Pterodactyl installation

Next, we need to create a user with administrator privileges. Set the user details using this command:

php artisan p:user:make

9. Giving privileges 

The final step of the installation is to set the correct permissions for the panel files so that the web server can access them properly.

If you are using Apache or Nginx (won't work on CentOS):
chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/pterodactyl/*

If you are using Nginx on CentOS:
chown -R nginx:nginx /var/www/pterodactyl/*

If you are using Apache on CentOS:
chown -R apache:apache /var/www/pterodactyl/*

10. Crontab settings

The first thing we need to do is create a new cron job that runs every minute to handle certain Pterodactyl tasks, such as session cleaning and dispatching scheduled tasks.

Open the cron editor using the command: "sudo crontab -e" and add the following line at the end:

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

11. Creating the Queue Worker file

Create a file named "pteroq.service" in the directory "/etc/systemd/system" with the following content:

cd /etc/systemd/system
sudo nano 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

If you are using Redis, run these commands to ensure that Redis starts automatically when the server boots and to enable Pterodactyl with the command below:

sudo systemctl enable --now redis-server

sudo systemctl enable --now pteroq.service

12. Web server configuration

First delete the default Nginx configuration

rm /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default

Here is the content for the "pterodactyl.conf" file. Please replace "<domain>" with your actual domain name or IP address. Save the file in the directory "/etc/nginx/sites-available/":

server {
    # Replace <domain> with your actual domain or IP address
    listen 80;
    server_name <domain>;

    root /var/www/pterodactyl/public;
    index index.html index.htm index.php;
    charset utf-8;

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
    }

    location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
    location = /robots.txt  { access_log off; log_not_found off; }

    access_log off;
    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;

    location ~ \.php$ {
        fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php8.1-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;
    }

    location ~ /\.ht {
        deny all;
    }
}

Enable the configuration using this command:

sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/pterodactyl.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/pterodactyl.conf

After that restart Nginx:

sudo systemctl restart nginx

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