Pterodactyl

Installing Composer

Add "add-apt-repository" command

apt -y install software-properties-common curl apt-transport-https ca-certificates gnupg

Add additional repositories for PHP (Ubuntu 20.04 and Ubuntu 22.04)

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

MariaDB repo setup script (Ubuntu 20.04)

curl -LsS https://r.mariadb.com/downloads/mariadb_repo_setup | sudo bash

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

Installing Composer

curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | sudo php -- --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer

Download Files :

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 :

# If using MariaDB (v11.0.0+) (This is the default when installing Pterodactyl by following the documentation.)
mariadb -u root -p

# If using MySQL
mysql -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

# Only run the command below if you are installing this Panel for
# the first time and do not have any Pterodactyl Panel data in the database.
php artisan key:generate --force

Environment Configuration :

php artisan p:environment:setup
php artisan p:environment:database

# To use PHP's internal mail sending (not recommended), select "mail". To use a
# custom SMTP server, select "smtp".
php artisan p:environment:mail

Database Setup :

php artisan migrate --seed --force

Add The First User :

php artisan p:user:make

Set Permissions :

# If using NGINX, Apache or Caddy (not on RHEL / Rocky Linux / AlmaLinux)
chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/pterodactyl/*

# If using NGINX on RHEL / Rocky Linux / AlmaLinux
chown -R nginx:nginx /var/www/pterodactyl/*

# If using Apache on RHEL / Rocky Linux / AlmaLinux
chown -R apache:apache /var/www/pterodactyl/*

Crontab Configuration :

sudo crontab -e

* * * * * php /var/www/pterodactyl/artisan schedule:run >> /dev/null 2>&1

Create Queue Worker :

nano /etc/systemd/system/pteroq.service

# 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

sudo systemctl enable --now redis-server
sudo systemctl enable --now pteroq.service