Transmission Setup Help

[SScorpio]

I'm trying to get Transmission working on my WL-500gx. I have a flash drive setup as /opt and installed the transmission package off of ipkg.

I also setup thttpd; however, when I try to access the CGI I receive the following error message: "The requested URL '/cgi-bin/transmission.cgi' resolves to a file which is marked executable but is not a CGI file; retrieving it is forbidden."

I also copied a file into the configured source directory and processing never occurs.

Can anyone give me insight on getting this working?

[SScorpio]

I think I'm a little farther. I updated transmission today which placed a nice index in the www root. I also noticed that this package uses busybox_httpd so I didn't need to install and setup thttpd.

I've uninstalled thttpd and am now trying to access the CGI script from the busybox_httpd server which now appears to be running the script. However, I'm now receiving the following error:

/opt/share/www/cgi-bin/transmission.cgi: /opt/share/www/cgi-bin/transmission.cgi: 224: Syntax error: redirection unexpected


Any help would be appreciated.

[CountZero]

Do you have your work directory and configuration file set up properly?

[SScorpio]

I've attached my config I'm using.

#   Configuration
#   NOTE: no spaces around the = sign
#   the config will be sourced (eg. . transmission.conf)

SOURCE=/opt/torrents/source
WORK=/opt/torrents/work
TARGET=/opt/torrents/target
#MAILTO=torrent@somedomain.com
#MAILFROM=torrent@somedomain.com
MAILOPT="-smail.somedomain.com -f"
USER=admin
GROUP=root
DATE_FORMAT="%d %h %H:%M"

# Transmission daemon variables
PIDFILE=/opt/var/run/transmission.pid
ACTIVE=/opt/torrents/active-torrents.txt
HOME=/opt/torrents
WATCHDOG=300
LISTENING_PORT=65534
# set SPEED in kB/s or -1 for unlimited
UPLOAD_SPEED=-1
DOWNLOAD_SPEED=-1
#UPLOAD_SPEED=41
#DOWNLOAD_SPEED=180
# change SYSLOG from /tmp/syslog.log to
SYSLOG=/opt/var/log/messages

#Uncomment the following for UPNP NAT traversal
#NAT_TRAVERSAL=--nat-traversal

# Seed torrent after completition (YES or NO)
AUTOSEED="YES"

# Creating graphical log of transfer with gnuplot
# can be very site specific issue. See transmission.cgi
# how this variables are used.
GNUPLOT=/opt/bin/gnuplot
GNUPLOT_COMMAND=${WORK}/transfer.gnuplot
GNUPLOT_DATA=${WORK}/transfer.data
GNUPLOT_OUTPUT=/opt/share/www/transfer.png
HTTP_IMG_LOCATION=../transfer.png
#TZ offset in seconds. Use +- sign. DST manually
TIMEZONE_OFFSET=+3600

#Colors for command line. # comment out if not needed
GREEN="\033[32;1m"
#NC="\033[0m"
#BACK_UP="\033[1K\033[0G"
NORMAL="\033[0m"
WARN="\033[33;1m"
BAD="\033[31;1m"
BOLD="\033[1m"
GOOD="\033[32;1m"

I'm using a new install of the 1.9.2.7-7f firmware. I have a usb flash drive setup and mapped to /opt and also used for swap that I'm testing this with before I get an enclosure.

I'm using the default unslung ipkg feed from: http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/unslung/wl500g

I also have the following packages installed.

expat - 2.0.0-6 - XML Parser library
fontconfig - 2.3.2-4 - Font configuration library
freetype - 2.1.10-4 - Free truetype library
gconv-modules - 2.2.5-6 - Provides gconv modules missing from the firmware.  These are used by glibc's iconv() implementation.
gnuplot - 4.2.rc2-5 - Command-line driven interactive data and function plotting utility
ipkg - 0.99.149-2 - lightweight package management system
libgd - 2.0.33-3 - An ANSI C library for the dynamic creation of images
libjpeg - 6b-2 - collection of jpeg tools
libpng - 1.2.15-2 - Portable Network Graphics Libraries
libstdc++ - 0.2.0-6 - =Standard C++ library, wrapped for uClibc++
libuclibc++ - 0.1.12-4 - C++ standard library designed for use in embedded systems
nano - 2.0.2-1 - A pico like editor
ncurses - 5.6-1 - NCurses libraries
openssl - 0.9.7l-3 - Openssl provides the ssl implementation in libraries libcrypto and libssl, and is needed by many other applications and librari
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
transmission - 0.6+r1378-4 - lightweight BitTorrent client and daemon with WWW interface
zlib - 1.2.3-2 - zlib is a library implementing the 'deflate' compression system.

