CentOS 7

This guide provides comprehensive instructions for installing Pterodactyl v1.X on CentOS 7, including all dependencies and SSL configuration.

• Install Dependencies
  • SELinux Configuration
  • Installing Dependencies
• Server Configuration
  • PHP Configuration
  • SELinux configuration
• Installing the Panel

Install Dependencies

SELinux Configuration

If SELinux is enabled (check with sestatus), install the following packages:

yum install -y policycoreutils policycoreutils-python selinux-policy selinux-policy-targeted libselinux-utils setroubleshoot-server setools setools-console mcstrans

Installing Dependencies

Run the following commands to install all necessary dependencies:

# Add MariaDB repository
sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/mariadb.repo <<EOF
[mariadb]
name = MariaDB
baseurl = http://yum.mariadb.org/10.5/centos7-amd64
gpgkey = https://yum.mariadb.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-MariaDB
gpgcheck = 1
EOF

# Install EPEL and Remi repositories
sudo yum install -y https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
sudo yum install -y https://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-7.rpm

# Enable PHP 8.3 from Remi
sudo yum install -y yum-utils
sudo yum-config-manager --disable 'remi-php*'
sudo yum-config-manager --enable remi-php83

sudo yum update -y

# Install dependencies
sudo yum install -y MariaDB-common MariaDB-server php php-{common,fpm,cli,json,mysqlnd,mcrypt,gd,mbstring,pdo,zip,bcmath,dom,opcache} nginx zip unzip

# Install Redis
sudo yum install -y --enablerepo=remi redis

# Start and enable services
sudo systemctl enable --now mariadb nginx redis

# Configure firewall
sudo firewall-cmd --add-service=http --permanent
sudo firewall-cmd --add-service=https --permanent 
sudo firewall-cmd --reload

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

Server Configuration

PHP Configuration

Create a new PHP-FPM configuration file in /etc/php-fpm.d/www-pterodactyl.conf:

[pterodactyl]

user = nginx
group = nginx

listen = /var/run/php-fpm/pterodactyl.sock
listen.owner = nginx
listen.group = nginx
listen.mode = 0750

pm = ondemand
pm.max_children = 9
pm.process_idle_timeout = 10s
pm.max_requests = 200

Start and enable PHP-FPM:

sudo systemctl enable --now php-fpm

SELinux configuration

The following command will allow nginx to work with redis.

setsebool -P httpd_can_network_connect 1
setsebool -P httpd_execmem 1
setsebool -P httpd_unified 1

Installing the Panel

Excellent, we now have all of the required dependencies installed and configured. From here, follow the official Panel installation documentation.

TIP

You will need to change the fastcgi_pass path in the Nginx configuration to /var/run/php-fpm/pterodactyl.sock