Torrentflux is the best software program to turn a ancient server you have laying around into a torrent server. Torrentflux-b4rt is like other file sharing programs you may have used in the past, but this program is meant for linux and can be accessed using a ip address.
Since Torrentflux-b4rt runs in a web browser, the best thing about Torrentflux is that it can be accessed from other computers on your lan and while you are on the road away from home. The following directions will show you how to install torrentflux on Ubuntu 8.10, but can be used for other linux distributions with minor changes. The first thing that you are going to want to do is login under su.
su
After you log in under su, you now are going to have to install a basic lamp system on your linux server. A lamp system consists of apache and mysql, which will allow you to access your torrentflux from a web browser.
apt-get install bzip2 mysql-server libapache2-mod-php5 php5-mysql apache2
After you have installed the lamp system, we can begin to download and extract the torrentflux-b4rt program.
cd /var/www
wget http://gunblade.fakap.net/doc/torrentflux-b4rt-b4rt_1.0-beta2.tar.bz2
tar -xjvf torrentflux-b4rt_1.0-beta2.tar.bz2
This command will change the torrentflux-b4rt directory into a easier one to remember.
mv torrentflux-b4rt_1.0-beta2 torrentflux
We also need to install a few more programs.
apt-get install zip unzip unrar php5-cli php5-gd phpmyadmin transmission-cli libdigest-sha1-perl libxml-dom-perl libxml-simple-perl libthreads-shared-perl libhtml-parser-perl
After you have installed the above packages, point Internet Explorer web browser towards http://IP/torrentflux/html/setup.php to begin the installation process of torrentflux-b4rt.
Once the torrentflux-b4rt install window opens, you will then need to select MySQL for your database type, then point another browser window towards http://IP/phpmyadmin and login under root using your mysql password you set earlier, so that you can create a new user for your torrentflux account. After phpmyadmin opens up, you will need to click on priviledges, and then on add a new user.
All you have to do now fill in the input boxes on the top of the screen and hit the check all button under global priviledges. Make sure you memorize the username and password, since this will be your login information for torrentflux-b4rt. After yoou have filled in the above forms, click on the go button. You have now created yourself a user name and password for your torrentflux-b4rt account.
Once you have created yourself a username, go back to the http://IP/torrentflux-b4rt/html/setup.php page and fill in the information for your MySQL database. All you have to do to is fill in the forms, with the log in information you created on the http://IP/phpmyadmin page.
After you have created the new database, you now need to set the privileges to 777. There are a few ways to set the priviledges on these files. One way is to use webmin, which is displayed below. Or you can also chmod the files under the command window.
chmod 777 /var/www/torrentflux/html/inc/config/
chmod-777-torrentflux
After you have completed the install you will notice there are a few packages that are not installed, but your torrentflux file sharing server will work alright without the other programs.
The last thing that you have to do in order to access your torrentflux-b4rt account is to remove /var/www/torrentflux-b4rt/html/setup.php.
rm /var/www/torrentflux/html/setup.php
