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simpletracker

simpletracker is a minimal implementation of a private BitTorrent tracker, written in PHP. It supports both the PostgreSQL and MySQL backends. Features include

  • uploading, downloading, listing, and viewing torrent files (including their contents),
  • a minimal tracker to communicate with BitTorrent clients,
  • user login, logout, and registration,
  • an invitation system, and
  • ... actually, that's all. Yes, it's very minimial.

Installation

Here's a terse walkthrough for the tech-savy:

  1. Recreate the database by using db.mysql.sql or db.pgsql.sql, depending on if you're using PostgreSQL or MySQL.
  2. Change the configuration in config.php as needed. At the very least you need to change base_url, and possibly db as well (unless you're using the defaults used in the sql files).
  3. Configure your web server (i.e. nginx or Apache) to serve the serve directory from the path you configured in config.php (i.e. base_url).
  4. If you navigate to the url, you should now see a login form. If not, your web server is misconfigured.
  5. Log in with username simpletracker and password simpletracker. If that fails, your database is misconfigured.
  6. Go to invitations, and make yourself an invitation. Follow the invitation link, and register for an account.
  7. Manually remove the simpletracker account from the users table.

The code has been tested on an Arch Linux server, using nginx (1.10.1), and both MySQL (10.1.18-MariaDB) and PostgreSQL (9.5.4). Users have also reported the code working on Windows. Your mileage may vary.