Any idea on what the problem could be?

drwxr-xr-x    5 admin    root         4096 Jan 18 19:30 torrents

drwxr-xr-x    2 admin    root         4096 Jan 18 19:30 source
drwxr-xr-x    2 admin    root         4096 Jan 18 19:30 target
drwxr-xr-x    2 admin    root         4096 Jan 18 19:30 work

[oleo]

you need to add cgipat

$ cat /opt/etc/thttpd.conf
dir=/opt/share/www
port=80
user=admin
nochroot
nosymlink
charset=iso-8859-2
cgipat=cgi-bin/*
novhost
logfile=/opt/var/log/thttpd.log
pidfile=/opt/var/run/thttpd.pid

[maros]

/opt/share/www/cgi-bin/transmission.cgi: /opt/share/www/cgi-bin/transmission.cgi: 224: Syntax error: redirection unexpected


Any help would be appreciated.

I've got the same error after upgrade from transmission_0.6+r1320-1 to transmission_0.6+r1378-4.

[SScorpio]

Thanks maros,

I just rolled back to 1320 rather than 1378 and everything appears to be functioning correctly.

[maros]

Thanks maros,

I just rolled back to 1320 rather than 1378 and everything appears to be functioning correctly.

Transmission-0.6+r1378-5 fixes this bug.

[SScorpio]

Yes Transmission-0.6+r1378-5 is now running the CGI interface like it should.

I place torrents in the source folder via samba and do a push on them to active and they are moved to the working folder.

At this point it never appears that they start. I see three processes of "transmissiond -p 58431 -w 300 -u -1 -d -1 -i /opt/var/run/transmission.pid /opt/torrents/active-torrents"; however, the .status files are never created and the log only contains:

Jan 20 15:57:10 transmission_watchdog: Transmission daemon restarted!
Jan 20 15:57:10 transmissiond[278]: Transmission daemon 0.7-svn (1378) started - http://transmission.m0k.org/

The transmissiond processes stay active; however, it does not appear that anything ever downloads and transfer.data file is always empty.

I am using public trackers that shouldn't care about the client and I have the port forwarded correctly.

[oleo]

Snipet from help file:

Known bugs:
* There is a problem with fork and pthreads in uclibc 0.9.19
See http://www.busybox.net/lists/uclibc/...ch/005825.html
This affect only users of Oleg firmware on Asus routers with
http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/op.../cross/stable/
package feed. Users are instructed to switch to
http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/op.../cross/stable/
which uses newer uClibc 0.9.28 and NLPT or change transmission_watchdog
daemon startup code to

nohup transmissiond -v 1 -p ${LISTENING_PORT} \
-w ${WATCHDOG} \
-u ${UPLOAD_SPEED} \
-d ${DOWNLOAD_SPEED} \
-i ${PIDFILE} ${ACTIVE} 2> /dev/null &

which will spawn daemon in foreground mode and trash error messages.

7. Tried manually pressing watchdog for nothing. Im still having that text under the buttons on the script page : /opt/share/www/cgi-bin/transmission.cgi: kill: 624: (249) - No such process .
It looks like daemon died for some reason. Take a look into syslog messages.
The recommended way for running is using "Oleg" feed and not default "wl500g".

[maros]

Yes Transmission-0.6+r1378-5 is now running the CGI interface like it should.

I place torrents in the source folder via samba and do a push on them to active and they are moved to the working folder.

At this point it never appears that they start. I see three processes of "transmissiond -p 58431 -w 300 -u -1 -d -1 -i /opt/var/run/transmission.pid /opt/torrents/active-torrents"; however, the .status files are never created and the log only contains:

Jan 20 15:57:10 transmission_watchdog: Transmission daemon restarted!
Jan 20 15:57:10 transmissiond[278]: Transmission daemon 0.7-svn (1378) started - http://transmission.m0k.org/

The transmissiond processes stay active; however, it does not appear that anything ever downloads and transfer.data file is always empty.

I am using public trackers that shouldn't care about the client and I have the port forwarded correctly.

Can't confirm. It works for me.

Try to kill the transmissiond, then run "sh -x /opt/sbin/transmission_watchdog" and check the output for errors.

[SScorpio]

Manually running the watchdog did not produce any errors.

I took oleo's advice and switched over to the oleg branch rather than the default wl500g branch and installed the new uLibC. After messing around to get everything setup correctly again I am now downloading torrents using the latest version of Transmission.

Everyone, thank you for all of the help.

[greengreen]

Hi,
I installed lighttpd and php along this tutorial
http://wl500g.info/showthread.php?t=5247 and this works.
Now I would like to use transmission how-to start it.I installed it but what's now how can i to run web-gui and how to start download torrents.
Can someone to write little tutorial please?

thanks very much

[oleo]

You can improve wiki at http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/Optware/Transmission with your comments.

For Oleg firmware there is no need for other httpd as busybox_httpd is enough.

[dccharacter]

I have read everything many many times and reinstalled everything several times. Still can't get it running. Can't access the page at the transmission address.

Haven't find a clear installation instruction...