Torrentflux-b4rt the best software program to turn a old server you have laying around into a torrent server. Torrentflux-b4rt is like other torrent programs you may have used in the past, but this program is meant for linux and can be accessed using a web gui.
Since torrentflux-b4rt runs as a web gui, the greatest thing about torrentflux is that it can be accessed from other computers on your local area network and while you are on the road away from home. The following directions will show you how to install torrentflux-b4rt on Ubuntu 8.10, but can be used for other linux distros with minor changes. The first thing that you are going to want to do is login under su.
su
After you log in under su, you now are going to have to install a basic lamp system on your linux pc. A lamp system consists of apache and mysql, which will allow you to access your torrentflux-b4rt from a web page.
apt-get install bzip2 mysql-server libapache2-mod-php5 php5-mysql apache2
After you have installed the lamp system, we can begin to download and extract the torrentflux-b4rt torrent server.
cd /var/www
wget http://gunblade.fakap.net/doc/torrentflux-b4rt_1.0-beta2.tar.bz2
tar -xjvf torrentflux-b4rt_1.0-beta2.tar.bz2
This command will change the torrentflux-b4rt directory into a easier one to remember.
mv torrentflux-b4rt_1.0-beta2 torrentflux
We also need to install a few more packages.
apt-get install libxml-dom-perl libxml-simple-perl libthreads-shared-perl libhtml-parser-perl transmission-cli libdigest-sha1-perl bittornado php5-cli php5-gd phpmyadmin zip unzip unrar
Next after you have installed the above software, point Firefox towards http://IP/torrentflux/html/setup.php to begin the installation process of torrentflux-b4rt.
Once the torrentflux-br4t install window opens, you will then need to select MySQL for your database type, then point another browser window towards http://IP/phpmyadmin and login under root using your mysql password you set earlier, so that you can create a new user for your torrentflux account. Once phpmyadmin opens up, you will need to click on priviledges. After you click on priviledges, you will then need to select add a new user.
All you have to do is fill in the input boxes on the top of the screen and hit the check all button under global priviledges. Make sure you remember the username and password, since this will be your login information for torrentflux-b4rt. After yoou have filled in the above forms, click on the go button. You have now created yourself a user name and password for your torrentflux-b4rt account.
Once you have created yourself a username, go back to the http://IP/torrentflux/html/setup.php page and fill in the information for your MySQL database. All you have to do to is fill in the forms, with the user account information you created on the http://IP/phpmyadmin page.
After you have created the torrentflux-br4t database, you now need to set the privileges to 777. There are a few ways to chmod these files. One way is to use webmin, which is displayed below. Or you can also chmod the files under the command window.
chmod 777 /var/www/torrentflux/html/inc/config/
chmod-777-torrentflux
After you have completed the install you will notice there are a few packages that are not installed, but you torrentflux-b4rt filesharing server will work perfectly fine without the other packages.
The last thing that you must do in order to access your torrentflux-b4rt account is to delete /var/www/torrentflux/html/setup.php.
rm /var/www/torrentflux/html/setup.php
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