Torrents

Torrents

Torrents is an HDAized version of the popular Torrent Flux downloader.

Tips

The very first login creates an administrator user, so remember what you type the first time for password! From the program:

'''IMPORTANT:''  The first time you access the application, you
will be prompted for a user/password -- this is when you will
set the SUPER ADMIN user and password by what you enter.  For
example, you pull the site up for the first time, you will
be prompted to login and if you put in user: 'goombah' and
password: 'iama' then your super admin user account will
be set to goombah/iama -- cool?   You are ready to access
the application!

This application can be accessed by simply typing torrents in the URL of your browser, or in other words, going to http://torrents/.

Once a torrent URL has been loaded, it has to be "run" in order for the download to start. One does that by clicking on the green icon for run:

The downloads all go into folders accessible as \\hda\torrents, one per each user of the app. That directory is world writeable (for now).

Hover the mouse over the status of a download to show full details on it.

Useful Firefox Extensions

Firefox Torrent Handler Extension, available Here allows you to right click on a .torrent file linked in a webpage and send it to your TorrentFlux system for queuing or immediate download. You can also login to your server with a right click or by clicking on the green icon at the bottom right corner in Firefox. Remember when setting your server URL (http://torrents/) that you include that final "/" or you will end up at a search page on the Internet.

iTorrenflux is an uploader extension also available Here, for Mac OS X. Sorry no Mac to test this one on.

--Repat 12:02, 7 August 2008 (PDT)

Instructions for using a Private Tracker

One of the Trackers I frequent is a Private Tracker. They like to say that the .torrent file is personalized for you. I had trouble using this Tracker with TorrentFlux until I found this Link today. There is a disclaimer though, it may not work with all Private Trackers.

--Repat 14:31, 8 September 2008 (PDT)