What do i do?

[=ChAoS=]

Hello all and sorry for the stupid questions but let me explain ...

In the past month i have rented a dedicated remote server running ubuntu 10.04. I had no previous knowledge of either a remote server or ubuntu. Now i have a webserver running (controlled by ispconfig) and teamspeak and shoutcast servers also running. I have my forum (IPB 3.1.2) up and going and all i want now is a decent torrent client running i can remotely log into with a webui from my windows desktop to add/delete torrents etc.

I have chosen deluge after messing with some others as it seems to do all i want. I would also like to be able to add a user ie my mate thats sharing the server with me. Infact its him that wants a "seedbox" most. So what do i need to install?

I can nx into the server and have installed gedit, aptitude and gnome terminal. I have checked the repositorys and i see a few packages. What one is best and what file do i configure to set it up correctly. I have looked about but can't find the answers tho they may have been staring me right in the face.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks =ChAoS=

[=ChAoS=]

I have installed the complete deluge package from the ubuntu 10.04 repository and the webui but it will not open in my browser. I have tried restarting deluge but when i put http://<my server ip>:8112 i get cannot display webpage.

Any ideas please? Thanks =ChAoS=

[Aon]

Hello,

I believe you need to make sure that deluged and deluge-web is actually running on the server.
I'm not familiar with Ubuntu's deluge package, did it create a deluge user for you?

Try writing the following commands after logging in:

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su - deluged
deluged
deluge-web

If my assumptions are correct, you should be able to open the deluge web UI from your desktop now.

Good luck!

[=ChAoS=]

thanks for the reply.

The first time i tried the commands you wrote i got "deluge is not installed you can install it with apt-get install deluge" which i did but when I tried the commands again after i got "Unknown id: deluged".

does this mean its not running? if so how do i start it please?

Thanks =ChAoS=

[Aon]

My pleasure.

It means that apt didn't create a "deluge" user on your system. You should create one, write this command:

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useradd -d /home/deluge -m deluge

In order to make deluge start on bootup, you should follow this guide.

From the guide, do you see the line that reads:

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DELUGED_USER=""             # !!!CHANGE THIS!!!!

That line must be changed to specify the user you'll be using for deluged, e.g:

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DELUGED_USER="deluge"

Good luck!

[=ChAoS=]

Hello again,

In the past few days i have completely reformatted and re installed everything on my server. I did play with deluge slightly before but not properly. I didn't make the init script tho i understand it as i have made (copied ) one for my teamspeak3 server and a few other things.

I can see from the linked tutorial how this would get deluge running and it has the manual putty commands to start / stop too. So before i go and dive in again theres one question i would like to ask ... Can i have more than one remote user?

If this can be done ... How?

I would like to add my mate who co shares the server so we both have our own account and can both log into deluge. When we tried it before the re install we both seemed to be controlling the same account. He could see what i was adding and if i changed the download directory in the webui then it changed for him also. Its not a major if we had to share one account as we have nothing to hide and raid each others shares on the server anyway using sftp. But doing this means i can copy his files but not accidently delete them as i don't have that permission.

So in an ideal world we would have seperate accounts as far as logging into the webui went and also i believe if i install deluge on my windows7 desktop i can access the daemon from there also to control my torrents.

Please remember this is a remote dedicated server altho we do hav nx running so can see the server from our desktops as well as the usual putty and sftp/ftp connections. This is why the webui or desktop connection matters to us.

Thanks =ChAoS=