[How to] rtorrent & ntorrent

I figured I'd try to write a brief how to on getting the rtorrent/ntorrent working together since I've went through it recently in desperation (my Transmission is acting up and downloading really slow, with only half a dozen peers per torrent and no obvious problems to fix).

This is meant for those who wish to run an alternative BT (rtorrent) and do not mind using a client side interface (ntorrent) on their desktop to manage their torrents.

ntorrent is a Java based application and will work on any platform supporting Java >= 1.6. Go to its page and download the binary package to your desktop, it's in the featured downloads (bz2 file and any language addition you need).

Anyways, this might not be exactly step-by-step since I'm recollecting my journey and I might miss a step so please pitch in with your comments.

Oh, if you mess up your router I am not responsible - you have been warned!

I will assume that everyone has a similar setup, WL500gP, /opt and oleg's firmware/feeds.

First of all make sure you got everything up to date:

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ipkg update
ipkg upgrade

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Then we need to grab rtorrent, it will also install libtorrent and bunch of other things (xmlrpc etc) but no worries you need those as well :)

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ipkg install rtorrent

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We'll need to run apache or lighttpd to have scgi, so let's install the later:

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ipkg install lighttpd

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Also, we need screen:

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ipkg install screen

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...and bash

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ipkg install bash

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Now we are ready to do some configurating, first lighttpd, the config file for it is in /opt/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf so edit it:

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vi /opt/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf

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I have kept most things default, you may change the port from default 8081 to something else if you like.
I didn't, what I added was mod_scgi in the server.modules list (I added around the end, you can add anywhere as long as it's not commented):

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#                              "mod_rrdtool",
                                "mod_scgi",
                                "mod_accesslog" )

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At the very end of the file I've added the following:

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scgi.server = (                                                           
        "/RPC2" =>                                                       
                ( "127.0.0.1" =>                                           
                        (                                                   
                                "socket" => "/opt/var/run/rpc.socket",     
                                "check-local" => "disable",                 
                                "disable-time" => 0,  # don't disable scgi if connection fails
                        )                                                   
                )                                                           
        )

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This will enable passing the socket connection from rtorrent via lighttpd to our remote ntorrent client via http:// protocol.

Save and exit the file.

Let's make rtorrent config file next, I will use a non default location for it (it usually sits in your home dir as .rtorrent.rc but I want it on my mounted drive):

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vi /opt/etc/rtorrent.conf

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And these are some of the settings, you can adjust more settings by reading the rtorrent manpage

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scgi_local = /opt/var/run/rpc.socket
session = /opt/share/torrent/work
port_range = 10000-11000
directory = /opt/share/torrent/dl
check_hash = yes
encryption = prefer_plaintext
stop_on_ratio = 100
upload_rate = 50
max_uploads = 5

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I have used ports 10000-11000 for it, but you can use any port range you like. Remember that you will have to open these ports in your firewall, so...

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vi /usr/local/sbin/post-firewall

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This is what you should have, at least:

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#!/bin/sh

## FIREWALL
## set default policy
iptables -P INPUT DROP
## deny ftp access from WAN
iptables -I INPUT 1 -p tcp -i "$1" --syn --dport 21 -j DROP
## Allow access to various router services from WAN
## open 10000-11000 for rtorrent
for P in 10000:11000; do
  iptables -I INPUT 1 -p tcp --syn -i "$1" --dport $P -j ACCEPT
done

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You might wanna change your pre-shutdown as well, I used the one wirespot posted (thanks!).

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vi /usr/local/sbin/pre-shutdown

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...and add the following:

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#!/bin/sh
# This one is simple. I send signal INT to rtorrent
# to tell it to do a graceful shutdown that will make
# it save its hashes and full status. (You need to
# enable sessions with session=dir in rtorrent.rc
# for this to work!):
/bin/kill -INT $(/bin/pidof rtorrent) &
# Then I wait for 10 seconds to be sure it died
# gracefully. The rtorrent docs say it dies in 5,
# I just wanna make extra sure.
/bin/sleep 10

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Since we made the change to flashfs this needs to "stick" after reboot so:

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flashfs save && flashfs commit

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Next let's look at the script that starts rtorrent:

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vi /opt/etc/init.d/S99rtorrent

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I had to change it because I did not use su, my user already has root privileges so I'm pasting the entire script without comments, so replace what you have with code below:

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#!/opt/bin/bash
# Do not proceed unless some apps are available.
test -x /opt/bin/screen || exit 0
 
