wTorrent and RUtorrent: web UI for rtorrent

RuTorrent Installation

ruTorrent is preferred WebUI for rtorrent. Its installation is as simple as unpacking downloaded tarballs and changing a single parameter.

I chose the following components from download area (get all in a single package):

• rtorrent - the core of ruTorrent,
• rpc - with this plugin client the server php side of ruTorrent performs direct access to rtorrent via xml-rpc; without it you would have to configure a SCGI mount like for wTorrent, and this mount should be visible from client machine, which is very insecure;
• create - allows to create torrent files remotely;
• datadir - allows to check default torrent directory to a custom location;
• erasedata - allows to delete torrent data together with torrent;
• ratio - allows to control ratio limits for torrents or torrent groups;
• rss - allows to publish torrent upload/download events in form of rss;
• scheduler - allows reconfigure rtorrent bandwidth limit schedule from web interface;
• trafic - monitors and visualizes rtorrent traffic over time;

The following plugins were not chosen:

• dark palette - default palette is fine;
• geoIP - it is not supported by tpc plugin;
• show peers like wtorrent - is useless since private trackers have;
• throttle - my version of rtorrent does not support throttling;

Configuration... Edit config.php and change rtorrent connection parameters:

$scgi_port = 8501;
$scgi_port = 5000;

[Here will follow instructions on tighter integratation with rtorrent...]

wTorrent Installation

Download wTorrent zip from wTorrent download page and extract into /var/www/bittorrent/wtorrent. Or, install r99 from svn (mirror):

mkdir -p /var/www/bittorrent
cd /var/www/bittorrent
svn co -r99 svn://wtorrent-project.org/repos/trunk/wtorrent
chown -R apache:apache /var/www/bittorrent/wtorrent

Install apache and php prerequisites

yum install mod_scgi php-xmlrpc

Create apache configuration snippet /etc/httpd/vhosts/bittorrent.conf

SCGIMount /RPC2 127.0.0.1:8501
<Location /RPC2>
Order deny,allow
Allow from 127.0.0.1 192.168.1.1
Deny from all
</Location>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName bt.ourdom.com:80
DocumentRoot /var/www/dummy
Include vhosts/common.inc
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule    ^/(.*)$  https://bt.ourdom.com/$1  [L,R]
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:443>
ServerName bt.ourdom.com:443
DocumentRoot /var/www/bittorrent
Include vhosts/ssl.inc
<Location />
Include vhosts/authorize.inc
</Location>
</VirtualHost>

I deliberately put "/RPC2" location outside the virtual "bt" server. It becomes shared by other virtual servers, in particular by "localhost", which does not redirect to a secure location (the wTorrent internal http access does not support ssl and redirections).

Point your browser to http://bt.ourdom.com/wtorrent/install.php and set a few parameters

rTorrent scgi host:                  localhost
rTorrent scgi port:                  80
rTorrent scgi folder:                /RPC2
Enable auth for the scgi folder:     NO
Folder to save uploaded torrents:    torrents/
Folder where wTorrent is:            /var/www/bittorrent/wtorrent/
Default folder to save torrent data: /var/www/bittorrent/downloads/

Remove or rename install.php

Attachments

ruTorrent 2009/10/05

rutorrent-20091005.tar.gz 316.9 KB

wTorrent rev.99

wtorrent-trunk-r99.tar.gz 361.88 KB