Thread: rtorrent + rutorent server install (Centos5)

INSTALLING RTORRENT + RUTORRENT ON CENTOS 5

So i just finished installing/compiling rtorrent + rutorrent, for a friend of mine, on his server running Centos5. I was shocked there werent any good tutorials around on how to do this, so I figured why not make one myself for all those who want to run Centos out there.

INFO : If u are not good with Linux then i suggest u install your server with Ubuntu/Debian based Distro's, as they are more user friendly. Centos can be a little complicated at times, even for the experienced user.

NOTE : This tutorial is going off the basis that u already have a created user with sudo and u are ready to get down to the rtorrent install. Lets go ahead and login as root through SSH using a terminal like Putty.



PART 1 : Update System & get dependencies :

A : Lets update our system and get some dependencies to compile rtorrent.

• # yum update
• # yum install gcc gcc-c++ m4 make automake libtool pkgconfig perl openssl-devel ncurses-devel screen subversion lighttpd lighttpd-fastcgi php

PART 2 : Required software for rtorrent :

NOTE : First exit out of root and switch/login with your "super user" and make sure u are in your "home/user" dir > "$ cd /home/user"

A : Next we need to download our software and rtorrent :

NOTE : U could also get rtorent from svn, but u need the g++ compiler 4.3 or greater for it to "make" correctly. Im not getting into that and im just gonna use rtorrent stable and g++ from yum for now.

• $ mkdir apps && cd apps
• $ svn co https://xmlrpc-c.svn.sourceforge.net...mlrpc-c/stable xmlrpc-c
• $ wget http://ftp.acc.amu.se/pub/GNOME/sources/libsigc++/2.2/libsigc-++2.2.4.tar.gz
• $ wget http://curl.haxx.se/download/curl-7.19.4.tar.gz
• $ wget http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/downlo...-0.12.6.tar.gz
• $ wget http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/downlo...t-0.8.6.tar.gz

PART 3 : Compile what we downloaded :

A : Libsigc++2.2.4

• $ tar zxfv libsigc++-2.2.4.tar.gz
• $ cd libsigc++-2.2.4
• $ ./configure
• $ make
• $ sudo make install
• $ cd ..

B : Curl 7.19.4

• $ tar zxfv curl-7.19.4.tar.gz
• $ cd curl-7.19.4
• $ ./configure
• $ make
• $ sudo make install
• $ cd ..

C : xmlrpc-c

• $ cd xmlrpc-c
• $ ./configure --disable-cplusplus
• $ make
• $ sudo make install
• $ cd ..

NOTE : For libtorrent/rtorernt u need to remove the m4 scripts or u will get errors on both installs.

D : libtorrent

• $ tar zxfv libtorrent-0.12.6.tar.gz
• $ cd libtorrent-0.12.6
• $ rm -f scripts/{libtool,lt*}.m4
• $ ./autogen.sh
• $ ./configure
• $ make
• $ sudo make install
• $ cd ..
  

E : rtorrent

• $ tar zxfv rtorrent-0.8.6.tar.gz
• $ cd rtorrent-0.8.6
• $ rm -f scripts/{libtool,lt*}.m4
• $ ./autogen.sh
• $ ./configure --with-xmlrpc-c
• $ make
• $ sudo make install
• $ cd ..
  
• $ rm *.tar.gz
• $ cd ..
  

PART 4 : Make dir's & rtorrent config file :

A : Now we need to make the dir's rtorrent will use and also give read/write access to them.

• $ mkdir rtorrent && cd rtorrent
• $ mkdir downloads
• $ mkdir torrents
• $ mkdir .session
• $ cd .. && chmod 777 rtorrent -R

B : Next lets make the rtorrent config file. U can copy and paste this file into "nano" (text editor) and save (ctrl + o) & exit (ctrl + x) > pastebin - collaborative debugging tool

• $ nano .rtorrent.rc

NOTE : make sure u change the dir's in the sample config file to your path of the folders u created above.



PART 5 : Start rtorrent in screen

A : Lets go ahead and start rtorrent in screen. Screen will keep rtorrent session alive after u close out your terminal.

• $ screen -S rt rtorrent

NOTE : To detach the rtorrent screen session (ctrl a-d). To re-attach screen session ( $ screen -x rt). To see a list of all current running screen sessions ( $ screen -list)



PART 6 : lighttpd

A : We already installed lighttpd from "PART 1", but now we have to make some important changes. First lets "su" then open the config file:

• $ su

Password:

• # nano /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf

B : Now make the following changes. U need to bind lighttpd on port 81 so look for the following line and un-comment it :

"server.port =81"

C : Now make sure u also un-comment the following in the "server.modules" :

"mod_scgi",
"mod_fastcgi",
"mod_auth",

D : Lighttpd config file on Centos already comes with all the lines we need to add, but u will need to un-comment them all. To make it easier for u, u can just leave them there as is & add this to the very end of file :

PHP Code:

scgi.server = (
"/srv/www/lighttpd/rutorrent/RPC2" => # RT_DIR
 ( "127.0.0.1" =>
  (
   "host" => "127.0.0.1",
   "port" => 5000,
   "check-local" => "disable"
  )
 )
)

fastcgi.server = ( ".php" => ((
       "bin-path" => "/usr/bin/php-cgi",
       "socket" => "/tmp/php.socket"
))) 


E : Start lighttpd :

• # /etc/init.d/lighttpd start

PART 7 : rutorrent :

A : Now we need to download rutorrent with our web-server user to our Document Root dir, so rutorrent is accessible through our web-browser. In my config the webserver user is "www-data", so this is what ill use in the tutorial.

