How to install and run rTorrent/ruTorrent on a seedbox



Notes

    This guide is going to make a new user named seeder1 and will install everything as if this is going to be your seed account. Feel free to change this name but do make sure you change it EVERYWHERE.
    You can probably do more parts of this guide from the root user saving you the trouble of having to always type "sudo"  infront of the commands however this does allow for the problem that the user running the rtorrent program can't access all other files thus causing trouble with plugins of even the entire program not running. I find it safest to just do it like this.



The guide

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), Ubuntu 11.04 (x86_64) and Ubuntu 12.04 (x64).

To start, access your VPS or dedicated server 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

Next step is to add a user under whose name the entire system is going to run.
adduser seeder1
Answer the questions asked and make sure you remember the password.

Add the user to the list of sudoers (for some basic help with the editor VI look here :http://www.unix-manuals.com/tutorials/vi/vi-in-10-1.html
vi /etc/sudoers
Find the part where it says "root ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL" and add a new line (go to correct line, press the [ i ] key and enter what it says below. Once done press the [ esc ] key
Seeder1 ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
Save the file and exit (in vi you do this by pressing :wq[ enter ])

Close the ssh connection and restart it with the new user you just created. Then continue

Enable scgi for Apache:
sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-scgi
sudo ln -s /etc/apache2/mods-available/scgi.load /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/scgi.load

Install XMLRPC:
sudo mkdir /install;cd /install
sudo svn checkout http://xmlrpc-c.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/xmlrpc-c/stable xmlrpc-c
sudo cd xmlrpc-c
sudo ./configure --disable-cplusplus
sudo make
sudo make install

Intall libtorrent:
cd /install
sudo wget http://vps6.net/src/libtorrent-0.13.0.tar.gz
sudo tar xvf libtorrent-0.13.0.tar.gz
sudo cd libtorrent-0.13.0
sudo ./autogen.sh
sudo ./configure
sudo make
sudo make install

Install rTorrent:
cd /install
sudo wget http://vps6.net/src/rtorrent-0.9.0.tar.gz
sudo cd rtorrent-0.9.0
sudo ./autogen.sh
sudo ./configure --with-xmlrpc-c
sudo make
sudo make install
sudo 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://vps6.net/src/.rtorrent.rc

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

Install rTorrent:
cd /install
sudo wget http://vps6.net/src/rutorrent-3.0.tar.gz
sudo tar xvf rutorrent-3.0.tar.gz
sudo mv rutorrent /var/www
sudo wget http://vps6.net/src/plugins-3.0.tar.gz
sudo tar xvf plugins-3.0.tar.gz
sudo mv plugins /var/www/rutorrent
sudo rm -rf /var/www/rutorrent/plugins/darkpal
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/rutorrent

Secure /rutorrent:
sudo a2enmod ssl
sudo a2enmod auth_digest
sudo a2enmod scgi
sudo openssl req $@ -new -x509 -days 365 -nodes -out /etc/apache2/apache.pem -keyout /etc/apache2/apache.pem
sudo chmod 600 /etc/apache2/apache.pem
sudo 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/
sudo rm -rf default
sudo wget http://vps6.net/src/default
sudo a2ensite default-ssl
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload

Install screen:
sudo 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.

Thanks to DrkNess who originally posted this in the Tutorials Forum

If all that code scares you try the Remote Deluge setup section of the Kimsufi 2G Guide