Set and create the dir we will use for svn checkouts
svnpath="/svn/"
sudo mkdir $svnpath
sudo chown -R $USER:$USER $svnpath
Install everything you will need and remove xmlrpc or else rtorrent will complain because it uses the one from the repos
sudo apt-get remove libxmlrpc-c*
sudo apt-get install subversion gcc apache2 curl libcurl4-openssl-dev automake autoconf texinfo libapache2-mod-scgi build-essential libtool openssl libsigc++-2.0-dev libncurses-dev libcppunit-dev php5 php5-cli screen
Configure, make and make install xmlrpc-c
cd "$svnpath"
svn co http://xmlrpc-c.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/xmlrpc-c/advanced xmlrpc-c
cd xmlrpc-c
./configure
make
sudo make install
Configure, make and make install libtorrent and rtorrent
cd "$svnpath"
svn co svn://rakshasa.no/libtorrent/trunk rtorrent
cd rtorrent
cd libtorrent
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig
cd ../rtorrent
./autogen.sh
./configure --with-xmlrpc-c
make
sudo make install
Install libxmlrpc-c3-dev
sudo apt-get install libxmlrpc-c3-dev
Get the latest rutorrent
cd $svnpath
svn co rutorrent
To enabel scgi in apache run
sudo a2enmod scgi
To add a scgi mount in apache edit /etc/apache2/httpd.conf
sudo nano /etc/apache2/httpd.conf
and add
SCGIMount /RPC2 127.0.0.1:5000
Then restart apache
sudo service apache2 restart
We also have to add the mount to your rtorrent conf file
In your ~/.rtorrent.rc file
nano ~/.rtorrent.rc
add
scgi_port = localhost:5000
Create a symbolic link to rutorrent in /var/www/
sudo ln -s $svnpath/rutorrent /var/www/
Change ownership of rutorrent/share/torrents/ and rutorrent/share/settings to the one who runs the apache2 server
Set www-data as group of rutorrent/share/torrents/ and rutorrent/share/settings/
sudo chown -R $USER:www-data $svnpath/rutorrent/share/torrents/ $svnpath/rutorrent/share/settings/
And allow the group (www-data) to edit those dirs
chmod g+w $svnpath/rutorrent/share/torrents/ $svnpath/rutorrent/share/settings/
Test
You can test rtorrent and rutorrent by running
cd /tmp/
rtorrent
To download lucid server iso to /tmp
Then check so rutorrent is working by going to
http://server/rutorrent/
ex.
It should not be any errors.
And that is all.
Running in bagground mode
You can get rtorrent to run in bagground mode, by having installed screen, it’s possible to start rtorrent (meaning it’s not running at this point, else this won’t work if rtorrent is already running!) with the command
screen rtorrent
and then detach the rtorrent interface in the terminal/ssh remote window by pressing
shift + a + d
and then close the terminal/ssh remote session window, and rtorrent will continue to run in the bagground…
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