Transmission

Posted: **Thu Apr 05, 2012 5:39 am**

Hi All,

I've been struggling for a while to get Transmission up and running on my system the way I want and I believe I am nearly there. I decided that I wanted to use Apache to proxy over the to Transmission WebUI for a couple reasons:
1. Can use a central place for authentication (via Apache)
2. Can use https and SSL if apache is handling the connection

The way I access transmission is by going to "https://transmission.internal.XYZ.com"

When I do that things seem to work correctly in that I can see the web interface, but I get an immediate "Connection Failed: Could not connect to the server. You may need to reload the page to reconnect" error.

I ran "ps aux" on my system and "service transmission-daemon status", and everything seems to indicate that transmission is indeed running. I also checked the transmission.log file and didn't see any errors.

I was wondering if anyone had any idea what might be going, any help would be greatly appreciated. This is a persistent problem, not just an initial error. Because of this, I am basically unable to use Transmission via the WebUI.

I'll go ahead and give you the details of my system to see if anything jumps out:
OS: Centos 6.2 x64
Apache version: 2.2.15
Transmission version: 2.5.0
Below are my settings.json, and relevant parts of my httpd.conf and ssl.conf files

Here is my settings.json 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": "127.0.0.1",
    "bind-address-ipv6": "::",
    "blocklist-enabled": true,
    "blocklist-url": "http://www.example.com/blocklist",
    "cache-size-mb": 4,
    "dht-enabled": true,
    "download-dir": "/mnt/downloads/COMPLETE/unsorted",
    "download-queue-enabled": true,
    "download-queue-size": 5,
    "encryption": 0,
    "idle-seeding-limit": 30,
    "idle-seeding-limit-enabled": false,
    "incomplete-dir": "/mnt/downloads/torrent/incomplete",
    "incomplete-dir-enabled": false,
    "lpd-enabled": false,
    "message-level": 2,
    "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,
    "queue-stalled-enabled": true,
    "queue-stalled-minutes": 30,
    "ratio-limit": 2,
    "ratio-limit-enabled": false,
    "rename-partial-files": true,
    "rpc-authentication-required": false,
    "rpc-bind-address": "127.0.0.1",
    "rpc-enabled": true,
    "rpc-password": "{1ccecc384ddc9e2da8e01ff18849230288aae366Hkk9zYh6",
    "rpc-port": 9091,
    "rpc-url": "/transmission/",
    "rpc-username": "",
    "rpc-whitelist": "*.*.*.*",
    "rpc-whitelist-enabled": true,
    "scrape-paused-torrents-enabled": true,
    "script-torrent-done-enabled": false,
    "script-torrent-done-filename": "",
    "seed-queue-enabled": false,
    "seed-queue-size": 10,
    "speed-limit-down": 100,
    "speed-limit-down-enabled": false,
    "speed-limit-up": 100,
    "speed-limit-up-enabled": false,
    "start-added-torrents": true,
    "trash-original-torrent-files": false,
    "umask": 18,
    "upload-slots-per-torrent": 14,
    "utp-enabled": true
}

Here is the relevant parts of my apache configuration:

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<VirtualHost *:80>
   ServerName transmission.internal.XYZ.com
   ServerAlias http://transmission.XYZ.nterupt.com
   Redirect permanent / https://transmission.internal.XYZ.com/
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:443>
    ServerName transmission.internal.XYZ.com
    ServerAlias https://transmission.internal.XYZ.com
    <Proxy *>
        Order deny,allow
        Allow from all
    </Proxy>

    SSLEngine On
    SSLProxyEngine On
    SSLCertificateFile /etc/pki/tls/certs/localhost.crt
    SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/pki/tls/private/localhost.key

    ProxyRequests Off
    ProxyPreserveHost On
    ProxyPass / http://localhost:9091/transmission/web/
    ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:9091/transmission/web/

    <Location />
        Order deny,allow
        Allow from all
   </Location>
</VirtualHost>

Just in case you think this is a firewall issue here are my firewall rules:

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 iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 22 -j ACCEPT
 iptables -P INPUT DROP
 iptables -P FORWARD DROP
 iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT
 iptables -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT
 iptables -A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
 iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 443 -j ACCEPT
 iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT

Posted: **Fri Apr 06, 2012 10:14 pm**

No, unfortunately, reloading the page does not seem to fix the problem.

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