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Llama

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From: St.-Petersburg, Russia

Registered: 2008-03-03

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Transmission Web Interface

Hi,

Transmission Web interface seems to be poorly documented, unless I'm missing something obvious. Well,

# /etc/rc.d/transmissiond start

then

localhost:9091

do the trick, more or less.

My first question: I've got a GUI version seeding some torrents (transmission-qt). Stopping GUI and starting WebUI I expected the Web version to continue seeding, but no such luck. Is there a way to tell it to carry on with the existing set of torrents?

Meyithi

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From: Wirral, UK

Registered: 2009-06-21

Posts: 550

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Re: Transmission Web Interface

https://trac.transmissionbt.com/wiki/ConfigFiles

If you want to swap between the two applications, all you have to do is pass in a different config directory with the -g command-line option. For example, to have the daemon pick up where the gtk+ client left off, run transmission-daemon -g ~/.config/transmission.

Change the path to whatever client you want to resume from and you're done.

Oops, I should mention that you should be running the daemon and then you can access it through whatever front end you like.

Last edited by Meyithi (2011-01-24 03:46:41)

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Llama

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From: St.-Petersburg, Russia

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Re: Transmission Web Interface

Thanks, Meyithi!
I discovered that you have to run

$ transmission-daemon -g ~/.config/transmission

every time you start it. You can't really use /etc/rc.d/transmissiond start (or just put it into /etc/rc.conf), or can you?

Another question: is it possible to set the thing as a default application for torrents in Firefox?

Last edited by Llama (2011-01-24 04:20:34)

Meyithi

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From: Wirral, UK

Registered: 2009-06-21

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Re: Transmission Web Interface

I discovered that you have to run

$ transmission-daemon -g ~/.config/transmission

every time you start it. You can't really use /etc/rc.d/transmissiond start (or just put it into /etc/rc.conf), or can you?

Take a look at /etc/conf.d.d/transmissiond, there is an TRANS_ARGS field where you can specify what config files to use, for example I use..

TRANS_ARGS="-T --blocklist -g $TRANSMISSION_HOME/.config/transmission-daemon"

because I use the daemon as a base and access it through the web interface.

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Llama

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From: St.-Petersburg, Russia

Registered: 2008-03-03

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Re: Transmission Web Interface

Thanks!

Another problem: can't access the "server":

stovepipebox:9091 on the "client"

403: Forbidden

Unauthorized IP Address.

Either disable the IP address whitelist or add your address to it.

If you're editing settings.json, see the 'rpc-whitelist' and 'rpc-whitelist-enabled' entries.

If you're still using ACLs, use a whitelist instead. See the transmission-daemon manpage for details.

On the "server", I put my "client" IP into settings.json:

"rpc-whitelist": "127.0.0.1,192.168.1.34",
"rpc-whitelist-enabled": true,

restarted the daemon, but still 403.

Llama

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Re: Transmission Web Interface

Another trouble: can I tell WebUI where to store data files (on a per torrent basis)?