This tutorial will guide you step-by-step through the installation process for bittorrent-tracker on FreeBSD Latest.
Before proceeding, make sure that your FreeBSD Latest system has the following components installed:
To start the installation process, first, clone the bittorrent-tracker repository to your FreeBSD Latest system using the Git command below:
git clone https://github.com/webtorrent/bittorrent-tracker.git
This will create a new directory named "bittorrent-tracker" on your system.
Next, navigate to the bittorrent-tracker directory and install the dependencies using NPM package manager:
cd bittorrent-tracker
npm install
This will download and install all the required dependencies for bittorrent-tracker.
Before running the tracker, you need to configure it. The configuration file for bittorrent-tracker is located in the bittorrent-tracker directory and named config.js. You can edit this file to configure the tracker as per your requirements.
For example, to change the default port number from 8000 to 8888, open config.js and modify the following line:
module.exports = {
// ...
http: {
port: 8000, // Change to 8888
// ...
},
// ...
};
Once you have completed the configuration, run the bittorrent-tracker using the following NPM command:
npm start
This will start the tracker on the configured port. You can verify it by accessing it in your web browser at http://<your-ip-address>:<configured-port>/announce.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed and configured bittorrent-tracker on FreeBSD Latest. Now you can use it to host and manage your own torrent files.
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