Transmission

Posted: **Fri Sep 25, 2009 11:43 am**

So... I recently upgraded my headless Ubuntu server to Jaunty and thought that I'd test Transmission and see if Deluge or Transmission is best for me (I'm currently using Deluge). Clutch is a really nice WebUI but unforunatley it doesn't work for me.

I am using Transmission 1.74 from the Ubuntu PPA and I've followed all the guides I can find on how to configure the WebUI on Ubuntu. I am using Apache as a reverse proxy and when I visit my configured URL I get a password prompt, if I enter the username and password set in /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json the WebUI show but I get an error that it couldn't connect to the daemon. When I click details Firefox/IE reports this error "404: Not found/rpc" if I do the samething with Safari I get the following error "401: UnauthorizedUnauthorized User".

Now if I try to connect to the daemon with "transsmission-remote -n username:password" I get a connection to the daemon with issues. Could someone please point me to where it goes wrong?

My /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json:

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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": "0.0.0.0",
    "bind-address-ipv6": "::",
    "blocklist-enabled": false,
    "dht-enabled": true,
    "download-dir": "\/var\/lib\/transmission-daemon\/downloads",
    "download-limit": 100,
    "download-limit-enabled": 0,
    "encryption": 1,
    "lazy-bitfield-enabled": true,
    "max-peers-global": 200,
    "message-level": 2,
    "open-file-limit": 32,
    "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": 0,
    "pex-enabled": true,
    "port-forwarding-enabled": false,
    "preallocation": 1,
    "proxy": "",
    "proxy-auth-enabled": false,
    "proxy-auth-password": "",
    "proxy-auth-username": "",
    "proxy-enabled": false,
    "proxy-port": 80,
    "proxy-type": 0,
    "ratio-limit": 2.0000,
    "ratio-limit-enabled": false,
    "rpc-authentication-required": true,
    "rpc-bind-address": "127.0.0.1",
    "rpc-enabled": true,
    "rpc-password": "mypassword",
    "rpc-port": 9091,
    "rpc-username": "myusername",
    "rpc-whitelist": "*.*.*.*",
    "rpc-whitelist-enabled": true,
    "speed-limit-down": 100,
    "speed-limit-down-enabled": false,
    "speed-limit-up": 100,
    "speed-limit-up-enabled": false,
    "umask": 18,
    "upload-limit": 100,
    "upload-limit-enabled": 0,
    "upload-slots-per-torrent": 14
}

My apache-confign for reverse proxy:

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    # Redirect requests to /transmission to /transmission/web
    RewriteRule /transmission[/]?$ /transmission/web [R=permanent]

    # Forward all requests for /transmission to transmission-daemon
    ProxyPass /transmission/ http://127.0.0.1:9091/
    ProxyPassReverse /transmission/ http://127.0.0.1:9091/

   <Location /transmission>

       # !!! ONLY NEEDED FOR 1.5x AND EARLIER !!!
       # Work-around for libT's non-conformance to the HTTP/1.1 standard for Redirect
       # See http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.30"
       # and http://trac.transmissionbt.com/ticket/1944
       #   Work-around no longer needed (see RewriteRule above)
       #   ProxyPassReverse http://127.0.0.1:9091/transmission

       # Digest Auth enable
       # See http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/howto/auth.html#gettingitworking
       Order Allow,Deny
       Allow from All
       #AuthType Digest
       #AuthName "Transmission Web Interface"
       #AuthDigestProvider file
       #AuthUserFile "/usr/local/etc/apache22/htdigest.user"
       #Require valid-user

       # Make pictures, scripts and styling client-cacheable
       <IfModule expires_module>
           ExpiresActive On
           ExpiresByType image/gif A43200
           ExpiresByType image/png A43200
           ExpiresByType application/javascript A43200
           ExpiresByType text/css A43200
       </IfModule>

   </Location>

Transmission

440: Not found/rpc | 401: UnauthorizedUser

440: Not found/rpc | 401: UnauthorizedUser