0.0.1' WITH GRANT OPTION;
exit
cp .env.example .env
COMPOSER_ALLOW_SUPERUSER=1 composer install --no-dev --optimize-autoloader
php artisan key:generate --force
Environment Configuration
php artisan p:environment:setup
php artisan p:environment:database
#Only run this if you want, that the panel send Mails to the users
php artisan p:environment:mail
The command below may take some time to run, depending on your machine.
php artisan migrate --seed --force
Add The First User
php artisan p:user:make
Set Permissions
chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/pterodactyl/*
Crontab Configuration
sudo crontab -e
#add the line to the end of the file
* * * * * php /var/www/pterodactyl/artisan schedule:run >> /dev/null 2>&1
Create Queue Worker
nano /etc/systemd/system/pteroq.service
#Paste this code in the File
# Pterodactyl Queue Worker File
# ----------------------------------
[Unit]
Description=Pterodactyl Queue Worker
After=redis-server.service
[Service]
# On some systems the user and group might be different.
# Some systems use `apache` or `nginx` as the user and group.
User=www-data
Group=www-data
Restart=always
ExecStart=/usr/bin/php /var/www/pterodactyl/artisan queue:work --queue=high,standard,low --sleep=3 --tries=3
StartLimitInterval=180
StartLimitBurst=30
RestartSec=5s
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Start Redis and the Panel
sudo systemctl enable --now redis-server
sudo systemctl enable --now pteroq.service
Create the Webserver with Nginx
rm /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default
nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/pterodactyl.conf
Paste the content below in the File, replacing <YOUR-DOMAIN> with your domain name
server {
# Replace the example <YOUR-DOMAIN> with your domain name or IP address
listen 80;
server_name <YOUR-DOMAIN>;
return 301 https://$server_name$request_uri;
}
server {
# Replace the example <YOUR-DOMAIN> with your domain name or IP address
listen 443 ssl http2;
server_name <YOUR-DOMAIN>;
root /var/www/pterodactyl/public;
index index.php;
access_log /var/log/nginx/pterodactyl.app-access.log;
error_log /var/log/nginx/pterodactyl.app-error.log error;
# allow larger file uploads and longer script runtimes
client_max_body_size 100m;
client_body_timeout 120s;
sendfile off;
# SSL Configuration - Replace the example <YOUR-DOMAIN> with your domain
ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/<YOUR-DOMAIN>/fullchain.pem;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/<YOUR-DOMAIN>/privkey.pem;
ssl_session_cache shared:SSL:10m;
ssl_protocols TLSv1.2 TLSv1.3;
ssl_ciphers "ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305:ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305:DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384";
ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
# See https://hstspreload.org/ before uncommenting the line below.
# add_header Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=15768000; preload;";
add_header X-Content-Type-Options nosniff;
add_header X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block";
add_header X-Robots-Tag none;
add_header Content-Security-Policy "frame-ancestors 'self'";
add_header X-Frame-Options DENY;
add_header Referrer-Policy same-origin;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php8.3-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param PHP_VALUE "upload_max_filesize = 100M \n post_max_size=100M";
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param HTTP_PROXY "";
fastcgi_intercept_errors off;
fastcgi_buffer_size 16k;
fastcgi_buffers 4 16k;
fastcgi_connect_timeout 300;
fastcgi_send_timeout 300;
fastcgi_read_timeout 300;
include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
}
location ~ /\.ht {
deny all;
}
}
Create an SSL Certificate with Certbot
sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y certbot
sudo apt install -y python3-certbot-nginx
certbot certonly --nginx -d <YOUR-DOMAIN>
Enable and start Nginx
sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/pterodactyl.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/pterodactyl.conf
sudo systemctl restart nginx
Good Job! The panel is installed
Wings Installation
Install Docker
curl -sSL https://get.docker.com/ | CHANNEL=stable bash
sudo systemctl enable --now docker
Download the Wings
sudo mkdir -p /etc/pterodactyl
curl -L -o /usr/local/bin/wings "https://github.com/pterodactyl/wings/releases/latest/download/wings_linux_$([[ "$(uname -m)" == "x86_64" ]] && echo "amd64" || echo "arm64")"
sudo chmod u+x /usr/local/bin/wings
Now Login in The Panel and Create a new node. Then go to the Configuration tab and Copy the content
nano /etc/pterodactyl/config.yml
#Paste the Content in this File
Start the Wings
nano /etc/systemd/system/wings.service
#Paste this in the File
[Unit]
Description=Pterodactyl Wings Daemon
After=docker.service
Requires=docker.service
PartOf=docker.service
[Service]
User=root
WorkingDirectory=/etc/pterodactyl
LimitNOFILE=4096
PIDFile=/var/run/wings/daemon.pid
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/wings
Restart=on-failure
StartLimitInterval=180
StartLimitBurst=30
RestartSec=5s
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
sudo systemctl enable --now wings
DONE
Now the Panel and Wings are Installed