WebUI-aria2 is a web interface for the popular download utility, aria2. This tutorial will guide you through the steps needed to install WebUI-aria2 on macOS.
Before you can use WebUI-aria2, you need to first install the aria2 download utility. You can do this using the Homebrew package manager by running the following command in Terminal:
brew install aria2
Next, you need to download and extract the WebUI-aria2 files. You can do this by visiting the WebUI-aria2 GitHub page at https://github.com/ziahamza/webui-aria2 and clicking on the "Clone or download" button, and then selecting "Download ZIP".
Once the ZIP file has finished downloading, extract its contents by double-clicking on it.
After extracting the ZIP file, you should have a folder called "webui-aria2-master". Move this folder to your desired location, such as your Documents folder.
To start aria2 with WebUI-aria2, open Terminal and navigate to the folder where you extracted the WebUI-aria2 files, and then run the following command:
aria2c --enable-rpc --rpc-listen-all=true --rpc-allow-origin-all -D
This command starts aria2 with the WebUI-aria2 interface, and runs it in the background as a daemon process.
Once aria2 with WebUI-aria2 is running, you can access the web interface by opening your web browser and navigating to the following URL:
http://localhost:8888
This will open the WebUI-aria2 interface, where you can start downloading files using aria2.
WebUI-aria2 is a powerful and easy-to-use web interface for the aria2 download utility. By following these steps, you should now have WebUI-aria2 up and running on your macOS system.
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