Transmission Configration for Pivate Trackers

miAlism

miAlism / September 16, 2022

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Installation

WebUI version

apt install transmission-cli transmission-common transmission-daemon

Note: Before you can configure transmission-deamon, you need to stop it.

service transmission-daemon stop

Edit the configration file

vim /var/lib/transmission-daemon/info/settings.json

Parameters in configration file

RPC Authentication

"rpc-password": "SET YOUR PASSWD HERE"
"rpc-username": "SET YOUR USERNAME HERE"

password and username are used to authenticate the webUI which must be set both in plaintext, and the original value in password is SHA1 encrypted format.

RPC Whitelist

"rpc-whitelist": "127.0.0.1,*.*.*.*"
"rpc-whitelist-enabled": false

Grant permission to debian-transmission user

chown -R debian-transmission:debian-transmission /data/transmission

Note: /data/transmission is the directory where you want to store your downloading files.

Start transmission-daemon

service transmission-daemon start

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