##Start Configuration##

# the full path to the filename where you store your rtorrent configuration
config=("/opt/etc/rtorrent.conf")
 
# set of options to run with each instance, separated by a new line
options=("-n -o import=/opt/etc/rtorrent.conf")

# default directory for screen, needs to be an absolute path                         
base="/opt/share/torrent"                                                             
                                                                                     
# name of screen session                                                             
srnname="rtorrent"                                                                   
#######################                                                                                                                               
PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/sbin:/opt/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin                 
DESC="rtorrent"                                                                       
NAME=rtorrent                                                             
DAEMON=/opt/bin/$NAME                                                                 
SCRIPTNAME=/opt/etc/init.d/S99rtorrent                                               
                                                                                     
# Gracefully exit if the package has been removed.                                   
test -x $DAEMON || exit 0                                                             
                                                                                     
checkcnfg() {                                                                         
  for (( i=0 ; i < ${#config[@]} ;  i++ )) ; do                                       
        if ! [ -r "${config[i]}" ] ; then                                             
                echo "cannot find readable config ${config[i]}. check that it is there and permissions are appropriate">&2
                exit 3                                                                                                   
        fi                                                                           
        session=$(cat "${config[i]}" | grep "^[[:space:]]*session" | sed "s/^[[:space:]]*session[[:space:]]*=[[:space:]]*//")
        if ! [ -d "${session}" ] ; then                                                                                     
                echo "cannot find readable session directory ${session} from config ${config[i]}. check permissions">&2 
                exit 3                                                                                                     
        fi                                                                                                               
  done                                                                                                                     
}                                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                           
d_start() {                                                                                                                 
logger "Starting."                                                                                                         
  [ -d "${base}" ] && cd "${base}"                                                                                         
  stty stop undef && stty start undef                                                                                       
  screen -ls | grep .${srnname}[[:space:]] > /dev/null || screen -dm -S ${srnname}                                         
  for (( i=0 ; i < ${#options[@]} ; i++ )) ;  do                                                                           
    sleep 3                                                                                                                 
    screen -S ${srnname} -X screen rtorrent ${options[i]}                                                                   
  done                                                                                                                     
}           
d_stop() {                                                                                                                 
  for (( i=0 ; i < ${#config[@]} ; i++ )) ; do                                                                           
        session=$(cat "${config[i]}" | grep "^[[:space:]]*session" | sed "s/^[[:space:]]*session[[:space:]]*=[[:space:]]*//")
        pid=$(cat ${session}/rtorrent.lock | awk -F: '{print($2)}' | sed "s/[^0-9]//g")                                     
        # make sure the pid doesn't belong to another process                                                               
        # skip the pid otherwise                                                                                           
        if ps | grep ${pid}.*rtorrent > /dev/null ; then                                                                   
                kill -s INT ${pid}                                                                                         
        fi                                                                                                                 
  done                                                                                                                     
}                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                         
checkcnfg                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                           
case "$1" in                                                                                                               
  start)                                                                                                                   
        echo -n "Starting $DESC: $NAME"                                                                                     
        d_start                                                                                                             
        echo "."                                                                                                           
        ;;                                                                                                                 
  stop)                                                                                                                     
        echo -n "Stopping $DESC: $NAME"                                                                                     
        d_stop                                                                                                             
        echo "."                                                                                                           
        ;;                                                                                                                 
  restart|force-reload)                                                                                                     
        echo -n "Restarting $DESC: $NAME"                                                                                   
        d_stop                                                                                                             
        sleep 1                                                                                                             
        d_start                                                                                                             
        echo "."                                                                                                           
        ;;                                                                                                                 
  *)                                                                                                                       
        echo "Usage: $SCRIPTNAME {start|stop|restart|force-reload}" >&2                                                     
        exit 1                                                                                                             
        ;;                                                                                                                 
esac                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                           
exit 0

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Hmm, so I guess that's it, let's reboot to make sure everything starts on its own, firewall applies new rules etc...

After reboot, do ps and you should see lighttpd running as well as screen with your rtorrent attached to it including the -n -o import=...rtorrent.conf.

Now, go to your browser and connect to the lighttpd:

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http://routerIP:8081

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You should see "lighttpd server is running." Excellent!

Next connect to the socket interface:

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http://routerIP:8081/RPC2

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You should see an empty screen (as in white...) but that's good. Otherwise if you get 500 Server error, then something is wrong. Either rtorrent isn't running, or lighttpd isn't passing RPC through the socket. Hard to say, you will have to troubleshoot it...

We are ready to connect to our rtorrent now. Unpack the downloaded ntorrent binary somewhere (C:\Program Files\ntorrent, /Applications/ntorrent, /opt/ntorrent ...) and run it. The *ix users can use .sh file included, Winblows users should double-click on the .jar file.

You will see a Profiles dialogue, select http from the protocol drop-down.

Under host enter the IP of your router.

Connection port is 8081 (default for lighttpd or whatever else you set it to).

Mountpoint is /RPC2 (remember that's what we told lighttpd to use as an interface between the rtorrent socket and the Web).

