Linux Torrent Box?

[SRI Ben]

Hi all,

just got an intel atom mini itx rig and after installing windows home server i was dissapointed so id like to go to linux for security reasons, what torrent programs are about for linux and which version is best for a server?

Cheers

 

[BillytheImpaler]

Torrentflux is your best bet. It is a torrent program that is operated through a web interface; you go to your computer's web address, either from your home network, or from anywhere in the word if configured, and you operate the program, finding, uploading, and downloading torrents. It's really slick.

It used to be a pain to set up, but I think that's improved greatly lately. There are loads of howtos explaining it these days.

 

[bigredshark]

Torrentflux is your best bet. It is a torrent program that is operated through a web interface; you go to your computer's web address, either from your home network, or from anywhere in the word if configured, and you operate the program, finding, uploading, and downloading torrents. It's really slick.

It used to be a pain to set up, but I think that's improved greatly lately. There are loads of howtos explaining it these days.

Still a fiddle if you've never done anything like that before, but really it's just apache, mysql and you're good to go...

 

[JimAroo]

Yea I'd say TorrentFlux.. excellent program used it before.. it has a cool mod available too called b4rt.

 

[SRI Ben]

sounds great but ive never used linux before or MySQL or Apache

 

[JimAroo]

TorrentFlux can run on any Operating system, as it's coded in PHP/MySQL.

Your better off installing Wamp (As it includes PHP/MySQL/Apache) good for beginners, if TorrentFlux is the way you want to go that is.

There are other clients for linux.. Ktorrent (Like a uTorrent clone), Rtorrent (Unix like program), Azureus. Problem is these don't offer anyway near as much flexibility as TorrentFlux.

 

[Clown]

SABnzbd+ is fine.

 

[tntcoder]

rtorrent + ssh = ***

 

[bigredshark]

rtorrent + ssh = ***

torrentflux wins still in my book, I can add torrents from any old web browser I stumble across while bored, you need an ssh client...

 

[SRI Ben]

i really like the idea of being able to log in over the net and download so i think torrentflux is the way forward, any ideas on which version of linux will be best? also do i need to do anything about security?

 

[BillytheImpaler]

Ubuntu or Debian Stable would be fairly easy to set up.

As far as security is concerned you'll probably want to change default port numbers and be sure that your NAT router is properly configured if you're going to open it up to the world.

You'll end up doing the same things to secure it that anybody would do to any Apache installation since that's all it is.

 

[SRI Ben]

ive got a copy of ubuntu somewhere, i have a netgear dg834gt which has nat so id just need to open the right port to allow access over the web?

 

[NicNac]

Up until I decided to move I had a box setup with torrentflux (b4rt is a mod of tf, I think) and could go anywhere. when a new distro came out and I was visiting the in-lawsp) I could add it to the que and let it download so when I got home I wouldnt have to wait.

 

[bigredshark]

i really like the idea of being able to log in over the net and download so i think torrentflux is the way forward, any ideas on which version of linux will be best? also do i need to do anything about security?

Run nicely under centos for me, but it's really just another webapp so it'll run fine on any LAMP box, distro is pretty irrelevent. Ubuntu is obviously the one with the easy to use reputation so it might be a good starting point, I couldn't say myself, I've always been a redhat man..

 

[JonB]

Are there any mods / addons that allow you to define the 'type' of file you're downloading, then depending on the type you have set, it will move the file to a certain folder or automatically unzip it etc?

 

[BillytheImpaler]

Are there any mods / addons that allow you to define the 'type' of file you're downloading, then depending on the type you have set, it will move the file to a certain folder or automatically unzip it etc?

I can't remenber if torrentflux has this sort of option in it, but even if it doesn't you can still use a really simple shell script to do the same thing. IIRC TF lets you run a program when the file's finished. If so, tell it to run your little move script.

something like

#!/bin/sh
mv *.iso ~/distos/new/
mv *.avi ~/videos/
mv *.ogg ~/music/

and so on...