Installing ruTorrent to web server

Connect to the Server

ssh root@SERVER_IP_ADDRESS
adduser USER_NAME
gpasswd -a USER_NAME sudo

Disable root login
Use nano to change PermitRootLogin to no. Ctrl+O to save and Ctrl+X to quit afterward.

nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config
service ssh restart

Setup key authentication

It’s better, less hassle and a lot safer. You should use it.

# at your local machine: gen key and upload it to your vps
ssh-keygen -t rsa
cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh USER_NAME@YOUR_SERVER_IP_ADDRESS 'cat >> .ssh/authorized_keys'

Setup rtorrent

# install libraries required to build rtorrent
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install subversion build-essential automake libtool libcppunit-dev libcurl3-dev libsigc++-2.0-dev unzip unrar-free curl libncurses-dev libxml2-dev

# download source and install
cd ~
mkdir src
cd src
svn checkout https://svn.code.sf.net/p/xmlrpc-c/code/super_stable xmlrpc
cd xmlrpc
./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-libxml2-backend --disable-libwww-client --disable-wininet-client --disable-abyss-server --disable-cgi-server --disable-cplusplus
make
sudo make install

Install libtorrent

cd ~
wget http://rtorrent.net/downloads/libtorrent-0.13.4.tar.gz
tar xvf libtorrent-0.13.4.tar.gz
cd libtorrent-0.13.4
./autogen.sh
sudo apt-get install libssl-dev
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install

Install rtorrent

cd ~ # back to home
wget http://rtorrent.net/downloads/rtorrent-0.9.4.tar.gz
tar xvf rtorrent-0.9.4.tar.gz
cd rtorrent-0.9.4
./autogen.sh
./configure --prefix=/usr --with-xmlrpc-c
make
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig

Create new user to run rtorrent and required folders

useradd -d /home/shah/ shah
mkdir /home/shah
mkdir /home/shah/downloads
mkdir /home/shah//downloads/watch
mkdir /home/shah//downloads/completed
mkdir /home/shah/.session
mkdir /home/shah/watch
mkdir /home/shah/.sockets
touch /home/shah/.sockets/rpc-socket
nano /home/shah/.rtorrent.rc
# update permission
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /usr/share/nginx/html
or
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html

For rtorrent config, you can copy the default one and mess around. It’s simple and straight forward. I won’t go into details here.

cp /usr/share/doc/rtorrent/rtorrent.rc ~/.rtorrent.rc

or use this .rtorrent.rc

# enable/modify the options as needed. Remember to
# uncomment the options you wish to enable.
scgi_port = 127.0.0.1:5000
# Maximum and minimum number of peers to connect to per torrent.
#
#throttle.min_peers.normal.set = 40
#throttle.max_peers.normal.set = 100
# Same as above but for seeding completed torrents (-1 = same as downloading)
#throttle.min_peers.seed.set = 10
#throttle.max_peers.seed.set = 50
# Maximum number of simultanious uploads per torrent.
#
#throttle.max_uploads.set = 15
# Global upload and download rate in KiB. "0" for unlimited.
#
#throttle.global_down.max_rate.set_kb = 0
#throttle.global_up.max_rate.set_kb = 0
# Default directory to save the downloaded torrents.
#
directory.default.set = ~/downloads/completed
# Default session directory. Make sure you don't run multiple instance
# of rtorrent using the same session directory. Perhaps using a
# relative path?
#
session.path.set = ~/.session
# Watch a directory for new torrents, and stop those that have been
# deleted.
#
schedule2 = watch_directory,5,5,load.start=~/downloads/watch/*.torrent
#schedule2 = untied_directory,5,5,stop_untied=
# Close torrents when diskspace is low.
#
schedule2 = low_diskspace,5,60,close_low_diskspace=100M
# The ip address reported to the tracker.
#
#network.local_address.set = 127.0.0.1
#network.local_address.set = rakshasa.no
# The ip address the listening socket and outgoing connections is
# bound to.
#
#network.bind_address.set = 127.0.0.1
#network.bind_address.set = rakshasa.no
# Port range to use for listening.
#
#network.port_range.set = 6890-6999
# Start opening ports at a random position within the port range.
#
#network.port_random.set = no
# Check hash for finished torrents. Might be usefull until the bug is
# fixed that causes lack of diskspace not to be properly reported.
#
#pieces.hash.on_completion.set = no
# Set whether the client should try to connect to UDP trackers.
#
#trackers.use_udp.set = yes
# Alternative calls to bind and ip that should handle dynamic ip's.
#
#schedule2 = ip_tick,0,1800,ip=rakshasa
#schedule2 = bind_tick,0,1800,bind=rakshasa
# Encryption options, set to none (default) or any combination of the following:
# allow_incoming, try_outgoing, require, require_RC4, enable_retry, prefer_plaintext
#
# The example value allows incoming encrypted connections, starts unencrypted
# outgoing connections but retries with encryption if they fail, preferring
# plaintext to RC4 encryption after the encrypted handshake
#
# protocol.encryption.set = allow_incoming,enable_retry,prefer_plaintext
# Enable DHT support for trackerless torrents or when all trackers are down.
# May be set to "disable" (completely disable DHT), "off" (do not start DHT),
# "auto" (start and stop DHT as needed), or "on" (start DHT immediately).
# The default is "off". For DHT to work, a session directory must be defined.
#
# dht.mode.set = auto
# UDP port to use for DHT.
#
#dht.port.set = 6881
# Enable peer exchange (for torrents not marked private)
#
#protocol.pex.set = yes
# Set downlad list layout style. ("full", "compact")
#
#ui.torrent_list.layout.set = "full"

