rTorrentWeb bolts a sexy(ish) web UI onto the popular Linux torrent client
If you've heard of rTorrent, you've probably guessed what this is: a Web GUI layer for rTorrent. If you haven't heard of it, which is really unlikely, rTorrent is a command-line interface BitTorrent tool. rTorrentWeb basically straps a PHP-enabled web server to rTorrent. In this case Lighttpd is used, but you could use an existing Apache installation if you like.
After you install rTorrent, 'screen' (isn't this installed on every Linux system by default?), and a web browser, you need to install rTorrentWeb itself. This basically uses rTorrent's XMLRPC to hook in and provide you with a nice Web-based user interface.
Take a look at the full installation instructions if you want to give it a go -- it's fairly early days for the rTorrentWeb guys, as you can see, but they've just reached version 1.0 Beta! Hooray!
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Subscribe to commentsHelJan 6th 2010 10:48AM
There's not much documentation on their site at all. This could be great, in the future, but has a LONG way to go. Even after you get this installed, I don't see any options to configure the nitty-gritty of rTorrent, so, if you want to enable some of rTorrent's more advanced features, bust out your text-editor, cause you've got a few config files to edit.
My personal preference on Linux is Vuze (Azureus). Yeah, I know, "big, bloated, slow, Java", but, I've got the extra CPU cycles to spare, and it's got all the features I need, there are several very powerful plugins for RSS feeds (which I use heavily), and it gets updated quite a bit.
Sebastian AnthonyJan 6th 2010 11:05AM
Yar, documentation is very thin. There's tons for rTorrent itself though.
As far as the GUI itself goes, I imagine it's just a matter of hacking at HTML and CSS if you want to make things LOOK different.
To be honest, the console version (rTorrent) is pretty good too!
I'm sure Vuze works just fine :)
Daniel15Jan 7th 2010 3:56AM
Hi, I'm the lead developer of rTorrentWeb :)
Yeah, documentation is something I definitely need to work on. I'm a developer, so the code documentation is pretty good, but end-user documentation is something I really need to improve on (in all the projects I work on). If anyone wants to contribute ideas for the documentation, please feel free to.
I didn't add an interface to configure rTorrent's settings because I wanted to keep rTorrentWeb pretty simple. It's something that might be added in the future, but there's other things with higher priority that need to be done first. This beta has some known issues that I have to get around to fixing. :-)
Sebastian AnthonyJan 7th 2010 11:52AM
Well as long as you don't forget COMMENTS... :P
It's early days! The Linux segment is a small one, but I'm sure you'll pick up a few users at least -- and with those, a few that will surely help with documentation :)
motangJan 8th 2010 10:28AM
Looks awfully familiar...uTorrent web interface.
Sebastian AnthonyJan 8th 2010 10:30AM
Imitation... flattery... etc.
No need to invent the wheel!
Windows 3.1 and Mac WIMP/GUI...
I could go on, but I'm just rambling now.