Username is your user on the router, and Password is its password.

Tick "Remember Password" and click "Save profile".

In a moment you should be connected. Look at the bottom of the ntorrent window, there are some numbers there. You should see the Port: 10000-11000 (range we have set earlier), and your Ping: 2 sec or so...zomg it worked, you lucky, you !

So, "File/Add torrent" and off you go, it's pretty simple to use - you'll figure it out on your own.

Happy Holidays!

P.S. This is how I've done it (to best of my knowledge/recollection) so if you run into trouble you are on your own...

Hello,

What can i say it is relay great tutorial for rtorret and ntorrent.

I LIKE IT

and yeah UPLOAD IS WORKING NORMAL now. With transmission i have big problems 0 upload 200 download :S so my ratio was f...... up :)

THX m8

Why not use:

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iptables -I INPUT 1 -p tcp --syn -i "$1" --dport 10000:11000 -j ACCEPT 


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instead of:

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for P in 10000:11000; do
  iptables -I INPUT 1 -p tcp --syn -i "$1" --dport $P -j ACCEPT
done 


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Finally, are you sure that rtorrent needs that much ports to be opened? I guess the default value is something like 4-10 ports.

Actually I suggest the following rework of the minimalistic post-firewall file:

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#! /bin/sh

## FIREWALL
## set default policy
iptables -P INPUT DROP
# remove last default rule
iptables -D INPUT -j DROP

## Allow access to various router services from WAN
## open 10000-11000 for rtorrent
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --syn -i "$1" --dport 10000:11000 -j ACCEPT 


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This allows painless addition of the new rules in the end of the INPUT chain which is generally more correct way in comparison with inserting them in the beginning.

However, strictly speaking this method implies a requirement to set: Internet Firewall - Basic Config - Logged packets type: NONE

Hello,

Default configuration is following:

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# Port range to use for listening.
port_range = 51777-51780 


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i use this port range and this iptables WHY? I have set ssh and other ports to open state.

example:

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for P in 22 8008 10000:11000; do
  iptables -I INPUT 1 -p tcp --syn -i "$1" --dport $P -j ACCEPT
done 


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Some one know what is this seating

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# Set whetever the client should try to connect to UDP trackers.
use_udp_trackers = yes 


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Hi!
I need some help, i done everything as written here, but screen and rtorrent doesn't seem to start. i have no idea why. lighttpd is working fine.
any ideas/suggestions?

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Originally Posted by Artus

Hi!
I need some help, i done everything as written here, but screen and rtorrent doesn't seem to start. i have no idea why. lighttpd is working fine.
any ideas/suggestions?

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I suggest you check if they are all installed properly and that they run on their own (so try them independently).

Maybe your S99rtorrent isn't chmod a+x? Also, see if there's anything in the logs as well...

during screen install:

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Configuring screen
chown: unknown user name: root
Successfully terminated.

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is that ok?

S99rtorrent's chmod is ok
thanks for the help!

Thanks for this tutorial.

Would it be possible to get wtorrent working ?

Anyway, I'm stuck with the "500 - Internal Server Error" when I'm trying mylocalip:8081/RPC2

It seems that rtorrent isn't starting with correct options, when I type ps I get:

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  103 admin      1340 S  /opt/sbin/lighttpd -f /opt/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf
  106 admin      752 R  dropbear
  123 admin          SW  [kjournald]
  127 admin      568 S  -sh
  208 admin      812 S  SCREEN -dm -S rtorrent
  210 admin      488 S  /bin/sh
  214 admin      400 R  ps

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I'm missing the "-n -o import=...rtorrent.conf" - right ?

lighttpd is working and when I start S99rtorrent manually - it starts with no errors.

However, when I do "./S99rtorrent stop" I get:

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Stopping rtorrent: rtorrentcat: /opt/share/torrent/work/rtorrent.lock: No such file or directory
kill: usage: kill [-s sigspec | -n signum | -sigspec] pid | jobspec ... or kill -l [sigspec]
.

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But I think I have made everything according to the guide - any ideas ?

hey

Try with this script for me its working.

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#!/bin/sh
/opt/bin/screen -dmS rtorrent rtorrent -o import="/opt/etc/rtorrent.conf" 2>&1 >/tmp/rtl 


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edit
dont start rtorrent with /S99rtorrent stop i run to some problem because of bash scripting.
wtorrent is also working go trough installation guied on wtorrent page
whit lastest build AJAX I have some problems in firefox

Bye

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Artus

during screen install:

Code:

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Configuring screen
chown: unknown user name: root
Successfully terminated.

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is that ok?

S99rtorrent's chmod is ok
thanks for the help!