Now Install Webserver:

Nginx

sudo service apache2 stop
sudo apt-get install nginx php5-fpm php5-cli

if not works use latest version
change 7.1 to 7.0 or compatible

sudo apt-get install php7.1
sudo apt-get install php7.1 php7.1-cli php7.1-common php7.1-json php7.1-opcache php7.1-mysql php7.1-mbstring php7.1-mcrypt php7.1-zip php7.1-fpm

Check php.ini location

php --ini |grep Loaded
Loaded Configuration File: /etc/php/7.1/cli/php.ini

Change Ownership of folders

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /usr/share/nginx/html
or
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html

Edit the file using your favorite text editor:

sudo nano /etc/php/7.1/cli/php.ini

Make the following changes:

cgi.fix_pathinfo=0

Then, restart the PHP-FPM service:

sudo systemctl restart php7.1-fpm.service

Install Nginx on Ubuntu 16.04

Installing Nginx on Ubuntu VPS is very easy. Run the following command to install it:

sudo apt-get install nginx

Create Nginx virtual server block for your domain name:

sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/example.com

Paste the following content:

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name example.com www.example.com;
    root /var/www/example.com;
    index index.php;

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
    }

    location ~ \.php$ {
        fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.1-fpm.sock;
        include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
    }

    location ~ /\.ht {
    deny all;
    }
}

or rtorrent tested:

server {
    listen   80;
    listen   [::]:80 default_server ipv6only=on; ## listen for ipv6
    root /usr/share/nginx/html;
    index index.php index.html index.htm;

    server_name localhost;

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html;
    }

    error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;

    location = /50x.html {
        root /usr/share/nginx/html;
    }

    # php5-fpm

    location ~ \.php$ {
        try_files $uri =404;
        fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
        # With php5-fpm:
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;
        #fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php-fpm7.0.sock;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        #include fastcgi_params;
        include fastcgi.conf;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
    }
}

Of course, you should replace example.com with your actual domain name. Save and close the file. To enable the server block in Nginx you need to create a symbolic link to site-enabled. Use the following command to create a symbolic link:

sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/example.com /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/example.com

Check if there are errors with the configuration:

sudo nginx -t

nginx: the configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf syntax is ok
nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test is successful

If the syntax is OK and there are no errors you can restart Nginx.

sudo systemctl restart nginx.service

Enable Nginx and PHP-FPM on system boot:

sudo systemctl enable nginx.service
sudo systemctl enable php7.1-fpm.service
or
sudo systemctl enable php7.0-fpm.service

Download rutorrent

cd /usr/share/nginx/html
svn checkout http://rutorrent.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/rutorrent
svn checkout http://rutorrent.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/plugins
rm -r rutorrent/plugins
mv plugins rutorrent/

Apache:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install apache2
sudo apache2ctl configtest

Output
AH00558: apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1. Set the 'ServerName' directive globally to suppress this message
Syntax OK

Open up the main configuration file with your text edit:

sudo nano /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

Inside, at the bottom of the file, add a ServerName directive, pointing to your primary domain name. If you do not have a domain name associated with your server, you can use your server's public IP address:

. . .
ServerName server_domain_or_IP

sudo apache2ctl configtest

Since we added the global ServerName directive, all you should see is:

Output
Syntax OK

sudo systemctl restart apache2

Install PHP Modules:

sudo apt-get install php libapache2-mod-php php-mcrypt php-mysql
sudo systemctl restart apache2

Download rutorrent

cd /usr/share/nginx/html
svn checkout http://rutorrent.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/rutorrent
svn checkout http://rutorrent.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/plugins
rm -r rutorrent/plugins
mv plugins rutorrent/

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
cd /var/www/html
git clone https://github.com/Novik/ruTorrent.git

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html

Theme Black:

cd /var/www/html/ruTorrent/plugins/theme/themes

git clone https://github.com/Micdu70/QuickBox-Dark.git
chown -R www-data:www-data QuickBox-Dark

And next?
Select it in your ruTorrent's settings...