Torrentflux-b4rt the best software program to turn a old computer you have laying around into a file sharing server. Torrentflux-b4rt is like other torrent 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 as a web gui, the best thing about torrentflux is that it can be accessed from other pc’s on your local area network and while you are on the road away from home. The following directions will show you how to install torrentflux-b4rt on Ubuntu 9.04, 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 apache2 and mysql, which will allow you to access your torrentflux-b4rt 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 torrent server.

cd /var/www

wget http://gunblade.fakap.net/doc/torrentflux-b4rt_1.0-beta2.tar.bz2

tar -xjvf torrentflux-b4rt_1.0-beta2.tar.bz2

This command will change the torrentflux-b4rt name into a easier one to remember.

mv torrentflux-b4rt_1.0-beta2 torrentflux

We also need to install a few more software programs.

apt-get install php5-cli php5-gd phpmyadmin zip unzip unrar libxml-dom-perl libxml-simple-perl libthreads-shared-perl libhtml-parser-perl transmission-cli libdigest-sha1-perl bittornado

Next after you have installed the above packages, point Firefox web browser towards http://IP/torrentflux/html/setup.php to begin the installation process of torrentflux-b4rt.

Once the torrentflux-br4t 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. Once phpmyadmin opens up, you will need to click on priviledges. After you click on priviledges, you will then need to select add a new user.

All you have to do now fill in the boxes on the top of the screen and hit the check all button under global priviledges. Make sure you remember 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/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 chmod a few files to 777. There are a few ways to chmod 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 programs that are not installed, but you torrentflux-b4rt filesharing server will work perfectly fine without the other packages.

The last thing that you have to do in order to access your torrentflux-b4rt account is to delete /var/www/torrentflux/html/setup.php.

rm /var/www/torrentflux/html/setup.php

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