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Pritunl

Self-Hosting & Servers 2026-08-28

Purpose: Enterprise-grade VPN with a modern web UI. Supports WireGuard and OpenVPN, SSO, multi-site routing, and audit logging. Requires MongoDB.

1. MongoDB Backend

# ~/pritunl-mongo/compose.yaml
services:
  pritunl-mongo:
    image: mongo:6
    ports:
      - 127.0.0.1:27017:27017
    volumes:
      - /home/user/pritunl/mongo:/data/db:Z
    restart: unless-stopped
cd ~/pritunl-mongo && podman-compose up -d

2. Pritunl Server

# ~/pritunl/compose.yaml
services:
  pritunl:
    image: linuxserver/pritunl:latest
    network_mode: host
    volumes:
      - /home/user/pritunl/config:/etc/pritunl:Z
    cap_add:
      - NET_ADMIN
      - SYS_ADMIN
    restart: unless-stopped
cd ~/pritunl && podman-compose up -d

Initial setup

  1. Generate setup key: podman exec pritunl pritunl setup-key
  2. Access UI: https://<server-ip>:443
  3. Set MongoDB URI: mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017/pritunl
  4. Create Org → Add Users → Create Server → Attach → Start

Firewall: sudo firewall-cmd --add-port=443/tcp --add-port=51820/udp --add-port=1194/udp --permanent && sudo firewall-cmd --reload

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