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Pritunl Documentation

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Installation

Install and configure Pritunl

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Below are several methods available for installing Pritunl. When using Amazon AWS it is recommended to use the AMI available below.

Enterprise Clusters

If you intend on creating a Pritunl cluster with multiple hosts all the hosts will need to connect to the same MongoDB database. For cluster configurations it is best to have a dedicated server that is not running Pritunl for the MongoDB database. Single host configurations can run MongoDB with Pritunl on the same server.

Recommended AWS Instance Types

For MongoDB memory optimized instances (r3.large, r3.xlarge) are best and compute optimized instances (c4.large, c4.xlarge) are best for Pritunl nodes. For large deployments several small nodes with fewer connections per node is better then fewer larger nodes with more connections per node. For the best performance it is recommended to spend $0.50-$1.00 per concurrent connection each month on server costs. More information on AWS recommendations can be found in the Scaling documentation.

Amazon AMI

Below are links to an AMI that includes Pritunl and MongoDB. The AMI will automatically upgrade packages to the newest versions on startup.

An AMI is also available that does not come with MongoDB for Enterprise clusters that run a MongoDB server separately from the Pritunl instances:

Ubuntu Automated Install Script

The script below will automate the installation of Pritunl and MongoDB on an Ubuntu 16.04 server. This can be used on DigitalOcean by pasting it in the User Data field.

#!/bin/bash
echo "deb http://repo.mongodb.org/apt/ubuntu xenial/mongodb-org/3.4 multiverse" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-org-3.4.list
echo "deb http://repo.pritunl.com/stable/apt xenial main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pritunl.list
apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 0C49F3730359A14518585931BC711F9BA15703C6
apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 7568D9BB55FF9E5287D586017AE645C0CF8E292A
apt-get --assume-yes update
apt-get --assume-yes upgrade
apt-get --assume-yes install pritunl mongodb-org
systemctl start pritunl mongod
systemctl enable pritunl mongod

Linux Repositories

Pritunl is packaged for several Linux distributions, below are the commands for each distribution. This will install both MongoDB and Pritunl then start the services.

sudo tee -a /etc/pacman.conf << EOF
[pritunl]
Server = https://repo.pritunl.com/stable/pacman
EOF

sudo pacman-key --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com -r 7568D9BB55FF9E5287D586017AE645C0CF8E292A
sudo pacman-key --lsign-key 7568D9BB55FF9E5287D586017AE645C0CF8E292A
sudo pacman -Sy
sudo pacman -S --noconfirm pritunl mongodb
sudo systemctl start mongodb pritunl
sudo systemctl enable mongodb pritunl
sudo tee -a /etc/yum.repos.d/mongodb-org-3.4.repo << EOF
[mongodb-org-3.4]
name=MongoDB Repository
baseurl=https://repo.mongodb.org/yum/amazon/2013.03/mongodb-org/3.4/x86_64/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
gpgkey=https://www.mongodb.org/static/pgp/server-3.4.asc
EOF

sudo tee -a /etc/yum.repos.d/pritunl.repo << EOF
[pritunl]
name=Pritunl Repository
baseurl=https://repo.pritunl.com/stable/yum/centos/7/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
EOF

gpg --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 7568D9BB55FF9E5287D586017AE645C0CF8E292A
gpg --armor --export 7568D9BB55FF9E5287D586017AE645C0CF8E292A > key.tmp; sudo rpm --import key.tmp; rm -f key.tmp
sudo yum -y install pritunl mongodb-org
sudo service mongod start
sudo start pritunl
# SELinux must be disabled

sudo tee -a /etc/yum.repos.d/mongodb-org-3.4.repo << EOF
[mongodb-org-3.4]
name=MongoDB Repository
baseurl=https://repo.mongodb.org/yum/redhat/7/mongodb-org/3.4/x86_64/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
gpgkey=https://www.mongodb.org/static/pgp/server-3.4.asc
EOF

sudo tee -a /etc/yum.repos.d/pritunl.repo << EOF
[pritunl]
name=Pritunl Repository
baseurl=https://repo.pritunl.com/stable/yum/centos/7/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
EOF

sudo yum -y install epel-release
gpg --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 7568D9BB55FF9E5287D586017AE645C0CF8E292A
gpg --armor --export 7568D9BB55FF9E5287D586017AE645C0CF8E292A > key.tmp; sudo rpm --import key.tmp; rm -f key.tmp
sudo yum -y install pritunl mongodb-org
sudo systemctl start mongod pritunl
sudo systemctl enable mongod pritunl
sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-org-3.4.list << EOF
deb http://repo.mongodb.org/apt/debian wheezy/mongodb-org/3.4 main
EOF

sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pritunl.list << EOF
deb http://repo.pritunl.com/stable/apt wheezy main
EOF

