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One of my favorite applications is Torrentflux! It allows me to download bittorent files! At first I wasn’t very fond of bittorent, but with Torrentflux I found it very easy and fast to download files compared to other tools like aMule. The other thing I like about it is that it doesn’t require a lot of resources.

Requirements

• apache2
• php5
• phpmyadmin
• php5-dev
• build-essential
• MySQL

Steps

1. Download torrentflux
2. Creating the database
3. Modifying torrentflux
4. Starting torrentflux for the first time

Downloading torrentflux

At the time this guide was written, the current version of torrentflux was torrentflux_2.3. To refer to the latest version, please see www.torrentflux.com

• cd /var/www
• sudo wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/torrentflux/torrentflux_2.3.tar.gz?download
• sudo tar zxvf torrentflux_2.3.tar.gz

Creating the database

• cd torrentflux_2.3
• mysqladmin -u root -p create torrentflux
• Password: password_for_mysql_root_user
• cd sql
• sudo mysql -u root -p torrentflux < mysql_torrentflux.sql
• Password: password_for_mysql_root_user

Modifying torrentflux

• cd /var/www/torrentflux_2.3/html
• sudo nano config.php

Modify the following:

• db_type = mysql
• db_host = localhost
• db_name = torrentflux
• db_user = root
• db_pass = password_for_mysql_root_user

Save your changes

• sudo chmod 777 /var/www/torrentflux_2.3/html/downloads

Starting torrentflux for the first time

Using your browser navigate to http://localhost/torrentflux_2.3/html

You can use any username and password when logging in for the first time.

To use torrentflux, click on the ‘home’ link and use the search tool to find the file type you are searching for. You also have a selection of bittorrent search engines you can select.

If you have a firewall make sure that you leave ports 49160 thru 49300 open, otherwise you’ll have very slow download speeds.

Nadia.