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this is normal everyting its working i also run to this problem it OK

I get rtorrent working with

Code:

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scgi.server = (
"/RPC2" =>
( "127.0.0.1" =>
(
"host" => "127.0.0.1",
"port" => 5000,
"check-local" => "disable"
)
)
)

---

in lighttpd.conf

and

Code:

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scgi_port = localhost:5000

---

in rtorrent.conf instead of scgi_local = /opt/var/run/rpc.socket

Thanks for your hints!

I tried some different settings, but it turned out to be my rtorrent.conf that had an error.

(had to start rtorrent "normal" to find that out)

I'm using ssyyzz:s config.

Now its working :)

Will try wtorrent tomorrow.

Thanks again for this tutorial :)

I know that this is a bit off from the subject, but I'm stuck on the wtorrent install and was wondering if polde (or anyone else) could help me ?

nTorrent is working and I'm using ssyyzz:s konfiguration from above.

I have installed php-fcgi, edited lighttpd.conf and PHP is working.

I have edited wtorrent/conf/home.conf.php and put chmod 777 on db, torrents and tpl_c

When I browse to install.php I get the wtorrent install username/password page - but when I press "create" I get an empty red error-square.

I think there is something wrong in home.conf.php ?

I have set correct path:s and changed RT_AUTH to false - but there is no change.

Any ideas what is wrong ?

here is my config from wtorrent

PHP Code:

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<?php
// Base URL of application (where index.php is)
define( 'URL', 'http://canbruixa.homelinux.net/wtorrent/' );
define( 'BASE', 'http://canbruixa.homelinux.net/wtorrent/' );

// SQLite database file (set folder permision 0777 or chmod to httpd server) (wTorrent will create database when running install.php)
define( 'DB_FILE', 'db/database.db');

// Host or IP to connect to rTorrent
define( 'RT_HOST',                       'localhost');
define( 'RT_PORT',                        8008);
define( 'RT_DIR',                               'RPC2/');
define( 'RT_AUTH',                               false);
define( 'RT_USER',                               'admin');
define( 'RT_PASSWD',                               '****');
// where to use multicall or not
// if wTorrent makes your rtorrent crash, set this to true
define( 'NO_MULTICALL',                 true);

// Directory in which to save uploaded .torrent files (set folder permision 0777 or chmod to httpd server)
define( 'DIR_TORRENTS',         'torrents/');

// Full path to application directory (where index.php is)
define( 'DIR_EXEC',             '/opt/share/www/lighttpd/wtorrent/');

// Permision to set for uploaded .torrent files (don't touch unless you know)
define( 'PERM_TORRENTS',        0777);

// Default location to save downloaded files (can be set for every uploaded .torrent on the ui)
define( 'DIR_DOWNLOAD', '/mnt/rtorrent/work/');

// Don't touch any of the data below unless you know what you are doing
define( 'DIR_LANG',             'home/lang/' );
define( 'DIR_TPL',              'home/tpl/' );
define( 'DIR_TPL_COMPILE',      'tpl_c/' );
define( 'DIR_TPL_HTML',         'home/html/' );
define( 'DIR_BACKUP',           'backup/' );
define( 'DIR_UPLOAD',           'torrents/');

define( 'TITLE',                        'wTorrent' );
define( 'META_TITLE',           'rTorrent web interface' );
define( 'META_KEYWORDS',                'rtorrent xmlrpc interface php web html' );
define( 'META_DESCRIPTION',     'rtorrent web inrface using xmlrpc' );

define( 'DIR_CSS_DETALLS',              'home/css/detalls.css' );
define( 'DIR_CSS_ESTIL',                'home/css/estil.css' );
define( 'DIR_JS',                   'home/js/javasc.js' );
define( 'DIR_FAVICO',           'favicon.ico' );
//define( 'USER_RTORRENT',      'rtorrent');

define( 'DIR_IMG',              'home/img/' );
define( 'SRC_INDEX',            'index.php' );

define( 'SCRAMBLE',             false);
define( 'APP', 'wTorrent' );

// Librerias generales
require_once( 'lib/inc/includes.inc.php' );

// Autodeclaracion de clases
autoload( 'lib/cls/', 'cls/', 'home/cls/' );
// Definicion de rutas para UNIX
ini_set( 'include_path', DIR_EXEC );
?>

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and my rtorrent config

PHP Code:

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#scgi_local = /opt/var/run/rpc.socket
scgi_port = 127.0.0.1:5000
send_buffer_size = 65536
min_peers = 20
max_peers = 50
max_uploads = 5
download_rate = 100
upload_rate = 100
directory = /mnt/rtorrent/work/
schedule = watch_directory,5,5,load_start=/mnt/rtorrent/dl/*.torrent
session = /mnt/rtorrent/session
port_range = 51777-51780
check_hash = yes
use_udp_trackers = yes
schedule = ratio,30,60,stop_on_ratio=200 


