upload path with rss plugin doubts (or problem not sure)

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Runnung Ubuntu 9.10 server or desktop , install everything to have a
working rutorrent + rtorrent
2. my torrents usually are downloaded to /home/xxxx/torrents , and in the
config.php in rutorrent dir i set upload path to /home/xxxx/torrents and
try to load a feed and it will say error loading xxxx.torrent 
3. But if i leave it at ./torrents or what it is when it's at default it
will work (i wanted it in the home folder , i have 777'd the folder , tried
adding http user to same group , etc 

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
supposed to load the feed but giving error loading torrent unless i leave
the upload path in config.php of rutorrent at default (./torrents)

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
svn version of both rutorrent and rss plugin , but tried with the normal
ones from the page with same problem

Are some errors present in the web-server log?
no
Are some errors present in the browser console?
Error loading torrent (torrentname.torrent)
Please provide any additional information below.
Not sure if it's supposed to be like this or if i'm doing something wrong ,
i would like it to save the .torrent file in /home/xxxx/torrents for peace
of mind and also due the custom labels thru rtorrent that i'm using and
also the unrar script etc .

Thanks in advance , if need more details or something let me know .

Original issue reported on code.google.com by slas...@gmail.com on 17 Dec 2009 at 8:32

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I need to specify $uploads variable as *relative* path. 

Original comment by novik65 on 17 Dec 2009 at 9:16

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also, the rutorrent .torrent directory isn't the same as the rtorrent torrent 
directory.

Rutorrent needs a temporary directory to store torrents in when you add them 
via the
webui, this is what config.php is refering to.  It needs to be writable by your 
WEB
user, while rtorrent uses a watch directory which is writable by your rtorrent 
user.

This apparently is a common point of confusion, as i've seen a few people 
lately who
have problems with one thing or another and it turns out they changed these 
settings.

Original comment by Wonslung@gmail.com on 17 Dec 2009 at 9:45

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Thanks , when i first installed rutorrent the guide i read said to put the the 
same
path as the one where i rtorrent watching , so ever since then i been doing 
that and
today decided to try the default and lo and behold it worked .

Well thanks for clarifying the doubt for me , guess i will have to use this 
method :)
, my idea was to remove the line that auto deles the .torrent and set it to not 
start
the download right away so that the rtorrent watch would catch it (since i use 
my
rtorrent cfg to label torrents and auto extract them to the corresponding 
category on
my media server) .

Guess if there's nothing else i can do you can close this .

Thank you very much :)

Original comment by slas...@gmail.com on 17 Dec 2009 at 9:54

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Also i even ran lighttpd as root at some point to check if was permissions but 
still
no luck , tried with rtorrent user too also the same (of course if root 
couldn't the
normal user couldn't either but i like to test everything :P)

Original comment by slas...@gmail.com on 17 Dec 2009 at 9:56

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Original comment by novik65 on 17 Dec 2009 at 10:46

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