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 0C49F3730359A14518585931BC711F9BA15703C6
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 7568D9BB55FF9E5287D586017AE645C0CF8E292A
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get --assume-yes install pritunl mongodb-org
sudo service mongod start
sudo service pritunl start
sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-org-3.4.list << EOF
deb http://repo.mongodb.org/apt/debian jessie/mongodb-org/3.4 main
EOF

sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pritunl.list << EOF
deb http://repo.pritunl.com/stable/apt jessie main
EOF

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 0C49F3730359A14518585931BC711F9BA15703C6
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 7568D9BB55FF9E5287D586017AE645C0CF8E292A
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get --assume-yes install pritunl mongodb-org
sudo systemctl start mongod pritunl
sudo systemctl enable mongod pritunl
# SELinux must be disabled
# Firewalld must be configured or disabled

sudo tee -a /etc/yum.repos.d/pritunl.repo << EOF
[pritunl]
name=Pritunl Repository
baseurl=https://repo.pritunl.com/stable/yum/fedora/25/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
EOF

sudo dnf -y install gpg
gpg --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 7568D9BB55FF9E5287D586017AE645C0CF8E292A
gpg --armor --export 7568D9BB55FF9E5287D586017AE645C0CF8E292A > key.tmp; sudo rpm --import key.tmp; rm -f key.tmp
sudo dnf -y install pritunl mongodb-server iptables
sudo systemctl start mongod pritunl
sudo systemctl enable mongod pritunl
# SELinux must be disabled
# Firewalld must be configured or disabled

sudo tee -a /etc/yum.repos.d/pritunl.repo << EOF
[pritunl]
name=Pritunl Repository
baseurl=https://repo.pritunl.com/stable/yum/fedora/26/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
EOF

sudo dnf -y install gpg
gpg --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 7568D9BB55FF9E5287D586017AE645C0CF8E292A
gpg --armor --export 7568D9BB55FF9E5287D586017AE645C0CF8E292A > key.tmp; sudo rpm --import key.tmp; rm -f key.tmp
sudo dnf -y install pritunl mongodb-server iptables
sudo systemctl start mongod pritunl
sudo systemctl enable mongod pritunl
sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-org-3.4.list << EOF
deb http://repo.mongodb.org/apt/ubuntu precise/mongodb-org/3.4 multiverse
EOF

sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pritunl.list << EOF
deb http://repo.pritunl.com/stable/apt precise main
EOF

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 0C49F3730359A14518585931BC711F9BA15703C6
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 7568D9BB55FF9E5287D586017AE645C0CF8E292A
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get --assume-yes install pritunl mongodb-org
sudo service pritunl start
sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-org-3.4.list << EOF
deb http://repo.mongodb.org/apt/ubuntu trusty/mongodb-org/3.4 multiverse
EOF

sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pritunl.list << EOF
deb http://repo.pritunl.com/stable/apt trusty main
EOF

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 0C49F3730359A14518585931BC711F9BA15703C6
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 7568D9BB55FF9E5287D586017AE645C0CF8E292A
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get --assume-yes install pritunl mongodb-org
sudo service pritunl start
sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-org-3.4.list << EOF
deb http://repo.mongodb.org/apt/ubuntu xenial/mongodb-org/3.4 multiverse
EOF

sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pritunl.list << EOF
deb http://repo.pritunl.com/stable/apt xenial main
EOF

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 0C49F3730359A14518585931BC711F9BA15703C6
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 7568D9BB55FF9E5287D586017AE645C0CF8E292A
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get --assume-yes install pritunl mongodb-org
sudo systemctl start pritunl mongod
sudo systemctl enable pritunl mongod
sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pritunl.list << EOF
deb http://repo.pritunl.com/stable/apt yakkety main
EOF

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 7568D9BB55FF9E5287D586017AE645C0CF8E292A
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get --assume-yes install pritunl mongodb-server
sudo systemctl start pritunl mongodb
sudo systemctl enable pritunl mongodb
sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pritunl.list << EOF
deb http://repo.pritunl.com/stable/apt zesty main
EOF

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 7568D9BB55FF9E5287D586017AE645C0CF8E292A
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get --assume-yes install pritunl mongodb-server
sudo systemctl start pritunl mongodb
sudo systemctl enable pritunl mongodb

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