Cannot add torrent via URL

[Patrick Conwell]

Hi all,

I had rtorrent + rtgui setup and working fine until I moved some stuff
to a backup computer. I messed something up and decided to start all
over. Now, I cannot add a torrent in rtgui via URL.

Everything else seems to work fine. I can add a torrent via url from
rtorrent, or drop a .torrent in my watch folder and it works. I can
see the torrents in rtgui, stop them, restart them, delete them,
everything.

The only thing I cannot do is add a torrent thru rtgui. Nothing
happens. I copy/paste the url and.... nothing. No error messages in
either rtgui or rtorrent, just nothing.

(BTW, I get a permission denied if I tried to add a torrent via file,
but I don't care about that. But it might be related).

[Sam Redfern]

Hey Patrick,

Check the folder permissions of the watch folder. Make sure www-data can write to it. To test this just change the folder permissions to 766 (chmod 766 *Folder path*).

Cheers,

- Sam Redfern

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "rtGui" group.
To post to this group, send email to rt...@googlegroups.com.
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rtgui+un...@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rtgui?hl=en.

[Patrick Conwell]

Okay, kinda random, but here's what I got: I had my torrents in ~/
torrents with it owned by www-data, 777, etc etc. I was getting weird
issues (free space showing up wrong, etc), so I tried moving my
torrents to /torrents (root instead of home). It seems to have fixed
my problems, but I'm still having some issues.

Now, I can add torrents by file, BUT I have to kinda hack it. I have
everything configured for rtgui to download torrents to /torrents/
watch, but the torrents are download to /torrents instead, and I'm not
sure why. I just changed the rtorrent watch directory to /torrents as
a work around. It works, but not the way it should. However, I still
cannot add torrents by URL, which is what I really want.

I have a feeling something is just cross configured, but I don't have
time to look at it right now. I'll let you know in a few days.

Thanks.

On Aug 13, 7:16 pm, Sam Redfern <sredf...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey Patrick,
>
> Check the folder permissions of the watch folder. Make sure www-data can
> write to it. To test this just change the folder permissions to 766 (chmod
> 766 *Folder path*).
>
> Cheers,
>
> - Sam Redfern
>
> On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 4:22 AM, Patrick Conwell

> <patrick.conw...@gmail.com>wrote:

>
> > Hi all,
>
> > I had rtorrent + rtgui setup and working fine until I moved some stuff
> > to a backup computer. I messed something up and decided to start all
> > over. Now, I cannot add a torrent in rtgui via URL.
>
> > Everything else seems to work fine. I can add a torrent via url from
> > rtorrent, or drop a .torrent in my watch folder and it works. I can
> > see the torrents in rtgui, stop them, restart them, delete them,
> > everything.
>
> > The only thing I cannot do is add a torrent thru rtgui. Nothing
> > happens. I copy/paste the url and.... nothing. No error messages in
> > either rtgui or rtorrent, just nothing.
>
> > (BTW, I get a permission denied if I tried to add a torrent via file,
> > but I don't care about that. But it might be related).
>
> > --
> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
> > "rtGui" group.
> > To post to this group, send email to rt...@googlegroups.com.
> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to

> > rtgui+un...@googlegroups.com <rtgui%2Bunsu...@googlegroups.com>.

[Patrick Conwell]

Okay, got it working! I tried EVERYTHING, eventually I just gave up
and started from scratch, deleting/uninstalling everything remotely
related to this issue (apache, php, rtorrent, libtorrent, rtgui, etc).
I guess I had an old config in there somewhere and it was crapping the
whole thing up.