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and lightphp

PHP Code:

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                                "mod_access",
                                "mod_fastcgi",
                                "mod_scgi",
#                               "mod_cml",
#                               "mod_trigger_b4_dl",
                                "mod_auth",
#                               "mod_status",
#                               "mod_setenv",
#                               "mod_fastcgi",
#                               "mod_proxy",
#                               "mod_simple_vhost",
#                               "mod_evhost",
#                               "mod_userdir",
#                               "mod_cgi",
#                               "mod_compress",
#                               "mod_ssi",
#                               "mod_usertrack",
#                               "mod_expire",
#                               "mod_secdownload",
#                               "mod_rrdtool",
                                "mod_accesslog" )

## a static document-root, for virtual-hosting take look at the
## server.virtual-* options
server.document-root        = "/opt/share/www/lighttpd/"

## where to send error-messages to
server.errorlog             = "/opt/var/log/lighttpd/error.log"

# files to check for if .../ is requested
index-file.names            = ( "index.php", "index.html",
                                "index.htm", "default.htm" )
## deny access the file-extensions
#
# ~    is for backupfiles from vi, emacs, joe, ...
# .inc is often used for code includes which should in general not be part
#      of the document-root
url.access-deny = ("~", ".inc", ".db", ".tpl.php", ".cls.php",".sqlite")

$HTTP["url"] =~ "\.pdf$" {
  server.range-requests = "disable"
}

###################################################################################
fastcgi.server              = ( ".php" =>
                      ((
                          "host" => "127.0.0.1",
                          "port" => 1026,
                            ))
                      )

##### wtorrent
scgi.server = (
 "/RPC2" => # RT_DIR
   ( "127.0.0.1" =>
      (
      "host" => "127.0.0.1", # Ip where rtorrent is listening
      "port" => 5000, # Port specified in .rtorrent.rc
      "check-local" => "disable"
 )
   )
    ) 


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hope it helps :D

Thanks a lot :)

One small thing: your lighttpd.conf is missing:

Code:

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server.modules              = (

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at the very top (could be useful for someone else)

Also - "server.port = 8080" is missing (?)

Anyway - we have about the same configuration - but I still have the same problem.

Now I have looked at my error.log from lighttpd and found this:

Code:

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(mod_fastcgi.c.2570) FastCGI-stderr: PHP Fatal error:  Class 'SQLiteDatabase' not found in /opt/share/www/lighttpd/wtorrent/install.php on line 23

(mod_fastcgi.c.2570) FastCGI-stderr: PHP Fatal error:  Class 'SQLiteDatabase' not found in /opt/share/www/lighttpd/wtorrent/lib/cls/Web.cls.php on line 46

---

What is strange is that the 2 different errors comes randomly, mostly the first one - but the second is also there a couple of times (during my many retries)

Is there something wrong with my fastcgi or with the wtorrent script ? (not very likely)

Or have I missed something simple ? (more likely)

OK here is server modul

PHP Code:

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server.modules              = (
#                               "mod_rewrite",
#                               "mod_redirect",
#                               "mod_alias",
                                "mod_access",
                                "mod_fastcgi",
                                "mod_scgi",
#                               "mod_cml",
#                               "mod_trigger_b4_dl",
                                "mod_auth",
#                               "mod_status",
#                               "mod_setenv",
#                               "mod_fastcgi",
#                               "mod_proxy",
#                               "mod_simple_vhost",
#                               "mod_evhost",
#                               "mod_userdir",
#                               "mod_cgi",
#                               "mod_compress",
#                               "mod_ssi",
#                               "mod_usertrack",
#                               "mod_expire",
#                               "mod_secdownload",
#                               "mod_rrdtool",
                                "mod_accesslog" ) 


---

port

PHP Code:

---

## bind to port (default: 80)
server.port                = 8008 


---

url.access

PHP Code:

---

url.access-deny = ("~", ".inc", ".db", ".tpl.php", ".cls.php",".sqlite")

$HTTP["url"] =~ "\.pdf$" {
  server.range-requests = "disable"
}

##
# which extensions should not be handle via static-file transfer
#
# .php, .pl, .fcgi are most often handled by mod_fastcgi or mod_cgi
static-file.exclude-extensions = ( ".fcgi", ".php", ".pl", ".py", ".rb" ) 


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one more thing :) did you install SQLlight :P

i use 20071107 version of wtorrent AJAX give me some problems

Quote:

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Originally Posted by polde

one more thing :) did you install SQLlight :P

i use 20071107 version of wtorrent AJAX give me some problems

---

Well, when I wrote my last entry I had not installed the 'sqlite' package, but since then I have installed both the sqlite package, restarted everything (same problem) - removed it and installed the sqlite2 package and restarted - still same problem.

