This tutorial will guide you to install and run Transmission for multiple users on Ubuntu 12.04 “Precise Pangolin” and Ubuntu 11.10 “Oneiric Ocelot”.

1. SSH into your box

• # sudo apt-get transmission-daemon

2. Run & Configure Transmission

# transmission-daemon

Now you will notice a “transmission-daemon” folder has been created in your /home/user/.config. Kill transmission-daemon so that you can edit the conf file in .config/transmission-daemon.

• nano settings.json

This is what you will see. I have highlighted what you should change in bold:

{
“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,
“blocklist-url”: “http://www.example.com/blocklist”,
“cache-size-mb”: 4,
“dht-enabled”: false,
“download-dir”: “/home/username/torrents/files”,
“download-queue-enabled”: true,
“download-queue-size”: 5,
“encryption”: 1,
“idle-seeding-limit”: 30,
“idle-seeding-limit-enabled”: false,
“incomplete-dir”: “/home/username/torrents/files”,
“incomplete-dir-enabled”: false,
“lpd-enabled”: false,
“message-level”: 2,
“peer-congestion-algorithm”: “”,
“peer-limit-global”: 250,
“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”: false,
“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”: true,
“rpc-bind-address”: “0.0.0.0″,
“rpc-enabled”: true,
“rpc-password”: “this-is-my-password”,
“rpc-port”: 9095,
“rpc-url”: “/transmission/”,
“rpc-username”: “test”,
“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,
“watch-dir”: “/home/username/torrents/watch”,
“watch-dir-enabled”: true
}

Explanation

“dht-enabled”: false, < As with all private trackers, this should be turned off.

“pex-enabled”: false, < See above.

“rpc-authentication-required”: true, < Enable password authentication for multiple users.

“rpc-password”: “this-is-my-password”, < Set a password.

“rpc-username”: “test”, < Replace “test” with a username.

“rpc-whitelist”: “*.*.*.*”, < Must follow exactly. Listens to all IPs.

“watch-dir”: “/home/username/torrents/watch”, < Sets a watch folder. Dump your .torrents in there and it will auto add into Transmission.

“watch-dir-enabled”: true < notice there is no comma after “true”. The last option has no comma, all other options have comma.

For each account you want to create, start from instruction number 2 above.

This tutorial will guide you through the setup of a fully-featured seedbox running on a Debian or Ubuntu system, including:

libtorrent 0.13.0
rTorrent 0.9
ruTorrent Web UI (3.0)
This guide has been tested with Debian 6 (x86_64) and Ubuntu 11.04 (x86_64).

To start, access your VPS via SSH (as the root user) and do the following to update your platform and install some required dependencies:

# apt-get update
# apt-get install subversion build-essential automake libtool libcppunit-dev libcurl3-dev libsigc++-2.0-dev unzip unrar-free curl libncurses-dev
# apt-get install apache2 php5 php5-cli php5-curl

Enable scgi for Apache:

# apt-get install libapache2-mod-scgi
# ln -s /etc/apache2/mods-available/scgi.load /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/scgi.load

Install XMLRPC:

# mkdir /install;cd /install
# svn checkout http://xmlrpc-c.svn.sourceforge.net/…mlrpc-c/stable xmlrpc-c
# cd xmlrpc-c
# ./configure –disable-cplusplus
# make
# make install

Intall libtorrent:

# cd /install
# wget http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/downloads/libtorrent-0.13.2.tar.gz
# tar xvf libtorrent-0.13.0.tar.gz
# cd libtorrent-0.13.0
# ./autogen.sh
# ./configure
# make
# make install

Install rTorrent:

# cd /install
# wget http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/downloads/rtorrent-0.9.2.tar.gz
# cd rtorrent-0.9.0
# ./autogen.sh
# ./configure –with-xmlrpc-c
# make
# make install
# ldconfig

Create required directories:

# mkdir /home/seeder1/rtorrent
# mkdir /home/seeder1/rtorrent/.session
# mkdir /home/seeder1/rtorrent/watch
# mkdir /home/seeder1/rtorrent/download

Setup .rtorrent.rc file (rTorrent config):

# cd ~/
# wget http://kimsufi.fawked.net/speedtest/.rtorrent.rc
# cp .rtorrent.rc /home/seeder1/

(Edit the settings in .rtorrent.rc, like max upload/download speed, max connected peers, etc, as needed.)

Install ruTorrent:

# cd /var/www
# svn co http://rutorrent.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/rutorrent
# cd /var/www/rutorrent/plugins
# svn co http://rutorrent.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/plugins/rpc
# chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/rutorrent

(to upgrade or if any plugins break in the future, do the below)
# cd /var/www/rutorrent
# svn up
# cd /var/www/rutorrent/plugins
# svn up
(/to upgrade or if any plugins break in the future, do the below)

Secure /rutorrent:

# a2enmod ssl
# a2enmod auth_digest
# a2enmod scgi
# openssl req $@ -new -x509 -days 365 -nodes -out /etc/apache2/apache.pem -keyout /etc/apache2/apache.pem
# chmod 600 /etc/apache2/apache.pem
# htdigest -c /etc/apache2/passwords seedbox seeder1

(Enter a password of your choice when prompted, you will use this to log in to the ruTorrent web UI.)

# cd /etc/apache2/sites-available/
# rm -rf default
# wget http://kimsufi.fawked.net/speedtest/default
# a2ensite default-ssl
# /etc/init.d/apache2 reload

Install screen:

# apt-get install screen

Start rTorrent in a detached shell using screen:

# screen -fa -d -m rtorrent

(To start rtorrent automatically when the VPS is booted, add the above command to /etc/rc.local)

You can now access ruTorrent at http://xx.xx.xx.xx/rutorrent/ (replace xx.xx with your server’s IP address). You should be greeted with a login prompt, where the username is “seeder1″ and the password is the one you set above in the “secure /rutorrent” section.

The only difference in the server’s location are the transfer speeds that you will receive when downloading your data from the server; there is not any difference in security.

Your transfer speeds from the server are determined not just by the plan you have with your ISP, but also by your peering to the server.

The locations that each plan is available in will be discussed below, as well as links to some test files that you can download to see which you receive a faster speed from (make sure to download the files one at a time, and not all at once).

These test files are hosted by the datacenter at which the server would be located at, and while typically providing a very good idea of the speeds that you would receive when downloading your data from the server, the test files are on a different network than the servers themselves, and in very rare cases you may have different peering to them.