Phoenix v.3.1.5

A lightweight BitTorrent Tracker written in PHP, with an SQL backend, for people that just want to host a tracker, not the torrent listing site.

Installation

What Do You Need?

Required

• A PHP compatible web-server.
• PHP >= 5.4.0 with Core, SimpleXML, date, filter, json, mysqli, pcre, & standard extensions. (Generated using PHP CompatInfo
• A MySQLI supported database, such as MySQL >= 4.1

Recommended

• The latest version of Nginx ( >= 1.10.0 with HTTP/2 )
• The latest version of PHP
• The latest version of MariaDB ( >= 10 )

Install Guide

1. Copy _settings/phoenix.default.php to _settings/phoenix.custom.php
2. Edit the variables in _settings/phoenix.custom.php
3. Upload all the .php and .sh files to your server.
4. Load admin.php in your browser and run the Setup option.

Configuration

Configuration should take place in _settings/phoenix.custom.php, NOT _settings/phoenix.default.php. Phoenix will attempt to use the default configuration if yours is missing.

Cron (Automating Maintenance)

1. Configure _cron/hourly/backup-database.sh by changing the path in the second line, and the username, password, database, and file in the last three.
2. Edit _settings/phoenix.custom.php and set $settings['clean_with_cron'] to true instead of false. You can also set $settings['clean_with_requests'] to 0 to save processing time.
3. Edit your crontab with crontab -e, and add a crontab like the following. You can edit the times, and should make sure the paths are correct by running the commands after the asteriks.

15 * * * * php ~/phoenix/_cron/hourly/clean-and-optimize.php
30 * * * * ~/phoenix/_cron/hourly/backup-database.sh