Im using the 20071107 version of wtorrent too.

Otherwise - our setups are similar, I have the same entrys that you have.

I made a search and found a thread (in russian) in this forum where someone have the same problem - Link - but since I dont know russian, I dont know how they solved it ;)

I don't know why, but my rtorrent stopped working. I can connect with lighttpd, but not with rpc2 - I get "500 - Internal Server Error". When I resume screen (screen -r), I see rtorrent is not working. Any help?

Hey

For Russian translation use google

or direct link to translated web

Thanks Polde, I have read it - but I still cant find the solution (I might be stupid - I know ;) )

I made a total clean install (total erase of the harddrive and reset of Oleg), reinstalled everything and still have the same problem.

I think I'm missing an important package ?

This is what I have installed:

Code:

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bash - 3.2.17-1 - A bourne style shell
bzip2 - 1.0.4-2 - Very high-quality data compression program
cyrus-sasl-libs - 2.1.22-2 - Provides client or server side authentication (see RFC 2222).
gdbm - 1.8.3-2 - GNU dbm is a set of database routines that use extensible hashing. It works similar to the standard UNIX dbm routines.
ipkg-opt - 0.99.163-9 - The Itsy Package Manager
libcurl - 7.17.0-3 - Curl is a command line tool for transferring files with URL syntax, supporting FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, GOPHER, TELNET, DICT, FI
libdb - 4.2.52-3 - Berkeley DB Libraries
libsigc++ - 2.0.18-1 - libsigc++ implements a typesafe callback system for standard C++.
libtorrent - 0.11.9-1 - libtorrent is a BitTorrent library with a focus on high performance and good code.
libuclibc++ - 0.2.2-4 - C++ standard library designed for use in embedded systems
libxml2 - 2.6.30-2 - Libxml2 is the XML C parser and toolkit developed for the Gnome project.
libxslt - 1.1.22-1 - An XML Stylesheet processor based on libxml2
lighttpd - 1.4.18-1 - A fast webserver with minimal memory footprint.
nano - 2.0.7-1 - A pico like editor
ncurses - 5.6-3 - NCurses libraries
ncursesw - 5.6-1 - NCurses libraries with wide char support.
openldap-libs - 2.3.38-1 - Open Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
openssl - 0.9.7m-3 - Openssl provides the ssl implementation in libraries libcrypto and libssl, and is needed by many other applications and librari
pcre - 7.4-1 - Perl-compatible regular expression library
php - 5.2.5-1 - The php scripting language
php-fcgi - 5.2.5-1 - The php scripting language, built as an fcgi module
readline - 5.2-2 - The GNU Readline library provides a set of functions for use by applications that allow users to edit command lines as they are
rtorrent - 0.7.9-2 - rtorrent is a BitTorrent client for ncurses, using the libtorrent library.
screen - 4.0.3-2 - A screen manager that supports multiple logins on single terminal
sqlite - 3.5.4-1 - SQLite is a small C library that implements a self-contained, embeddable, zero-configuration SQL database engine.
termcap - 1.3.1-2 - Terminal emulation library
uclibc-opt - 0.9.28-12 - micro C library for embedded Linux systems
xmlrpc-c - 1.11.00-2 - A library providing modular implementation of XML-RPC for C and C++.
zlib - 1.2.3-2 - zlib is a library implementing the 'deflate' compression system.

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Can anyone see whats missing to get sqlite + php-fcgi working ?

Again - this the error I'm getting:

Code:

---

(mod_fastcgi.c.2570) FastCGI-stderr: PHP Fatal error:  Class 'SQLiteDatabase' not found in /opt/share/www/lighttpd/wtorrent/install.php on line 23

---

hey

can you post your config files here

rtorrent.conf, lihthttp.conf and wtorrent config file.

Regards,
M

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by polde

hey

can you post your config files here

rtorrent.conf, lihthttp.conf and wtorrent config file.

Regards,
M

---

Sure :)

rtorrent.conf:

PHP Code:

---

min_peers = 20

max_peers = 40

max_uploads = 5

download_rate = 1300

upload_rate = 1300

directory = /tmp/harddisk/torrent/download/

schedule = watch_directory,5,5,load_start=/tmp/harddisk/torrent/torrentfiles/

port_range = 5330-5480

port_random = yes

scgi_port = 127.0.0.1:5000 


---

lighttpd.conf:

PHP Code:

---

server.modules              = (

                                "mod_access",

                                "mod_auth",

                                "mod_fastcgi",

                                "mod_scgi",
                                "mod_accesslog" )

server.document-root        = "/opt/share/www/lighttpd/"

server.errorlog             = "/opt/var/log/lighttpd/error.log"

index-file.names            = ( "index.php", "index.html",
                                "index.htm", "default.htm" )


accesslog.filename          = "/opt/var/log/lighttpd/access.log"

url.access-deny = ("~", ".inc", ".db", ".tpl.php", ".cls.php",".sqlite")

