FriendlyTorrent

FriendlyTorrent is a web PHP script to download torrents with a beautiful an intuitive web responsive interface. Moreover it allow you to explore and share download files "in the cloud" with your friends. This software is based on Transmission torrent software.

This is a BETA version, maybe you can help us ? :) TODO List

What's included

Within the download you'll find the following directories and files. You'll see something like this:

bootstrap/
├── board.sql
├── install.sh
└── src/
    ├── bootstrap/
    ├── controllers/
    ├── core/
    ├── models/
    ├── theme/
    ├── tmp/
    ├── tornado/
    ├── uploadify/
    ├── views/
    ├── .htaccess
    ├── favicon.ico
    └── index.php

Automatic installation (Ubuntu, Debian ...)

• Download the latest release.
• run the install wizard with this following commands

sudo chmod +x ./install.sh
sudo ./install.sh 

• Enable HTACESS for the web folder (vhost file).

Solution to enable HTACCESS but it's not secure :

sudo nano /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

Change Directory directive

<Directory /var/www/>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
        Require all granted
</Directory>

To

<Directory /var/www/>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
</Directory>

Then, restart the apache service

sudo service apache2 restart

Go to : http://localhost/

Manual installation

Dependencies

You must have installed this before :

• Apache2
• php5
• mysql-server
• libapache2-mod-php5
• php5-curl
• php5-mysql
• memcached
• php5-memcache
• php5-memcached
• transmission
• transmission-daemon
• zip

Files Import

Put all files of the src/ folder in your web folder (for example in /var/www/).

Create the download folder where all your downloads will be stored (ex : /var/downloads/)

Create .transfert folder (ex : /var/downloads/.transferts/)

Create user folder (ex : /var/downloads/user-name/)

Give folders rights with sudo chown www-data /var/downloads/ -R

Cofigure the src/core/config/global.php file with yours settings :

<?php
define('ROOT_DOWNLOADS','/var/downloads/');
define('TRANSMISSION','/usr/bin/transmission-daemon');
define('LANGUAGE','en');
?>

MySQL Import

Import the MySQL database board.sql

Configure the src/core/config/bdd.php file with yours settings :

<?php
//CONFIG MYSQL
$BDD_MYSQL_SERVER = 'localhost';
$BDD_MYSQL_LOGIN = 'root';
$BDD_MYSQL_PASS = 'password';
$BDD_MYSQL_BDD = 'FriendlyTorrentDB';
?>

Add user in the users table with MD5 encryption for the password :

insert into users(login,mail,password,boxe,couleur,lastScan,rss,admin,port) values('USERNAME','-','MD5_PASSWORD','/YOUR_DOWNLOADS_FLODER/USERNAME', '78ba00', 0, '', 1, 9091);

Apache Configuration

Enable memcache in your php.ini file (/etc/php5/apache2/php.ini) adding line extension=memcache.so

Enable HTACESS for the web folder.

Solution to enable HTACCESS but it's not secure :

sudo nano /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

Change Directory directive

<Directory /var/www/>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
        Require all granted
</Directory>

To

<Directory /var/www/>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
</Directory>

Add thoose lines in the cron table /etc/cron.d/php5

*/1 * * * *     www-data wget "http://localhost/action/refreshTorrent/" -O /dev/null' >> /etc/cron.d/php5

Initialization

Restart cron sudo /etc/init.d/cron restart

Restart Apache sudo service apache2 reload

Stop transmission sudo service transmission stop

Go to : http://localhost/

Read the Official Website for more information.

Community

Keep track of development and community news.

• Follow @FriendlyTorrent on Twitter.
• Read and subscribe to The Official Website.