Thread: Ubuntu 11.10 x86/x64 rtorrent/rutorrent setup

This tutorial is in no way a complete setup of a server. It is ONLY for rtorrent/rutorrent in Ubuntu 11.10 - x86/x64, but might work in Ubuntu 11.04 as well. Maybe even the new Ubuntu 12.04 LTS...it would be nice. :)

First we want to compile in rTorrent because the version in Ubuntu Karmic is only 0.8.2 which doesnt work nicely with newest version of ruTorrent.

sudo apt-get install subversion build-essential libtool automake1.11 openssl libcurl3 libcurl3-dev libsigc++-2.0-0c2a libsigc++-2.0-dev libncurses5 libncurses5-dev php-xml-rss libxmlrpc-c3-0 libxmlrpc-c3-dev rtorrent

Now to make the .rtorrent.rc file which should be in the home folder of the user running rtorrent

cd ~/
nano .rtorrent.rc

Paste this in

# Maximum and minimum number of peers to connect to per torrent.
min_peers = 100
max_peers = 200
# Same as above but for seeding completed torrents (-1 = same as downloading)
min_peers_seed = 10
max_peers_seed = 500
# Maximum number of simultanious uploads per torrent.
max_uploads = 200
# Global upload and download rate in KiB. "0" for unlimited.
download_rate = 0
upload_rate = 0
# Default directory to save the downloaded torrents.
directory = ~//torrents/downloads
# Default session directory.
session = ~//torrents/rtorrent.session
# Watch a directory for new torrents, restart torrents that have been copied back and stop those that have been
# deleted.
schedule = watch_directory,10,10,"load_start=~//torrents/torrentfiles/*.torrent"
schedule = tied_directory,10,10,start_tied=
schedule = untied_directory,10,10,close_untied=
# Close torrents when diskspace is low.
schedule = low_diskspace,5,60,close_low_diskspace=100M
#Stop torrents when reaching upload ratio 300 percent
ratio.enable= ratio.min.set=300
# Port range to use for listening.
port_range = 63001-63001
# Start opening ports at a random position within the port range.
port_random = no
# Set whetever the client should try to connect to UDP trackers.
use_udp_trackers = no
# Encryption options. This can be useful when using an ISP that uses traffic shaping.
encryption=allow_incoming,try_outgoing,enable_retr y,prefer_plaintext
scgi_port = 127.0.0.1:5000
xmlrpc_dialect=i8
#DHT
dht = disable
#dht_port = 6881
peer_exchange = no

**NOTE**
You MUST change the red highlighted area to the user on your server. All other options can be set to however you want such as min/max peers, dht, peer exchange, etc...This is set to what I use on 100 Mbit servers.
Now we need to activate scgi support in Apache 2

sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-scgi
sudo a2enmod scgi

Next you need to add the SCGI mount for rTorrent First open sites-available for editing

sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/default

Paste the red highlighted area at the bottom just above <VirtualHost>

SCGIMount /RPC2 127.0.0.1:5000
<location /RPC2>
<Limit GET POST>
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from 127.0.0.1
allow from 192.168.1.254
allow from 192.168.1.0/24
</Limit>
</location>
<VirtualHost>

Now we need to restart Apache 2

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Now download ruTorrent and move this folder to /var/www

wget http://rutorrent.googlecode.com/file...ent-3.3.tar.gz
tar xvzf rutorrent-3.3.tar.gz
sudo mv rutorrent /var/www/rtorrent

You need to change the ownership of the directory of rtorrent in /var/www to the user you will be using

sudo chown -R <your user>:www-data /var/www/rtorrent

**NOTE**
Make sure you add your username where it is highlighted in red.
Now we’re ready to start rtorrent with the selected user. Login with your normal user and run

rtorrent

Now you can login to http://<your servers IP>/rtorrent

Nice but is /var/www/rtorrent a typo? usually that would be /var/www/rutorrent

you can make it rutorrent if you want. i use rtorrent. just make sure throught the rest of the tutorial that you use the same name where it says rtorrent.
-Example-
sudo mv rutorrent /var/www/sillywillydilly
sudo chown -R <your user>:www-data /var/www/sillywillydilly
http://<your servers IP>/sillywillydilly

oh sorry for causing confusion. If you were to use rutorrent instead of renaming to rtorrent you wouldn't need to move directory at all you could just extract it directly to your webroot.

sudo tar xvf rutorrent-3.3.tar.gz -C /var/www

Indeed. :) Thanks for the tip. The more info, and the more options are always welcomed and better for users really. So they can get a better feel for the Linux Environment since most dont know much about it.

