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Install a Headless Deluge Bittorrent Server on FreeBSD

Added by Daniel Curtis almost 9 years ago. Updated over 7 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
Daniel Curtis
Category:
-
Target version:
FreeBSD 11
Start date:
01/22/2016
Due date:
% Done:

100%

Estimated time:
1.00 h
Spent time:
3.00 h

Description

This is a guide on how to install the Deluge bittorrent client on a server and controlled by the web interface on FreeBSD 9 10 11.

Prepare the Environment

  • Make sure the system is up to date:
    pkg update && pkg upgrade

Install Deluge

  • Install deluge:
    pkg install deluge-cli
  • Create the deluge user:
    pw useradd -n deluge -m -c "Deluge" -s /sbin/nologin -w no
  • Create the directory to store the deluge config files:
    mkdir -p /home/deluge/.config/deluge
chown -R deluge:deluge /home/deluge/
  • Start and enable the deluge daemon at boot:
    echo 'deluged_enable="YES"' >> /etc/rc.conf
echo 'deluged_user="deluge"' >> /etc/rc.conf
service deluged start
  • Start and enable the deluge web interface at boot:
    echo 'deluge_web_enable="YES"' >> /etc/rc.conf
echo 'deluge_web_user="deluge"' >> /etc/rc.conf
service deluge_web start

Install Nginx

  • Install Nginx
    pkg install nginx
  • Start and enable nginx at boot:
    echo 'nginx_enable="YES"' >> /etc/rc.conf
service nginx start
  • Create a configuration directory to make managing individual server blocks easier
    mkdir /usr/local/etc/nginx/conf.d
  • Edit the main nginx config file:
    vi /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
    • And strip down the config file and add the include statement at the end to make it easier to handle various server blocks:
      worker_processes  1;
error_log  /var/log/nginx-error.log;

events {
    worker_connections  1024;
}

http {
    include       mime.types;
    default_type  application/octet-stream;

    sendfile        on;
    keepalive_timeout  65;

    # Load config files from the /etc/nginx/conf.d directory
    include /usr/local/etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
}
  • Add a deluge site server block:
    vi /usr/local/etc/nginx/conf.d/deluge.example.com.conf
    • Add the following:
      server {
    listen       80 default_server;
    server_name  deluge.example.com;
    access_log  /var/log/deluge.example.com.log;

    location / {
        proxy_pass http://localhost:8112/;
    }
}

Torrenting Protection

Encryption

  • From the web interface, go to Preferences -> Encryption
    1. Make sure Inbound is Enabled
    2. Make sure Outbound is Enabled
    3. click the Level menu and choose Full Stream
    4. Make sure to enable [X] Encrypt entire stream
    5. Click Apply and OK

Blocklist

  • From the web interface, go to Preferences -> Plugins and enable the Blocklist plugin, then click OK.
  • Check for new list every 1 day
  • Import blocklist on startup is checked
  • Click Apply and OK.

The Onion Router

  • Install TOR:
    pkg install tor
  • Tor users are strongly advised to prevent traffic analysis that exploits sequential IP IDs by setting:
    sysctl net.inet.ip.random_id=1
  • Edit the TOR config file:
    vi /usr/local/etc/tor/torrc
    • And add/modify the following lines:
      RunAsDaemon 1
  • Start and enable TOR at boot:
    echo 'tor_enable="YES"' >> /etc/rc.conf
service tor start
  • From the web interface, go to Preferences -> Proxy:
  • Configure Web Seed type to Socksv5:
    1. Set host to localhost
    2. Set port to 9050
  • Configure Tracker type to Socksv5:
    1. Set host to localhost
    2. Set port to 9050
  • Configure DHT type to Socksv5:
    1. Set host to localhost
    2. Set port to 9050

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