PufferPanel is an open-source game server management panel that allows you to manage multiple game servers on a single machine. It provides a simple and user-friendly interface for managing game servers and makes it easy to deploy and manage different game server configurations.
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install PufferPanel on MXLinux Latest.
Before you begin, you'll need to make sure you have the following:
Before you start installing PufferPanel, you need to install all of the dependencies required to run PufferPanel.
To do so, open a terminal window and run the following command:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install git curl nginx php php-curl php-gd php-mbstring php-zip php-xml unzip
This command will update your system and install all the dependencies required by PufferPanel.
Composer is a dependency manager tool for PHP. You need to install Composer to install PufferPanel.
To install Composer, open a terminal window and run the following command:
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | sudo php -- --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer
To download PufferPanel, open a terminal window and run the following command:
sudo mkdir -p /srv/pufferpanel
sudo chown $USER:$USER /srv/pufferpanel
cd /srv/pufferpanel
wget https://git.io/fAxAE -O pufferpanel.tar.gz
tar -xzvf pufferpanel.tar.gz
rm pufferpanel.tar.gz
This command will create a new directory for PufferPanel, download the PufferPanel archive, extract it, and remove the archive.
To install PufferPanel, navigate to the PufferPanel directory and run the following command:
composer install --no-dev --optimize-autoloader
This command will install all the required dependencies for PufferPanel.
Next, you need to configure Nginx to serve PufferPanel. To do so, create a new Nginx virtual host file with the following command:
sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/pufferpanel.conf
Then, paste the following configuration into the file:
server {
listen 80;
server_name your_domain_name;
root /srv/pufferpanel/public;
index index.html index.htm index.php;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$is_args$args;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.3-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root/$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_path_info;
}
}
Replace your_domain_name with your domain name, and save and close the file.
Next, enable the Nginx virtual host by creating a symbolic link with the following command:
sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/pufferpanel.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
Test the Nginx configuration and restart the Nginx service with the following commands:
sudo nginx -t
sudo service nginx restart
To start PufferPanel, navigate to the PufferPanel directory and run the following command:
sudo php artisan pufferpanel:env
sudo php artisan pufferpanel:install
sudo php artisan pufferpanel:daemon:setup
sudo systemctl start pufferpanel
sudo systemctl enable pufferpanel
This command will start PufferPanel, and it will be automatically started on boot.
In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install PufferPanel on MXLinux Latest. You can now log in to your PufferPanel web interface by going to http://your_domain_name.
If you encounter any issues during the installation process or have any questions, don't hesitate to ask for help.
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