- A VPS or Dedicated server (32-bit IS NOT supported)
- SSH access and administrative (root or sudo) privileges on the server
- One of the following operating systems:
OS/Version | AMD64 | ARM64 | AMD32 |
---|---|---|---|
Ubuntu Focal (20.04) | Yes | Yes | No |
Ubuntu Jammy (22.04) | Yes | Yes | No |
Debian Buster (10) | Yes | Yes | No |
Debian Bullseye (11) | Yes | Yes | No |
Raspbian Buster (10) | No | Yes | Yes |
Raspbian Bullseye (11) | No | Yes | Yes |
- If your operating system is not listed above take a look at
this<unsupportedos>
The following ports are used by PufferPanel. Please allow traffic to/from these ports to fully use your installation.
- 8080: Web access
- 5657: SFTP
For easiest installation, if you have one of the listed supported distributions, you can simply install our package and get going!
Ubuntu/Debian
curl -s https://packagecloud.io/install/repositories/pufferpanel/pufferpanel/script.deb.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt-get install pufferpanel
Docker
For Docker usage, please refer to this page <installing-docker>
.
To create your first user, run the following command. Be sure to enter "Y" when it asks if this is an admin so you can fully use your panel.
sudo pufferpanel user add
After doing all of the above you are ready to start your panel.
sudo systemctl enable --now pufferpanel
PufferPanel uses Systemd to manage the service, consult the man page man systemctl or a guide for instructions on how to use it.
And that's it! Your panel is now available on port 8080 of your server.
Additional resources:
Enabling SSL with Nginx <guides/ssl-setup-nginx>
Running servers without Docker <environments/standard>
Running servers with Docker <environments/docker>
Warning
This is not recommended or supported. If it breaks, you're on your own!
It is possible to install PufferPanel on other Debian, Red Hat based OS/Versions, and Arch Linux/Arch Linux ARM that are not listed in the table above. For a OS/Version that is not included in the table above, you will need to add os={os} dist={version}
with a os/version that is included in the repository, to the curl command between sudo and bash. i.e.
DEB
curl -s https://packagecloud.io/install/repositories/pufferpanel/pufferpanel/script.deb.sh | sudo os=ubuntu dist=jammy bash
RPM
Installs using RPM files are a manual process. Refer to the latest release to get the RPM file.
Arch Linux/Arch Linux ARM
It is also possible to install the AUR package pufferpanel-bin.