Installing PufferPanel#

System Requirements#

  • 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

Installing#

For easiest installation, if you have one of the listed supported distributions, you can simply install our package and get going!

curl -s https://packagecloud.io/install/repositories/pufferpanel/pufferpanel/script.deb.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt-get install pufferpanel
sudo systemctl enable pufferpanel

For Docker usage, please refer to this page.

Unsupported OS/Version#

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.

curl -s https://packagecloud.io/install/repositories/pufferpanel/pufferpanel/script.deb.sh | sudo os=ubuntu dist=jammy bash

Installs using RPM files are a manual process. Refer to the latest release to get the RPM file.

It is also possible to install the AUR package pufferpanel-bin.

Ports#

The following ports are used by PufferPanel. Please allow traffic to/from these ports to fully use your installation.

  • 8080: Web access

  • 5657: SFTP

Adding an admin#

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

Starting the panel#

sudo systemctl enable --now pufferpanel

Managing the service#

PufferPanel uses Systemd to manage the service, consult the man page man systemctl or a guide for instructions on how to use it.

Done!#

And that’s it! Your panel is now available on port 8080 of your server.

Additional resources: