Help getting this to work

[Red Squirrel]

Hi,

Based on what I see this is exactly what I want. A web based bittorrent client that I can fully manage from a browser, and have running on a VM somewhere.

Unfortunately I can't seem to figure out how to actually get it to work. I'm using CentOS 5.5.

First problem, the link on the site for the CentOS version is dead. I ended up finding it from a 3rd party site. Second problem, there does not seem to be any decent documentation that I can find on setting this up.

So based on my own messing around I've come to figure out that on my distro the config is stored in /var/lib/transmission/.config/transmission-daemon/ (there's also a similar folder in /root but based on the log file it's reading from the var one) and that the name of the service is transmission-daemon and I can start/stop it like any other service. The html client is stored in /usr/share/transmission/web so I pointed apache there, but I get errors that it can't connect even with the daemon running. I was thinking maybe the daemon itself has a http interface and I have to use that but can't http to it at all (stopped apache for the test), I'm thinking maybe the RPC port is for the HTTP so I tried connecting to that, but no such luck. Pretty much guessing at everything and not getting anywhere.

I'm pretty much at a loss now. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

[lazybones]

https://trac.transmissionbt.com/wiki/WebInterface

[Red Squirrel]

I saw that, but that goes under the assumption that it's already been configured and works. I can't connect to it at all. Somewhere, I probably have to edit something, but I have not found much. This is my config file:

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{
    "alt-speed-down": 50,
    "alt-speed-enabled": false,
    "alt-speed-time-begin": 540,
    "alt-speed-time-day": 127,
    "alt-speed-time-enabled": false,
    "alt-speed-time-end": 1020,
    "alt-speed-up": 50,
    "bind-address-ipv4": "10.1.1.22",
    "bind-address-ipv6": "::",
    "blocklist-enabled": true,
    "blocklist-url": "http://www.example.com/blocklist",
    "cache-size-mb": 4,
    "dht-enabled": true,
    "download-dir": "/p2p/torrents",
    "encryption": 1,
    "idle-seeding-limit": 30,
    "idle-seeding-limit-enabled": false,
    "incomplete-dir": "/var/lib/transmission/Downloads/incomplete",
    "incomplete-dir-enabled": true,
    "lazy-bitfield-enabled": true,
    "lpd-enabled": false,
    "message-level": 2,
    "open-file-limit": 32,
    "peer-congestion-algorithm": "",
    "peer-limit-global": 240,
    "peer-limit-per-torrent": 60,
    "peer-port": 51413,
    "peer-port-random-high": 65535,
    "peer-port-random-low": 49152,
    "peer-port-random-on-start": false,
    "peer-socket-tos": "default",
    "pex-enabled": true,
    "port-forwarding-enabled": true,
    "preallocation": 1,
    "prefetch-enabled": 1,
    "ratio-limit": 2,
    "ratio-limit-enabled": false,
    "rename-partial-files": true,
    "rpc-authentication-required": true,
    "rpc-bind-address": "10.1.1.22",
    "rpc-enabled": true,
    "rpc-password": "{0f13200b841a27c261ba00622ebd5181b98abf95n2eppezT",
    "rpc-port": 9091,
    "rpc-url": "/transmission/",
    "rpc-username": "",
    "rpc-whitelist": "*.*.*.*",
    "rpc-whitelist-enabled": true,
    "script-torrent-done-enabled": false,
    "script-torrent-done-filename": "",
    "speed-limit-down": 5000,
    "speed-limit-down-enabled": false,
    "speed-limit-up": 400,
    "speed-limit-up-enabled": true,
    "start-added-torrents": true,
    "trash-original-torrent-files": false,
    "umask": 18,
    "upload-slots-per-torrent": 14
}

[Red Squirrel]

Ok so it seems when I try to change the default port that's when all hell breaks loose. So I'll just stick to the default use Apache to do a redirect later once I get this to work.

Also, it seems when you try to import an invalid torrent it just does nothing. Would be nice if there was some kind of error or something. I thought it still was not working but turns out the torrent I tried was bad.

Think I'm good to go now, thanks.