$HTTP["url"] =~ "\.pdf$" {
  server.range-requests = "disable"
}

static-file.exclude-extensions = ( ".fcgi", ".php", ".pl", ".py", ".rb" )

server.port                = 8081

server.pid-file            = "/var/run/lighttpd.pid"

fastcgi.server              = ( ".php" =>
                      ((
                          "host" => "127.0.0.1",
                          "port" => 1026,
                            ))
                      )

scgi.server = (
 "/RPC2" => # RT_DIR
   ( "127.0.0.1" =>
      (
      "host" => "127.0.0.1", # Ip where rtorrent is listening
      "port" => 5000, # Port specified in .rtorrent.rc
      "check-local" => "disable"
 )
   )
    ) 


---

wtorrent.conf:

PHP Code:

---

// Host or IP to connect to rTorrent
define( 'RT_HOST',                       'localhost');
define( 'RT_PORT',                        8081);
define( 'RT_DIR',                               'RPC2/');
define( 'RT_AUTH',                               false);
define( 'RT_USER',                               'admin');
define( 'RT_PASSWD',                               'password');
// where to use multicall or not
// if wTorrent makes your rtorrent crash, set this to true
define( 'NO_MULTICALL',                 true);

// Directory in which to save uploaded .torrent files (set folder permision 0777 or chmod to httpd server)
define( 'DIR_TORRENTS',         'torrents/');

// Full path to application directory (where index.php is)
define( 'DIR_EXEC',             '/opt/share/www/lighttpd/wtorrent/');

// Permision to set for uploaded .torrent files (don't touch unless you know)
define( 'PERM_TORRENTS',        0777);

// Default location to save downloaded files (can be set for every uploaded .torrent on the ui)
define( 'DIR_DOWNLOAD', '/tmp/harddisk/torrent/download/');

// Don't touch any of the data below unless you know what you are doing
define( 'DIR_LANG',             'home/lang/' );
define( 'DIR_TPL',              'home/tpl/' );
define( 'DIR_TPL_COMPILE',      'tpl_c/' );
define( 'DIR_TPL_HTML',         'home/html/' );
define( 'DIR_BACKUP',           'backup/' );
define( 'DIR_UPLOAD',           'torrents/');

define( 'TITLE',                        'wTorrent' );
define( 'META_TITLE',           'rTorrent web interface' );
define( 'META_KEYWORDS',                'rtorrent xmlrpc interface php web html' );
define( 'META_DESCRIPTION',     'rtorrent web inrface using xmlrpc' );

define( 'DIR_CSS_DETALLS',              'home/css/detalls.css' );
define( 'DIR_CSS_ESTIL',                'home/css/estil.css' );
define( 'DIR_JS',                   'home/js/javasc.js' );
define( 'DIR_FAVICO',           'favicon.ico' );
//define( 'USER_RTORRENT',      'rtorrent');

define( 'DIR_IMG',              'home/img/' );
define( 'SRC_INDEX',            'index.php' );

define( 'SCRAMBLE',             false);
define( 'APP', 'wTorrent' );

// Librerias generales
require_once( 'lib/inc/includes.inc.php' );

// Autodeclaracion de clases
autoload( 'lib/cls/', 'cls/', 'home/cls/' );
// Definicion de rutas para UNIX
ini_set( 'include_path', DIR_EXEC ); 


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(ports and password are fake)

I have tried different download locations (/opt) since I read that /tmp could cause problems (?) but it didn't help.

I have also used a session directory for rtorrent, but that didnt help either.

Looking at it now, there might be something wrong in lighttpd.conf ?

Thanks for your help.

hey

did u put

PHP Code:

---

extension=sqlite.so
extension=pdo.so 


---

to php.ini ?

what about ntorrent did you try it ?

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by polde

hey

did u put

PHP Code:

---

extension=sqlite.so
extension=pdo.so 


---

to php.ini ?

what about ntorrent did you try it ?

---

ntorrent works for me.

Just to make things clear, I did try the extensions above to php.ini after reading the translated page the you linked earlier - but it did not help me.... then.

Now I tried it again - restarted the router and... it works! :)

I dont know whats different now from my earlier setup, but I dont care anymore ;)

wtorrent is kind of slow, but hey - its working, and it is a wonderful tool to manage rtorrent :)

BIG thanks for all your help polde!

:)

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Pulver

I dont know whats different now from my earlier setup, but I dont care anymore

---

Come to think about it - I might have forgotten to restart the router last time I tried.

And then I erased it from php.ini

darn :)

Hey

it nice that its working. I use Wtorrent to upload torrents file becuse u can put it to new folder /mnt/work/dvd for example and ntorrent for watching the transfer :)

Hi. Nice how to.