I am in the works of a complete server setup with Ubuntu 11.10 just like this one.
Ubuntu Server w/ GUI, Permenant Auto Connecting SSH Tunnel, Fail2Ban, etc....

It will be a couple weeks though as these things take time. I will use your rutorrent method on that as I could see how it would confuse others. Thanks.

You can have rtorrent run a command or script after the download completes. I don't know how useful that would be on a server maybe send an email. I use linux at home as my desktop computer so what I did was have a sound play and send pop-up notification similar to transmission then fades away and is completely gone after 5 secs.

.rtorrent.rc

Code:

system.method.set_key = event.download.finished,notify_dbus,"execute=/usr/local/bin/rtor-download-complete.sh,$d.get_name="

rtor-download-complete.sh

Code:

#!/bin/sh
#
ICON=emblem-default
EXPIRE=5000
MESSEGE="Download Complete"
SOUND="/usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/complete.oga"
VOL="12000"
##
#
DISPLAY=:0 notify-send -t $EXPIRE -i $ICON " $MESSEGE " "$1" &
paplay --volume=$VOL $SOUND

Didn't want to post a new thread as this as it isn't a really complete guide..

Used 2 days following a similar outdated guide my self. Real pain figure out what was missing all the time (all the apt-get ...) But since most of it is already mentioned here I thought I might share the other parts here for other people.

My setup is Ubuntu 11.10 on VirtualBox. Multiuser support, all the plugins for ruTorrent. Screenshots, mediainfo etc etc. I won't write everything down, as it can be found elsewhere.


[Make rTorrent download the files to a shared network folder (or Virtual host)]

A In Windows
Since I run Windows 7, I'd like my downloads to be accessible on windows. I tried with the "normal" way with the built-in folder sharing (samba/SMB) with windows and smbmount in Ubuntu as well as the "Shared folder" stuff with VirtualBox, but ruTorrent threw ""Storage error: [File chunk write error: Invalid argument.]"" Also tried the " watch -n 1 `sync; echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches` " but this didn't help at all. Either way... NFS worked perfectly and also gave me a performance boost as well.


So I created an empty folder on one of my harddrives in windows, and downloaded "haneWin NFS" (google it). Follow these steps Configuring Windows 7 as NFS Server for XTreamer - YouTube from 0:55-2:11. Important: Tick the box with "Allow mount of remote devices". In the text file, write the path of the folder you want to make rTorrent download to. Here is my file:

Code:

# exports example


D:\Downloads\box

Next, find your local IP on the windows machine (Start>Cmd>ipconfig somewhere) and remember it.

B In Ubuntu

Install this stuff:

Code:

 sudo apt-get install nfs-common 

Now, replace 123.123.123.123 with the local IP you found of the file server.
After the first "/", type the path of the folder in step A.
Replace "/home/exampleuser/rutorrrent/downloads" with the directory you set rTorrent to download to.

Code:

sudo mount -t nfs 123.123.123.123:/d/Downloads/box /home/exampleuser/rutorrrent/downloads

If you get any errors, compare my examples from step A and B. This code has to be run every time you reboot. I know there is a way to do this by "sudo nano /etc/fstab" but I am too lazy right now.. (Maybe "theiphere:/D/downloads/box /home/user/rutorrent nfs"?)

[Installing mediainfo and screenshot plugins] (Except host name resolver, zip on the web is corrupt, maybe you have a working one?)

Mediainfo allows you to view technical information about a given media file in ruTorrent. Select torrent>Files tab>Rightclick at the file and select mediainfo.
Screenshot is a plugin that takes screenshots of your movie files and shows you them in ruTorrent. The settings can be adjusted (Settings>Screenshots).

Code:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:shiki/mediainfo
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ffmpeg
cd /var/www/rutorrent/plugins
sudo svn checkout http://rutorrent.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/plugins/mediainfo
sudo svn checkout http://rutorrent.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/plugins/screenshots
cd /var/www
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data rutorrent 
sudo chmod -R 777 rutorrent

Why would you want to run ubuntu vm? Its not like windows doesn't have any good bittorrent clients. To me it seems stupid to install an OS via VM so you can install a bittorrent client that has a webui that immolates a bittorrent client you could have installed natively on original OS.

Its a good tutorial, but I agree with res0. Windows has plenty of clients that work well. Especially on a server where you would pay extra to run windows server...why install Ubuntu on VM when it is free? Also you could just install rtorrent/rutorrent in Cygwin and use less resources than a VM would.

None the less it is a great tutorial and would be useful for Home servers, but not for a remote CLI. You should make this its own tutorial, Im sure there are circumstances where it would be needed and someone would find it useful. :)