Get some drink of choice and some snacks. This will take a while. We’ll be taking a minimal Debian 8 system and set up a seedbox all from scratch, using rTorrent/libTorrent, ruTorrent and Nginx.
Install dependencies
without some packages we can’t start here….
apt-get update apt-get upgrade apt-get install nginx php5-fpm apache2-utils subversion git screen build-essential automake libtool libcppunit-dev libcurl3-dev libsigc++-2.0-dev libcppunit-dev unzip unrar curl libncurses-dev libfuse-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libxml++2.6-dev libssl-dev php5-cli mediainfo
Create User
We need a user to run rTorrent. You can name it whatever you want, but if you chose something different, remember to adjust the configs in the rest of this article.
useradd rutorrent usermod -a -G rutorrent www-data usermod -a -G www-data rutorrent
Install XMLRPC-C
These is needed for the communication between nginx and rTorrent.
svn checkout https://svn.code.sf.net/p/xmlrpc-c/code/stable/ xmlrpc-c cd xmlrpc-c ./configure --disable-cplusplus make make install
Install libtorrent
git clone https://github.com/rakshasa/libtorrent.git cd libtorrent ./autogen.sh ./configure --disable-instrumentation make make install
Install rTorrent
Clone and compile. We need to make sure we configure –with-xmlrpc-c.
git clone https://github.com/rakshasa/rtorrent.git cd rtorrent ./autogen.sh ./configure --with-xmlrpc-c make make install ldconfig
Install and configure ruTorrent
This one is easy. We just need to clone the git repo into /var/www
mkdir -p /var/www cd /var/www git clone https://github.com/Novik/ruTorrent.git
now edit the conf/config.php
$topDirectory = "/home/rutorrent"
$scgi_port = 5000;
$scgi_host = "127.0.0.1"
$pathToExternals = array(
"php" => '', // Something like /usr/bin/php. If empty, will be found in PATH.
"curl" => '/usr/bin/curl', // Something like /usr/bin/curl. If empty, will be found in PATH.
"gzip" => '', // Something like /usr/bin/gzip. If empty, will be found in PATH.
"id" => '', // Something like /usr/bin/id. If empty, will be found in PATH.
"stat" => '/usr/bin/stat', // Something like /usr/bin/stat. If empty, will be found in PATH.
);
the curl and the stat settings are need to set otherwise RSS wouldn’t work.
Configure Nginx
now we create a Site configuration for ruTorrent.
just create and edit this file: /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/rutorrent
server {
listen 80;
server_name localhost;
root /var/www/ruTorrent;
index index.html index.htm index.php;
auth_basic "Restricted";
auth_basic_user_file /etc/nginx/.htpasswd;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
}
location /RPC2 {
include /etc/nginx/scgi_params;
scgi_pass 127.0.0.1:5000;
}
location ~ .php$ {
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root/$fastcgi_script_name;
}
}
We also want it password-protected or you want the world to see all your “linux iso’s”?
htpasswd -c /etc/nginx/.htpasswd rutorrent
now delete the default settings and restart nginx and php5-fpm
rm -f /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default service nginx restart && service php5-fpm restart
Configure rTorrent
now we need to configure rTorrent here is a sample ~/.rtorrent.rc you can modify it but don’t delete the SCGI Socket line.
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------- # BitTorrent # ---------------------------------------------------------------------- throttle.global_down.max_rate.set = 0 throttle.global_up.max_rate.set = 0 throttle.max_peers.normal.set = 200 throttle.max_peers.seed.set = -1 throttle.max_uploads.global.set = 200 throttle.min_peers.normal.set = 1 throttle.min_peers.seed.set = -1 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------- # Directories # ---------------------------------------------------------------------- directory = /home/rutorrent/ session = /home/rutorrent/.session #schedule = watch_directory,5,5,load_start=/root/rtorrent/watch/*.torrent encoding.add = UTF-8 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------- # Network # ---------------------------------------------------------------------- network.port_range.set = 10001-11000 network.scgi.open_port = 127.0.0.1:5000 network.port_random.set = yes network.tos.set = throughput protocol.pex.set = no trackers.use_udp.set = yes encryption = allow_incoming,try_outgoing,enable_retry # ---------------------------------------------------------------------- # Hash # ---------------------------------------------------------------------- pieces.hash.on_completion.set = no check_hash = no
After that we need to create the .session directory.
mkdir -p /home/rutorrent/.session
Configure rTorrent autostart
Many people will tell you to write an init script for this, but IMHO that’s overkill. I prefer to use /etc/rc.local
start-stop-daemon --start --chuid rutorrent --name rtorrent --exec /usr/bin/screen -- -fa -d -m /usr/local/bin/rtorrent
NOTE: In this setup is no ffmpeg installed so ruTorrent always complaining about it i don’t need it if you want it you can install it with the DebianMultimedia Repo.