How can i limit the workload of rtorrent. I tried it with a torrent and after downloading for a while at fullspeed the router was almost dead ehe. It ate lots of ram and cpu and i couldn't even see webpages :)

I also want to know where in that script i can use the comand nice, to put this process in low priority.

Again, thanks for the HOWTO.

Please report bugs/feature requests to:

http://canbruixa.homelinux.net/trac/

Thanks

Could somebody please post a HOWTO?

i will post it next week.

Ntorrent or wtorrent?

for me ntorrent is better because w torrent take too much resources .

Hi,

I've been following the goings-on here, as i've been trying to move from Transmission to RTorrent, but I want a decent webui.

What I dont understand is why fastcgi has a port of 1026 - what is listening on this port?

I'm at the point that rtorrent works and is controllable via ntorrent - so I guess all my XML-RPC and wotnot are configured correctly. I have installed the two .so modules to lighttpd, as directed, and ive copied your configs almost verbatim here, but I still get 500 internal server error while trying to hit install.php. tailing the lighttpd logs shows:

(mod_fastcgi.c.2757) establishing connection failed: Connection refused socket: tcp:127.0.0.1:1026

(mod_fastcgi.c.2703) fcgi-server re-enabled: tcp:127.0.0.1:1026

which makes sense to me, as i dont see anything that should be listening on that port.... please enlighten me!

One other thing - S99rtorrent does not execute by itself on startup, despite being +x. If I run it manually it works fine. Any ideas how to troubleshoot this? (im a bit of a linux newbie).

Many thanks for the great work on this thread so far... i'm really happy to have ntorrent and rtorrent working, i'd just like to add the webui if i can... :)

Quote:

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One other thing - S99rtorrent does not execute by itself on startup, despite being +x. If I run it manually it works fine. Any ideas how to troubleshoot this? (im a bit of a linux newbie).

---

install the last versions of rtorrent and libtorrent (SVN-1027). The S99rtorrent was reworked there. Post here if it doesn't work again.

used this:

fastcgi.server = ( ".php" =>
( "localhost" =>
(
"socket" => "/tmp/php-fcgi.sock",
"bin-path" => "/opt/bin/php-fcgi",
"bin-environment" => (
"PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN" => "4",
"PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS" => "4000"
)
)
)
)

which i found here: http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/HowT...ppUsingFastCGI

re: the S99 thing... i actually replaced my S99 with the one in this thread, then to the very minimal one in this thread because the first one kept failing with sed problems. will the standard S99rtorrent work with this RPC / ntorrent / wtorrent setup?

EDIT: Answer is no. Will have to patch my freshly installed S99rtorrent...

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Answer is no

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The new S99rtorrent has advantage that it has been rewritten to eliminate need in bash. So, it uses standard /bin/sh as interpreter and it runs fine during startup. The disadvantage for you is that it runs rtorrent as a non root user (which is a recommended way to run p2p software), so either you should follow this guide: http://wl500g.info/showpost.php?p=66875&postcount=19 or edit it similarly to the file on the first page to enable strting by root.

thanks al379... i'll give that a try now :)

had some weird goings on, like loads and loads of instances of php-fcgi running. might try to get it working the same way guys here have.

actually, on reflection, i might just give up and just use ntorrent - i had that working nicely ;) hmm.. can you get ntorrent in an applet? can we serve applets from the asus?

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Originally Posted by ssyyzz

I get rtorrent working with

Code:

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scgi.server = (
"/RPC2" =>
( "127.0.0.1" =>
(
"host" => "127.0.0.1",
"port" => 5000,
"check-local" => "disable"
)
)
)

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in lighttpd.conf

and

Code:

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scgi_port = localhost:5000

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in rtorrent.conf instead of scgi_local = /opt/var/run/rpc.socket

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Not sure how this "scgi.server =" could help a thing as it is not recognised but the lighttpd ;-)

Code:

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Starting web server: lighttpd
2008-01-25 13:24:12: (server.c.918) WARNING: unknown config-key: scgi.server (ignored)

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Oops... found that ther was "mod_scgi" missing in the list of enabled modules in lighttpd.conf.

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Originally Posted by munky

had some weird goings on, like loads and loads of instances of php-fcgi running.

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To limit number of running processes php-fcgi from something like 8 to something like 2, add the following to the file lighttpd.conf in the section fastcgi.server

PHP Code:

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"min-procs" => 1,
"max-procs" => 1,
"max-load-per-proc" => 4, 


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Hello friends,
I am novice so
Does it work rtorrent+ntorrent configuration even when my Pc is off?
I am using transsmision, probably if it is working when the Pc is offline I will migrate to this one.

Thanx