How to set up a BitTorrent tracker on Linux Here are the steps I took to install a BitTorrent tracker on a headless redhat Linux server:
1. Go to the BitTorrent homepage. Then go to the 'Click here for source and older versions' link below the obvious download links. On the sourceforge download page grab the .tar.gz archive of the most recent release.
2. Upload this archive to your Linux server and expand it somewhere. You can unpack the archive with the command: tar -xzf BitTorrent-4.1.0.tar.gz (adjust the filename if needed).
3. cd into the directory you just unpacked. Run this command to start the bt tracker in the background: python bttrack.py --port 6969 --dfile dstate --logfile tracker.log &
To get an explanation of all the command line options available execute python bttrack.py without any options.
4. If you have a firewall installed (and you should) then make sure it allows inbound connections on the port you started the bt tracker on.
Ta-da! You should now see some messages if you point your web browser to the bittorrent port on your server (e.g. http://yourdomain.com:6969) and your announce URL will be something like http://yourdomain.com:6969/announce
Thanks to Dessent.net's btfaq for bringing some clarity to the tangleweed that is the internet.
10 comments | Are you using Fedora Core? At my new job, I've had to learn all about it. :/ I find I like the command line less than I used to. | | |
Fedora Core? Ha!
I'm on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. It's served me nicely so far. | | |
| The command line is a beautiful thing... I'm using IRIX at work and Mandrake at home. My only complaint about IRIX is that the GUI is pretty bare bones, and it makes otherwise simple operations more arduous when you need to do them from the command line. On the plus side I've been able to hand huge amounts of my workload over to a few scripts. which shell do you guys work in? | | |
Hehe, IRIX, that's awesome.
I use bash as my shell since it's the Linux standard, and so there's tons of info and support for it out and about. I agree that shells scripts are a thing of beauty. I've also been playing around with the command line version of php as a scripting language, and I use apache ant for all my software building needs. | | |
| I've spent a bunch of time getting to know csh at work, and bash is quite a bit different, I guess it'll come with time. | | |
I used tcsh for a while and there was a hiccup when I switched, but it's all worked out nicely now.
I just saw a page with some bash tips, so I post it here:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/6915 | | |
To download a torrent with the client:
% wget http://download.bittorrent.com/dl/BitTorrent-4.0.2.tar.gz
% Untar, cd BitTorrent directory
% ./bittorrent-console.py --url torrenturl --save_as myfile.ext
You can use a later version of BT, but the BT sources eventually require Twisted, which is an extra dependency that I wanted to avoid. | | |
| Sorry that last command was supposed to be btdownloadheadless.py. If you have lots of servers, you can start them all downloading a torrent and perhaps make the download go faster. | | |
| thanks, i owe you :). Very clear explanation, keep up the good work mate. | | |
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