rutorrent-docker

A full featured install of some of the most popular features for rutorrent and the supporting services. This install was designed specifically for the seedbox-from-scratch Mod 2 to replace the system installed version. Seedbox from scratch Mod 2 Github Rutorrent Github Rutorrent Github

Usage

docker create --name rutorrent  \
-h ${SYSTEMHOSTNAME}  \
-v <path to data>:/downloads  \
-v <path to data>:/config  \
-e PGID=id -u <username>  \
-e PUID=id -g <username>  \
-p <external port>:443  \
-p <external port>:80  \
-p 51413:51413  \
-p 6881:6881  \
-p 5000:5000  \
-v <path to local ssl certs>:/etc/ssl/certs:ro  \
-v <path to localtime>:/etc/localtime:ro  \
thevisad/rutorrent

Parameters

`The -v and -p parameters are remapping host to container services and allow access to the outside world. These are represented by a colon, the left hand side is the host and the right the container side. For example a port remapping of -p 8080:80 (-p external:internal) would expose the containers port 80 to the host and would be accessible from the outside world. Browsing to http://localhost:8080 on the host will present you the site hosted at port 80 in the container.

• -p 80 - the port(s)
• -p 5000 - the port(s)
• -p 51413 - the port(s)
• -p 6881/udp - the port(s)
• -v /config - where rutorrent should store it's config files
• -v /downloads - path to your downloads folder
• -e PGID for GroupID - see below for explanation
• -e PUID for UserID - see below for explanation
• -e TZ for timezone information, eg Europe/London

It is based on alpine linux with s6 overlay, for shell access while the container is running do docker exec -it rutorrent /bin/bash.

User / Group Identifiers

To avoid issues with file permissions betweeo host and container we add in the -e PGID commands to map the external user owner on the host to the internal owner on the container.

In this instance PUID=1001 and PGID=1001. To find yours use id user as below:

  $ id <dockeruser>
    uid=1001(dockeruser) gid=1001(dockergroup) groups=1001(dockergroup)

Setting up the application

The web ui can be found at <your-ip>:80 , configuration files for rtorrent are in /config/rtorrent, php in config/php and for the web ui in /config/rutorrent/settings.

An settings changed by the user through the panel in ruTorrent, are only valid until rtorrent restarts. The settings will reset to the defaults configured in the rtorrent config file (/config/rtorrent/rtorrent.rc).

** It should be noted that this container will create subfolders ,completed, incoming and watched in the /downloads volume.**

** The Port Assignments and configuration folder structure has been changed from the previous ubuntu based versions of this container and we recommend a clean install **

Umask can be set in the /config/rtorrent/rtorrent.rc file by changing value in system.umask.set

Info

• Shell access whilst the container is running: sudo docker exec -i -t rutorrent /bin/bash

• To monitor the logs of the container in realtime: docker logs -f rutorrent

• container version number

docker inspect -f '{{ index .Config.Labels "build_version" }}' rutorrent

• image version number

docker inspect -f '{{ index .Config.Labels "build_version" }}' thevisad/rutorrent