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# RuTorrent

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ruTorrent is a web interface to rTorrent (a console based BitTorrent client). It uses rTorrent's built-in XML-RPC server to communicate with it.

It is lightweight, highly extensible, and is designed to look similar to uTorrent.

## Installation

Install rutorrentAUR from the AUR. If you want to use the development version install rutorrent-gitAUR.

## Web Server Configuration

### Apache

Install and configure Apache with PHP according to the LAMP page.

- Edit the open_basedir value in /etc/php/php.ini to include:

    /etc/webapps/rutorrent/conf/:/usr/share/webapps/rutorrent/php/:/usr/share/webapps/rutorrent/

Install mod_scgiAUR from the AUR.

- Load the SCGI module in `/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf`:

    LoadModule scgi_module modules/mod_scgi.so

- Enable the rTorrent XMLRPC interface: rTorrent#XMLRPC interface

- Enable SCGI on the port you chose for rTorrent by adding this to `/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf`:

    SCGIMount /RPC2 127.0.0.1:5000

- Lastly, add the ruTorrent folder to `/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf` with something similar to this anywhere after the inital </Directory>:

    <IfModule alias_module>
      Alias /rutorrent /usr/share/webapps/rutorrent
      <Directory "/usr/share/webapps/rutorrent">
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
      </Directory>
    </IfModule>

For Apache 2.4 the access control would be:

    <IfModule alias_module>
      Alias /rutorrent /usr/share/webapps/rutorrent
      <Directory "/usr/share/webapps/rutorrent">
        Require all granted
      </Directory>
    </IfModule>

Note: You should enable authentication through Apache if your site is public.

### Nginx

- Create a link from your web root to rutorrent

    ln -s /usr/share/webapps/rutorrent/ /usr/share/nginx/html/rutorrent

- Edit the open_basedir value in /etc/php/php.ini to include:

    /etc/webapps/rutorrent/conf/:/usr/share/webapps/rutorrent/php/:/usr/share/webapps/rutorrent/

- Enable the rTorrent XMLRPC interface: rTorrent#XMLRPC interface

- Add following location to your nginx configuration:

               location /RPC2 {
                   include scgi_params;
                   scgi_pass localhost:5000;
               }

- Restart nginx:

    # systemctl restart nginx

- You can now access ruTorrent at http://127.0.0.1/rutorrent

### Nginx (manual installation)

- Install nginx, php-fpm, rtorrent

- Download and unpack rutorrent:

    tree -L 2 /usr/share/nginx/html/

    /usr/share/nginx/html/
    ├── 50x.html
    ├── index.html
    └── rutorrent
        ├── conf
        ├── css
        ├── images
        ├── index.html
        ├── js
        ├── lang
        ├── LICENSE.md
        ├── php
        ├── plugins
        ├── README.md
        └── share

- Modify premissions:

    sudo chmod 0777 /usr/share/nginx/html/rutorrent/share/{settings,torrents,users}

- Make necessary changes to rtorrent and nginx:

    ~/.rtorrent.rc

    ...
    scgi_port = localhost:5000

    /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

    worker_processes  1;
    events {
        worker_connections  1024;
    }
    http {
        include       mime.types;
        default_type  application/octet-stream;
        sendfile        on;
        keepalive_timeout  65;
        server {
            listen       80;
            server_name  localhost;
            root /usr/share/nginx/html;
            location / {
                index  index.html index.htm;
            }
            location ~ \.php$ {
                fastcgi_pass   unix:/run/php-fpm/php-fpm.sock;
                fastcgi_index  index.php;
                include        fastcgi.conf;
            }
            location /RPC2 {
                include scgi_params;
                scgi_pass localhost:5000;
            }
            error_page   500 502 503 504  /50x.html;
            location = /50x.html {
                root   /usr/share/nginx/html;
            }
        }
    }

Note: open_basedir is unset by default and does not have to be changed.

- Start necessary services:

    sudo systemctl start php-fpm nginx

- Consider using rtorrent with tmux
- Navigate to http://localhost/rutorrent/

## ruTorrent Configuration

See upstream wiki here. By default the configuration files are symlinked to `/etc/webapps/rutorrent/conf`.

## See Also

- LAMP
- RTorrent

## External Links

- https://github.com/Novik/ruTorrent/wiki
- http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/configuring.html

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