Archlinux install tutorial (for plebs)

[Darukutsu]

Install following from aur

• pterodactyl-panel
• pterodactyl-wings
• php-fmp
• php83-dblib (your php version)
• redis (optional if you planning on using it)

One of these databases:

• mariadb (optional)
• mysql (optional)

now depending on where you want to have your server, arch standard directory is /srv but you can freely create symlink in /var/www/pterodactyl this way there won't be that much difference when configuring webserver according to docs.

ln -s /usr/share/webapps/pterodactyl /var/www/pterodactyl

Before setting up database check out on ArchWiki recommendations, if using modern filesystem like ZFS/BTRFS.

With these packages, you can basically skip to Instalation, with couple of notes...

Before going into Environment Configuration

This might conflict/not desirable when running other php webservers since we touching global configuration, create a backup somewhere...

#/etc/php/php.ini
extension=gd
extension=mysqli
extension=pdo_mysql
extension=sodium

if your server is behind router proxy

#/etc/php/php-fpm.d/www.conf
group = caddy
listen.group = caddy

systemctl enable --now php-fpm.service

Now you can follow Environment Configuration

Set Permissions

chown -R http:http /var/www/pterodactyl/*

Crontab Configuration

instead of following docs you can run

systemctl enable --now pterodactyl-schedule.service

Queue Worker

If not planning on using redis(lets say we chose filesystem instead) comment out in pterodactyl-queue.service

[Unit]
#After=redis.service

systemctl enable --now redis.service # optional
systemctl enable --now pterodactyl-queue.service

Now as you could probably tell I'm using server behind router with caddy reverse proxy. Since I access my servers via Wireguard tunnel(for now) I chose "caddy without SSL". Caddy is really simple to setup thus my goto on this server too. This is practicaly same as in docs with few changes:

{
    servers :80 {
        timeouts {
            read_body 120s
        }
    }
}

# Replace the example <domain> with your domain name or IP address
# <domain>:80 {
# since reverse proxy runs on router...

# Now you can see I omit domain name because what if my topology, domainname changes...
# I tend to manage everything directly on my router with opnsense.
# You probably didn't need to change caddy user everywhere, well this is my config...
#
# panel will thus run on port 25700
:25700 {
    # change this if you chose other directory
    root * /var/www/pterodactyl/public

    file_server

    php_fastcgi unix//run/php-fpm/php-fpm.sock {
        # change this if you chose other directory
        root /var/www/pterodactyl/public
        index index.php

        env PHP_VALUE "upload_max_filesize = 100M
        post_max_size = 100M"
        env HTTP_PROXY ""
        # env HTTPS "on" # IMPORTANT: this is commented out, to disable HTTPS

        read_timeout 300s
        dial_timeout 300s
        write_timeout 300s
    }

    header Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=16768000; preload;"
    header X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff"
    header X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block;"
    header X-Robots-Tag "none"
    header Content-Security-Policy "frame-ancestors 'self'"
    header X-Frame-Options "DENY"
    header Referrer-Policy "same-origin"

    request_body {
        max_size 100m
    }

    respond /.ht* 403

    log {
        output file /var/log/caddy/pterodactyl.log {
            roll_size 100MiB
            roll_keep_for 7d
        }
        level INFO
    }
}

systemctl restart caddy

Now I think you should've access to panel. If not check you firewall rules.

When setting up wings skip to Configure. In UI create Locations, Nodes. Then paste configuration to /etc/pterodactyl/config.yml.

After running wings --debug you might encounter Issues with docker.

After fixed now you can run:

systemctl enable --now pterodactyl-wings.service

Hope this will be helpful, had trouble setting this. I don't understand why there isn't ootb setup.

Honorable Mentions

pterodactyl-installer - no idea if it works on arch

[Darukutsu]

sorry didn't know where should I open this feel free to close as solved