NOTE : The default location for this is "/srv/www/lighttpd", but u may need to double check in the lighttpd.conf just to make sure. Look for this line > "server.document.root = " and that will be the location to where u need to install rutorrent.

B : Switch to web-server user & CD to the document.root dir and download rutorrent :

• # su www-data
• # cd /srv/www/lighttpd
• # wget http://rutorrent.googlecode.com/file...ent-2.8.tar.gz
• # tar xzf rtorrent-2.8.tar.gz
• # rm rtorrent-2.8.tar.gz

C : To install plugins u need to do this :

• # cd /srv/www/lighttpd/rtorrent/plugins/
• # wget http://rutorrent.googlecode.com/files/rpc-1.0.tar.gz
• # tar xzf rpc-1.0.tar.gz
• # rm rpc-1.0.tar.gz

D : Switch back to root & Give read/write to the dir rutorrent :

• # su

password :

• # chmod 777 /srv/www/lighttpd/rtorrent -R

E : Now we need to open the rutorrent config and specify the /RPC2 mount :

• # nano /srv/www/lighttpd/rtorrent/conf/config.php

Then look for "XMLRPCMountPoint" and add this to that line :

• /srv/www/lighttpd/rtorrent/RPC2

NOTE : Make sure when u add that to the line, u put it in between the '-' or it will not take effect and show errors.

Restart Lighttpd :

• # /etc/init.d/lighttpd restart

Now u can reach rutorrent in your web-browser on your home computer. U need to make sure u specify port #81 in the address > hxxp://serverIP:81/rtorrent

**Thats it for compiling rtorrent on Centos. Remember if u have any issues, questions or found some mistakes please post here. this tutorial was soley written by me, but i learned this over time through various help & sources**

This is very helpful. CentOS is never easy to master as you had said. I also believe there are no good tutorial out there that explain the correct steps to install rTorrent + ruTorrent together. This is a good mix, and I must thank you for your guide (I've followed it and it works great)!

A fix for the link, libsigC++,

http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/GNOME/sour...+-2.2.4.tar.gz

Hey, thanks again SeeyaBye. I never even realized the Libsigc link was broken. Thanks and im glad u followed this guide.

I got even after libsigc++ was installed. I found the reason why.

checking for STUFF... configure: error: Package requirements (sigc++-2.0) were not met:

No package 'sigc++-2.0' found

The solution can be found here, CompilationHelp – The libTorrent and rTorrent Project under

LibTorrent not found by ./configure

Hope this helps ;)

Yeah this will happen on some Centos systems and other Distro's as well, but not all. I should still add this just in case for the users it does happen too. At least it never happened to me yet, but i did have to fix users servers that it did happen to recently. Thanks and i will add that later. Good job Seeyabye!

Very nice and well explained. Probably the best rtorrent install guide on a less than intuitive distro I've seen :)

What's the reason for using centos over the standard few *nix's?

Originally Posted by Anon123

Very nice and well explained. Probably the best rtorrent install guide on a less than intuitive distro I've seen :)

What's the reason for using centos over the standard few *nix's?

Thanks for the post. I honestly dont see a major reason in using Centos over others. Imo, the reason is basically that some swear by, love and feel more comfortable using "Red-Hat" and since Centos is based on that, they go the Centos route. There is no clear cut advantage in using it and truthfully its a lot like other distro's, but im a die-hard Debian guy so ill stick to my Debian based.

The thing i hate about Centos is there are few packages and i always find myself compiling rather then using "yum". U could always add more repositories though and sometimes u will find what your looking for. I do like Centos though, but i still think there is no major reason and overall it has to do with the users preferences.

Originally Posted by MikeD

Thanks for the post. I honestly dont see a major reason in using Centos over others. Imo, the reason is basically that some swear by, love and feel more comfortable using "Red-Hat" and since Centos is based on that, they go the Centos route. There is no clear cut advantage in using it and truthfully its a lot like other distro's, but im a die-hard Debian guy so ill stick to my Debian based.

The thing i hate about Centos is there are few packages and i always find myself compiling rather then using "yum". U could always add more repositories though and sometimes u will find what your looking for. I do like Centos though, but i still think there is no major reason and overall it has to do with the users preferences.

Well from my research in hosting websites, I found that many people recommend CentOS, and some even asked why. The answer to this may differ from people to people.

1. The benefits of CentOS is nevertheless Hardware. RHEL are specialise in Enterprise servers, so one of their distro CentOS is well known that it inherits RHEL's for Enterprise Editions. The only difference is that CentOS is free whislt RHEL is paid. Also, they have Fedora, but Fedora is known as Beta Distro because it has consistent new features, but not stable.

2. CentOS is well known because Cpanel recommends it. Most softwares are based on CentOS.

3. CentOS is well understood as LTS. Which simply means, you will seldom get latest updates, but you will be very sure that you get STABLE updates. This greatly helps because if updates were to be released every day, or week, it would be so tedious to keep doing update. That's why you can see that not many would use Ubuntu 9.10 as their recommended server edition. Rather, most would choose Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. Because it's Long Term Support :)

All in all, Ubuntu and CentOS don't have much big difference. In the end, it's still your prefrence. I would use CentOS on a web hosting server. But I would use Ubuntu for the fun of it :D.

ok as i can see there is no location after all in rtorrent for : # nano /srv/www/lighttpd/rtorrent/conf/config.php but i got it on rutorrent so why you used here rtorrent ? and even there is no such option in config.php about "XMLRPCMountPoint" & file of : /srv/www/lighttpd/rtorrent/RPC2 because RPC2 is not in rtorrent... its on rutorrent so i think you have to do some correction on it & do you copied from some where or u just used it ? Can you describe details by correct...