pfi-pteradactyl

Pterodactyl game-server panel at the Anaheim colo.

Network

LAN IP: 10.250.50.55
Web UI: http://10.250.50.55/ (listed on homepage under Games)
SSH: lkraven@pfi-pteradactyl

State and gotchas (2026-10-05)

The panel is nginx + php8.3-fpm, not Apache: /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/pterodactyl.conf, root /var/www/pterodactyl/public, plain HTTP on :80, with MariaDB, redis, pteroq and wings (:8080). Wings reaches the panel at http://10.250.50.55 (/etc/pterodactyl/config.yml remote:).
apache2 is MASKED (2026-10-05). It is only installed because libapache2-mod-php8.3 pulls it in. It fought nginx for :80 and showed as a failed unit after every boot, which is what made the host look broken during park 100. The panel itself was up the whole time.
APP_URL in /var/www/pterodactyl/.env is http://ptero.phasefinal.com, a name with no DNS record (Cloudflare or internal). Access is LAN-only by IP, which is fine. Links the panel generates (emails, for example) carry the dead name.
Patched 2026-10-05 (163 packages, MariaDB 11.7 → 11.8.9). Pre-patch DB dump: /root/panel-db-pre-patch-20261005.sql.gz. Kernel 6.1.0-53 is active after the 10-05 ~1100 reboot. Docker (Debian docker.io 20.10.24 +b6, containerd deb12u3) was upgraded 10-05 1418 on Prime's go. ⚠ Debian's docker.io postinst does NOT restart dockerd: the old binary keeps running (/proc/<pid>/exe shows (deleted)) until systemctl restart docker. That restart stops the game server; systemctl restart wings brings it back (wings restores the servers that were running, as it does at boot).

Infrastructure

Hypervisor: pfi-pve (VMID 107)
Type: Linux VM
Site: Anaheim (PFI colo)

Role

Pterodactyl Panel — web UI and daemons for running game servers.

Backup coverage

VM-image: ✅ vzdump on pfi-pve (daily)
File-level restic: ❌ not yet configured

Game-server state (save files, world data, config) lives inside this VM. Volume-level restic covering /var/lib/pterodactyl or equivalent would be a useful layer on top of vzdump — worth a dedicated configs/restic/pfi-pteradactyl/ profile if game state turnover is high.

Refresh state

scripts/refresh-server-info.sh pfi-pteradactyl

Discovered via

FortiGate DHCP (MAC ca:44:37:8a:bf:e0) and pre-existing homepage entry under Games.

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