Torrentflux Torrent Server

By: Dustin Macheske

Torrentflux is the best software program to turn a ancient server you have laying around into a torrent server. Torrentflux is like other file sharing servers you may have used in the past, but this program is meant for linux and can be accessed using a web gui.

Since Torrentflux-b4rt runs as a web gui, the best thing about Torrentflux is that it can be accessed from other computers on your local area network and while you are on the road away from home. The following directions will show you how to install torrentflux on Ubuntu 9.10, but can be used for other linux distributions with minor changes. The first thing that you are going to want to do is login under su.

su

After you log in under su, you now are going to have to install a basic lamp system on your linux pc. A lamp system consists of mysql and apache, which will allow you to access your torrentflux-b4rt from a web browser.

apt-get install apache2 php5-mysql libapache2-mod-php5 mysql-server bzip2

After you have installed the lamp system, we can begin to download and extract the torrentflux-b4rt torrent server.

cd /var/www

wget http://gunblade.fakap.net/doc/torrentflux-b4rt_1.0-beta2.tar.bz2

tar -xjvf torrentflux-b4rt_1.0-beta2.tar.bz2

This command will change the torrentflux-b4rt directory into a more easier one to remember.

mv torrentflux-b4rt_1.0-beta2 torrentflux

We also need to install a few more packages.

apt-get install zip unzip unrar php5-cli php5-gd phpmyadmin transmission-cli libdigest-sha1-perl libxml-dom-perl libxml-simple-perl libthreads-shared-perl libhtml-parser-perl

After you have installed the above programs, point Internet Explorer towards http://IP/torrentflux-b4rt/html/setup.php to begin setting up torrentflux.

Once you have selected MySQL for your database type, point another browser window towards http://IP/phpmyadmin and login under root using your mysql password you set earlier, so that you can create a new user for your torrentflux-b4rt account. Once phpmyadmin opens up, you will need to click on priviledges, and then on add a new user.

All you have to do is fill in the boxes on the top of the screen and hit the select all button under global priviledges. Make sure you remember the username and password, since this will be your login information for torrentflux-b4rt. After yoou have filled in the above forms, click on the go button. You have now created yourself a user name and password for your torrentflux account.

Once you have created yourself a username, go back to the http://IP/torrentflux-b4rt/html/setup.php page and fill in the information for your MySQL database. All you have to do to is fill in the forms, with the user account information you created on the http://IP/phpmyadmin page.

After you have created the torrentflux-br4t database, you now need to set the privileges to 777. There are a few ways to set the priviledges on these files. One way is to use webmin, which is displayed below. Or you can also chmod the files under the command window.

chmod 777 /var/www/torrentflux/html/inc/config/
chmod-777-torrentflux-b4rt

After you have completed the install you will notice there are a few programs that are not installed, but your torrentflux-b4rt torrent server will work perfectly fine without the other programs.

The last thing that you must do in order to access your torrentflux account is to remove /var/www/torrentflux-b4rt/html/setup.php.

rm /var/www/torrentflux/html/setup.php

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