Install & Configure Open Game Panel in Debian or Ubuntu

Introduction

Open Game Panel (OGP) is a free, popular, easy to use open source gameserver management panel for both linux as well as windows based servers. OGP consists of 2 parts:

• Panel: Web Panel is the interface by which we will be able to manage various agents and gameservers. A single panel can have multiple agents.
• Agent: Agent is where gameservers will run, which are then remotely managed by panel.

A single server can host both Panel and Agent, but it is recommended to not run Agent on the server where Panel is installed

In this tutorial we will be installing the Web Panel of OGP.

Prerequisites

You will need a server with either Debian (9 or 10) or Ubuntu (18.04 or 16.04).

Step 1 - Install & Setup LAMP

In this step we will be installing PHP, Apache2, MySQL, Git and extras, which are required to run the panel.

Note: If you are using Debian 10 or lower make sure you have sudo installed. If not then go ahead and install sudo using apt-get install sudo using your root account.

Add your user to sudoer if not already done, using:

usermod -aG sudo "{REPLACE_WITH_YOUR_LINUX_USERNAME}"

Step 1.1 General Update

For all Distributions

sudo apt-get -y update && sudo apt-get -y upgrade

Step 1.2 Install Programs

For Ubuntu 16.04

sudo apt-get install apache2 curl subversion php7.0 php7.0-gd php7.0-zip libapache2-mod-php7.0 php7.0-curl php7.0-mysql php7.0-xmlrpc php-pear mysql-server php7.0-mbstring php-gettext git php-bcmath

For Ubuntu 18.04

sudo apt-get install apache2 curl subversion php7.2 php7.2-gd php7.2-zip libapache2-mod-php7.2 php7.2-curl php7.2-mysql php7.2-xmlrpc php-pear mysql-server php7.2-mbstring php-gettext git php-bcmath

For Debian 10

sudo apt-get install apache2 curl subversion php7.3 php7.3-gd php7.3-zip libapache2-mod-php7.3 php7.3-curl php7.3-mysql php7.3-xmlrpc php-pear mariadb-server php7.3-mbstring php-gettext git php-bcmath

For Debian 9

sudo apt-get install apache2 curl subversion php7.0 php7.0-gd php7.0-zip libapache2-mod-php7.0 php7.0-curl php7.0-mysql php7.0-xmlrpc php-pear mysql-server php7.0-mbstring php-gettext git php-bcmath

Note: During the MySQL server installation, if you are prompted to provide a root user password. Please choose something secure and write it down, as the installer will ask you for it to create the initial OGP database later.

Step 1.3 Add Security

Secure your Database installation and setup root password using the follow command.

This setup is not necessary if you are already prompted to setup MySQL root password in previous setup. (for older version of Ubuntu/Debian)

sudo mysql_secure_installation

Note: During this process, you will be asked to set a root user password. Please choose something secure and write it down, as the installer will ask you for it to create the initial OGP database later.

Step 2 - Download and Install OGP Panel

Now we will download the Panel Easy-Installer of OGP and run it.

Step 2.1 Download

wget "https://github.com/OpenGamePanel/Easy-Installers/raw/master/Linux/Debian-Ubuntu/ogp-panel-latest.deb"
sudo dpkg -i "ogp-panel-latest.deb"

This will prompt you to enter your MySQL root password. Please go ahead and enter your secure MySQL root password.

Once this is done, It will create a database and display some information as shown below. Note down this information as we will need it in the next steps:

MySQL Host: localhost
MySQL User: <holu>
MySQL User Password: <password>
MySQL Database Name: ogp_panel

Step 2.2 Install

Now open the browser and go to http://<10.0.0.1>/index.php It will perform some check to verify if system is compatible. You need to scroll down and click on "Next".

It will display a form asking for MySQL database information. Go ahead and enter the details we got at the end of Step 2.1 and click "Next".

Now it will display a form to create an admin user. Enter details as per your liking and click "Next".

Finally it ask to delete install.php and change ownership of includes/config.inc.php to 644 for security purpose which we will do next.

Open your SSH and run:

rm /var/www/html/install.php
chmod 644 /var/www/html/includes/config.inc.php

Congrats! Open Game Panel is now installed on your Server. You can open your browser and login using http://<10.0.0.1>/index.php

Step 3 - Installing a Theme (Optional)

Lets be honest, Open Game Panel default theme is quite boring. You can install some theme from searching on Internet for OGP Themes.

Here we will be installing a very cool theme called Obsidian created by HMR.

Open your SSH and run:

cd /var/www/html/themes/
clone https://github.com/hmrserver/Obsidian.git
mv Obsidian/themes/Obsidian/* Obsidian/
rm -r Obsidian/themes

Now go to your OGP Panel and navigate to Administration > Theme Settings, change the theme to "Obsidian" and save it.

Now you have an awesome theme for your Panel. Enjoy!

Conclusion

Your OGP Panel is now ready to be used for controlling hundreds of different types of gameservers. You can add Agents to your Panel from Administration -> Servers section.

License: MIT