Recommend web based Bittorrent client?

Red Squirrel · 07-03-2011, 12:15 AM

I think I recall someone posting this before but I just can't recall the name.

What I'm looking for is a bittorrent client that acts as a server and has a web client to interface to it. I can upload a .torrent file and manage all the downloads via web. When I close the web everything is happening in the background. Basically I want to run it in a headless VM.

I tried Deluge but it just conks out with an ASP like error right away, I want something that actually works.

scheidel21 · 07-03-2011, 04:08 AM

TorrentFlux?

dudeman41465 · 07-03-2011, 05:03 AM

Transmission has a web interface that you can access from remote machines. You can even upload torrent files to the remove Transmission server and have it download them.

Red Squirrel · 07-03-2011, 08:55 PM

Transmission seems like a dead project, I just get a http error when I go to download it. Trying torrentflux now, but even it seems like a dead project. It was last updated in 2008. The search feature in it does not work. Testing out the actual download capabilities to see if it works, that's the part that's important.

Red Squirrel · 07-03-2011, 09:20 PM

Ok so Torrent flux is out. Torrents just randomly fail with no explaination.

I think I'll just go back to Windows and uTorrent... I was hoping there was better selection of actual working torrent apps in Linux.

craigevil · 07-04-2011, 12:05 AM

List of BitTorrent clients Available in Ubuntu Linux*|*Ubuntu Geek - http://www.ubuntugeek.com/list-of-bi...in-ubuntu.html

Only a dozen or so clients to choose from, probably several others not listed.

dudeman41465 · 07-04-2011, 02:29 AM

Transmission looks very much alive to me, and I use it on my Debian machines. Release notes for the latest version were written on June 28th this year. What OS are you using?

Website: http://www.transmissionbt.com

Red Squirrel · 07-04-2011, 12:08 PM

Managed to find a 3rd party download for transmission, so I got that. I almost got it working, I'll keep working at it this week. It's weird since the config file is in a really messed up location, all the docs say /etc/transmission-daemon and for me it's in /var/log/transmission-daemon/.config or something like that. Not sure why things are never consistent from distro to distro.

Anyone know off hand how I setup the http client? Do I need to point apache to the html folder, or should it have it's own http server?

Using CentOs 5.5

dudeman41465 · 07-05-2011, 05:34 AM

In my experience (Using whatever version of Transmission comes in the Debian repos), you use the GUI on the server end and just click a checkbox in the "Preferences" under the "Web" tab. I think it's named "Enable Web Client", you select a port number, username and password and you're off.