Comments on: Torrentflux — web-based BitTorrent client

By: Andrea Ratto

Andrea Ratto — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 14:53:48 +0000

torrentflux is badly unmantained, using it might pose security problems.
There is a fork in beta, but clutch is the project to look at.

Writing guides should be done only when you really have the right knowledges, since some newbie is going to cut and paste anything he sees on the web.
Why don’t you check out clutch and write something about that, so that it is usable in 2008?

By: Olivia

Olivia — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:42:34 +0000

Contact with me:
olivia1990@gmail.com

By: Olivia

Olivia — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:41:28 +0000

No. They are from Leopard.

By: Adi

Adi — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:15:47 +0000

Are those screenshots from Gnome? What theme is that? It looks great.

By: PaulFXH

PaulFXH — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:05:01 +0000

Hi Olivia
Thank you for this howto.
I’ve been trying for the last couple of days to get this thing installed in Ubuntu 7.10 but can’t get past a certain point.
I hope you can help me.
OK, I’ve gotten the database created and the import of the torrent-flux.sql has been successful.
Then I’ve done the editing of the config.php file but I’m not sure if the values I inputted are correct are not. What would help would be if your “Figure 5. Editing config.php” contained your entries after editing rather than what was there originally. This would give me some clues as to how my entries should look.
Now, here’s where I really got stuck.
When you say “We go to the address where TF is supposed to be” I’m lost.
Does TF refer to your database or to TorrentFlux?
I can quite easily go to where my database is, but no login page appears.
Perhaps you could give me some clues as to where this address might be.
Sorry for the newbie questions but I really am trying.
Thanks
Paul

By: Michael Joser

Michael Joser — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:15:48 +0000

I have tried TorrentFlux but i prefer B4rt’s version located at http://tf-b4rt.berlios.de/

b4rt just rocks

By: Cory

Cory — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:47:27 +0000

I’ve been using TorrentFlux for a couple of weeks now. Pretty sweet. And the FireFox add in so you can right-click on a torrent link and add it into your TorrentFlux is great also.

One problem I’ve noticed so far is that you can’t browse/delete directories (created by torrent downloads) that contain some special characters. So then I’m forced to go in by hand to remove those. Also, it would be nice if other users, non-admins, were restricted in what they can see. For instance a non-user can see all history and downloads, there’s no level of separation there.

But so far I’m finding it pretty sweet. Another use for my fileserver, and to offload these tasks off of my Windows box using bitcomet.

By: Zach Loeber

Zach Loeber — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:11:21 +0000

You may find this small howto I wrote useful. It explains how to setup ipblock in a headless manner for a torrentflux server.

http://www.the-little-things.net/blog/?p=9

cheers!
Zach