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Torrentflux-b4rt is the best software program to turn a old computer you have laying around into a file sharing server. Torrentflux is like other file sharing servers you may have used in the past, but this program is meant for linux and can be accessed using a web gui.

Since Torrentflux runs in a web browser, the greatest thing about Torrentflux is that it can be accessed from other computers 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 8.10, but can be used for other linux distributions with minor changes. The first thing that you are going to want to do is log in under su.

su

After you log in under su, you now are going to have to install a basic lamp system on your linux computer. A lamp system consists of apache and mysql, which will allow you to access your torrentflux-b4rt from a web browser.

apt-get install mysql-server php5-mysql apache2 bzip2 libapache2-mod-php5

After you have installed the lamp system, we can begin to download and extract the torrentflux program.

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 directory into a more easier one to remember.

mv torrentflux-b4rt-b4rt_1.0-beta2 torrentflux

We also need to install a few more programs.

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

After you have installed the above software, point Firefox towards http://IP/torrentflux-b4rt/html/setup.php to begin setting up torrentflux-b4rt.

Once the torrentflux-b4rt 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-b4rt account. After phpmyadmin opens up, you need to click on priviledges, and then on add a new user.

All you have to do is fill in the input boxes on the top of the screen and hit the select all button under global priviledges. Make sure you memorize the username and password, since this will be your login information for torrentflux. 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 user account 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 packages that are not installed, but your torrentflux file sharing server will work alright without the other programs.

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

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

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