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Installation guide

Table of Contents

Prerequisites

  • rTorrent 0.8.0
    • compiled with "--with-xmlrpc-c"
    • sigc++-2.0
  • XMLRPC-C >= 1.07
  • some webserver
    • php5, with the following extensions:
      • xml
      • xsl (libxslt1.1)
      • xmlrpc

Installation

rTorrent side

Preparing the system

You'll need the following packages to install xmlrpc-c, libtorrent and rtorrent

  • make
  • pkg-config
  • sigc++-2.0-dev
  • libncurses-dev
  • libcurl-openssl-dev

Installing XMLRPC-C

To install xmlrpc, get the source from ​The XMLRPC-C page In my case, i could only compile the 1.11.00 version (due to a known bug, you may try to configure with --disable-cplusplus, if the compiling stops with some syntax error) Of course, you can try any version, over 1.07 (or any version over 1.00, but you'll get incorrect data for values bigger than 231-1, since it does not support 64bit integers)

Follow the next steps: 

cd /usr/src
wget http://dfn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/xmlrpc-c/xmlrpc-c-1.11.00.tgz
tar xvf xmlrpc-c-1.11.00.tgz
cd xmlrpc-c-1.11.00
./configure
make
make install

Installing libTorrent

To install libtorrent, follow the next steps: 

mkdir /usr/src/libtorrent
wget http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/downloads/libtorrent-0.12.0.tar.gz
tar xvf libtorrent-0.12.0.tar.gz
cd /usr/src/libtorrent-0.12.0
./configure
make
make install

Installing rTorrent

To install rtorrent, follow the next steps: 

mkdir /usr/src/rtorrent
wget http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/downloads/rtorrent-0.8.0.tar.gz
tar xvf rtorrent-0.8.0.tar.gz
cd /usr/src/rtorrent-0.8.0
./configure --with-xmlrpc-c
make
make install

Setting up rTorrent

If you don't have a .rtorrent.rc file, create one into your home directory. You can find an example ​.rtorrent.rc file. Open .rtorrent.rc, and edit it (for each user):

  • add this line to your .rtorrent.rc "scgi_port = 127.0.0.1:12345" where 12345 can be replaced by any port of your choice
  • and restart rtorrent
  • if you have more than one user, set a different port for each user's .rtorrent.rc file (be aware, to set different session directories for the users)
  • set your download directory
  • make sure, you have your session directory set and it exists, so rtorrent will remember your torrents after it's restarted

Now, you can start rtorrent. On the bottom, you should see something like this: 

(20:55:52) XMLRPC initialized with 356 functions.

rTWi side

Installing and setting up rTWi

If everything went fine, extract the rtwi-xxxxxx.tar.gz to some place where your webserver can see it. In case it's your first install, open the freshly extracted includes/config.php.inc, and edit the next lines:

  • set the $url["base"] variable to your rTWi installation's URL (without index file, and with a trailing slash, so something like http://mysite.com/rtwi/)
  • if your php interpreter does not handle .html files (only .php) set the $url["index"] variable to "index.php", and rename the index.html to index.php

Adding users

  • find row 32, and change it:
  • uncomment the line (delete the slashes from the beginning of the line)
  • replace "username" with the actual linux username
  • replace "1234567890abcdef1234567890abcdef12345678" with the users' sha1 hash of the choosen password for the webui (you can generate the sha1 hash ​online)
  • replace "12345", with the port, you've set in the user's .rtorrent.rc file
  • keep the quotes in the last three steps
  • if you have more than one user, you have to repeat these steps for each one of them, so you'll get something like this: 
    $users = array(
	"user1"		=> array( "pass" => "1234567890abcdef1234567890abcdef12345678", "port"	=> "12345" ),
	"user2"		=> array( "pass" => "1234567890abcdef1234567890abcdef12345678", "port"	=> "12346" ),
	"user3"		=> array( "pass" => "1234567890abcdef1234567890abcdef12345678", "port"	=> "12347" ),
);

GeoIP support

You need to install the GeoIP c library (​http://www.maxmind.com/app/c), and the GeoIP PECL module (​http://pecl.php.net/package/geoip) 

apt-get install libgeoip-dev
apt-get install php-pear php5-dev
pecl install geoip

After you finished, you might want to add "extension=geoip.so" to php.ini

Troubleshooting

XMLRPC-C 1.11 compilation stops with some syntax error

rTorrent compilation stops with an errer, which says, i have no libtorrent installed (No package 'libtorrent' found), but i'm sure, i do

  • Find your libtorrent.pc file (try /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig), and set the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environmental variable to it's path (export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig)

rTorrent compilation stops with an error, which says, my libTorrent's version is an empty string (Requested 'libtorrent >= 0.11.8' but version of libtorrent is )

  • Upgrade you automake (you need 1.5 at least)

I can see the php code in the browser

  • Your php settings does not allows you to to have a php file named .html - change these settings, or rename the index.html to index.php, and set the $default_ext variable to "php" in rtwi's /includes/config.inc.php
  • Php modul is not loaded by the webserver, take a look at your webserver's manual, to find out, how to enable it

I get some php errors about XSL, or XSLT...

  • Install (or if it's installed, than enable) the xsl php extension

I get some php errors about XMLRPC-C...

  • Install (or if it's installed, than enable) the xmlrpc php extension

I've set my username and my password in the config.inc.php, but i cannot log in

  • Did you use the password? You should use the sha1 hash of the password (you can generate the sha1 hash ​online)
  • Enable cookies (or at least session cookies)

I get the "No connection" message in rTWi

  • Set the same port in your .rtorrent.rc file, at the scgi_port=, and in the rTWi's /includes/config.inc.php at your user's line
  • Check, if rTottent is listening on the port, you've set (netstat -na | grep 12345)
    • It is
      • Check your firewall
      • Recheck the port set in rtwi's incudes/config.inc.php
    • It is not
      • Recheck your .rtorrent.rc - it should have a line like this: scgi_port = 127.0.0.1:12345
      • Try to set the scgi port in runtime (Ctrl+X, then entre "scgi_port = 127.0.0.1:12345")
      • If rtorrent stops with an error, that says xmlrpc is not supported, configure xmlrpc-c with --with-xmlrpc-c, and recompile
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