This tutorial will guide you through the setup of a fully-featured seedbox running on a Debian or Ubuntu system, including: libtorrent 0.13.0 rTorrent 0.9 ruTorrent Web UI (3.0) This guide has been tested with Debian 6 (x86_64) and Ubuntu 11.04 (x86_64). To start, access your VPS via SSH (as the root user) and do the following to update your platform and install some required dependencies: # apt-get update # apt-get install subversion build-essential automake libtool libcppunit-dev libcurl3-dev libsigc++-2.0-dev unzip unrar-free curl libncurses-dev # apt-get install apache2 php5 php5-cli php5-curl Enable scgi for Apache:# apt-get install libapache2-mod-scgi # ln -s /etc/apache2/mods-available/scgi.load /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/scgi.load Install XMLRPC:# mkdir /install;cd /install # svn checkout http://xmlrpc-c.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/xmlrpc-c/stable xmlrpc-c # cd xmlrpc-c # ./configure --disable-cplusplus # make # make install Intall libtorrent:# cd /install # wget http://vps6.net/src/libtorrent-0.13.0.tar.gz # tar xvf libtorrent-0.13.0.tar.gz # cd libtorrent-0.13.0 # ./autogen.sh # ./configure # make # make install Install rTorrent:# cd /install # wget http://vps6.net/src/rtorrent-0.9.0.tar.gz # cd rtorrent-0.9.0 # ./autogen.sh # ./configure --with-xmlrpc-c # make # make install # ldconfig Create required directories:# mkdir /home/seeder1/rtorrent # mkdir /home/seeder1/rtorrent/.session # mkdir /home/seeder1/rtorrent/watch # mkdir /home/seeder1/rtorrent/download Setup .rtorrent.rc file (rTorrent config):# cd ~/ # wget http://vps6.net/src/.rtorrent.rc # cp .rtorrent.rc /home/seeder1/ (Edit the settings in .rtorrent.rc, like max upload/download speed, max connected peers, etc, as needed.) Install rTorrent:# cd /install # wget http://vps6.net/src/rutorrent-3.0.tar.gz # tar xvf rutorrent-3.0.tar.gz # mv rutorrent /var/www # wget http://vps6.net/src/plugins-3.0.tar.gz # tar xvf plugins-3.0.tar.gz # mv plugins /var/www/rutorrent # rm -rf /var/www/rutorrent/plugins/darkpal # chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/rutorrent Secure /rutorrent:# a2enmod ssl # a2enmod auth_digest # a2enmod scgi # openssl req $@ -new -x509 -days 365 -nodes -out /etc/apache2/apache.pem -keyout /etc/apache2/apache.pem # chmod 600 /etc/apache2/apache.pem # htdigest -c /etc/apache2/passwords seedbox seeder1 (Enter a password of your choice when prompted, you will use this to log in to the ruTorrent web UI.) # cd /etc/apache2/sites-available/ # rm -rf default # wget http://vps6.net/src/default # a2ensite default-ssl # /etc/init.d/apache2 reload Install screen:# apt-get install screen Start rTorrent in a detached shell using screen:# screen -fa -d -m rtorrent (To start rtorrent automatically when the VPS is booted, add the above command to /etc/rc.local) You can now access ruTorrent at http://xx.xx.xx.xx/rutorrent/ (replace xx.xx with your server's IP address). You should be greeted with a login prompt, where the username is "seeder1" and the password is the one you set above in the "secure /rutorrent" section. From our knowledgebase.