Start your own public tracker

thanks for this rvt i have a tracker using tbdev code but i am starting another site so will try this code thanks

man this is awesome!
i'v been waiting for something like this for a long time.
too bad i'm having problems at the moment, and i can't
figure what i'm doing wrong. it says on webspace that
it might take up to 48 hours for your domain to work, can
it be it?

anyway i'll check back tomorow, hopfully it will work, and
if not i hope someone here will be able to help me ;)

how do you compare this with diferior ?

http://diferior.com/

Looks like diferior is a complete CMS system, this is purely aimed at being a bittorrent site.
No blogs, no file attachments, no plugins, no rss feeds, just a tracker and some browse/comment code.

Anyway, 1.1alpha is out.
http://sysdev.org.uk/sysdev.org.uk-1.1a.rar

Torrent comments with bbcode support, public or private support with variations, full admin panel, signups etc.
Couple of things missing in this release, notably a recover script and the smilies/bbtags pages.
Will probably drop those in tommorow.
This one only has a single folder to chmod, it'll do the rest itself.

Good for small invite only sites (add the users manually) or big open trackers.

Thanks for the links pretty cool.

hmm... too many new trackers already

interesting, which language is it coded in? C++, php?

Php

thanx :/

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Php

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I have read that ruby on rails lets you focus on the problem/business plan instead of focusing too much on the implementation at the programming level.

Would ruby on rails apply to an application such as a tracker? If so, are there any plans on implementing this? ;)

Thanks

I'm naming my public tracker isohunt, oh wait......

Ruby on rails is like any framework, full of hype.
The language used is ruby, but using it on rails you're not really bothering with the language, you're relying on the framework to put your stuff together. That's like relying on a program to put your emails together for you, or a bot to make posts for you. It may be able to do it faster, but the results wont be as good.

Besides, it can easily be achieved on PHP with not much code. The first one took 6 hrs and the second one took just over a day to develop so there really is no point to using a framework which will bloat the thing and make it incompatible with most webservers (especially the free ones).

Another consideration is how much you would trust a big open project like ROR. Nearly every big web project I've ever seen has been hugely insecure on almost every level. Writing the code by hand, you can avoid a hell of a lot of problems.

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Originally Posted by rvt

Writing the code by hand, you can avoid a hell of a lot of problems.

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i use the same wording when it comes to women.

http://sysdev.org.uk/sysdev.org.uk-1.1a.rar << that takes me to revolt site rvt :(

Just had time to read torrentfreak again, with the post about diferior.
Looks like that has zero chance of running on any free webspace because it uses XBT as the tracker which requires access to a compiler on the server.
It uses the smarty template engine which bloats and slows all code and logs IPs.

So I wouldn't compare this to it at all. This is aimed at being runnable on free webspace and focussing on the tracker, that's aimed at running on a full web server with shell access and focus is on the CMS side.

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http://sysdev.org.uk/sysdev.org.uk-1.1a.rar << that takes me to revolt site rvt :(

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Not sure what going on with your browser but when I click on that link I get asked if I want to save it as a rar or open it with winrar in firefox. ;)

Sorry, I copied the linkafter posting it on revolt so it has the redirector in there.

http://sysdev.org.uk/sysdev.org.uk-1.1a.rar

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Sorry, I copied the linkafter posting it on revolt so it has the redirector in there.

"redirected again" should work.

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:whistling

http://revolt.org.uk/login.php?retur...rg.uk-1.1a.rar

thats wot i get rvt am im using the latest FF

Hy rvt, my friends:lol: I use certainly everything what you make. I would like get one from all. And please add me your buddylist. Thanks;)

Trying again with that address http://sysdev.org.uk/sysdev.org.uk-1.1a.rar

That works rvt and it worked when I clicked on the previous post that I quoted. :)

Thanks, I'm gonna make the next OiNK!
:D

cheers will have a mes a round with this tracker code :)

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Originally Posted by rvt

Ruby on rails is like any framework, full of hype.
The language used is ruby, but using it on rails you're not really bothering with the language, you're relying on the framework to put your stuff together. That's like relying on a program to put your emails together for you, or a bot to make posts for you. It may be able to do it faster, but the results wont be as good.

Besides, it can easily be achieved on PHP with not much code. The first one took 6 hrs and the second one took just over a day to develop so there really is no point to using a framework which will bloat the thing and make it incompatible with most webservers (especially the free ones).

Another consideration is how much you would trust a big open project like ROR. Nearly every big web project I've ever seen has been hugely insecure on almost every level. Writing the code by hand, you can avoid a hell of a lot of problems.

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Ok, I'll take your word on it :D

I have yet to learn it. Perhaps in the coming month or so:01:

RVT thank you so much, i finally manage to make it
work on another free host and it's just great!

very simple to use and manage, i love it!


few feedbacks for future updates:

* forum
* edit torrents option
* torrent name (right now displaying the file's name automaticly)
* small news box below the logo
* profile page

already waiting for further releases!
simply awesome!

nice work rvt Edit: Seems what i said could be misleading.

could someone please signup and check if my
torrents work? i think there is somthing wrong
there, maybe the problem is when i upload, do
i have to use my website adress/announce.php?

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nice work rvt :) the community owes you alot. next time your bored you could get in touch and help out w/ gazelle perhaps ;)

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seeing as though gazelle is going to be open source and is hoped to be a serious replacement to tbsource i'd hope that what.cd would be seeking input from other site coders. glad to see such a public invitation to help develop gazelle further, not that i doubt whats coding skills.

i will try

I'm not much in the mood for building a replacement for tbdev.
Been playing with that idea for far too long already :P

With all the suing of private sites going on lately, I'm more inclined to build something that doesn't track ratios or IPs, can be run entirely on free (anonymous) webspace and can be setup and run by a novice.
The more trackers there are, the harder it'll be for anyone to stop it.

I currently have a massive dental infection and I'm hopped up on pain pills so anything I post about aims for the thing is unlikely to make sense. My cheek and jaw feel like a balloon right now :lol:

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With all the suing of private sites going on lately, I'm more inclined to build something that doesn't track ratios or IPs, can be run entirely on free (anonymous) webspace and can be setup and run by a novice.
The more trackers there are, the harder it'll be for anyone to stop it.

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that's is exactly what crossed my mind the first
time i saw that thread, and that's why i think it
have the potential to be so great.

after a few days playing with this myself, and i definitly
am a novice, i still can't make it work completly.
i tried several free hosting companies, but i'm still
having a problem with making the torrent work on the
utorrent, i manage to upload it to the site but then it
just show as "failure: database error" on the software.

on other free web hosts i had another problem, after the setup i could register
but never got the email confirmation back, when turning it into an open tracker, i run into a similar problem when uploading, it just
doesnt work on the utorrent and become red and inactive.

any ideas how to fix this?

I'll have more after new year. I'll test it on various free hosts before releasing it this time :P

does it have to do with the permissions of the folders where the data is stored?

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does it have to do with the permissions of the folders where the data is stored?

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all the basic files are set to 0644
the folders to 0755
and only the "file" folder is set to 0777 (+ all the files inside it)

You could change the function error in announce.php to something like:

function error($msg){
if($msg==='Database error') $msg.=': '.mysql_error().' '.__LINE__;
header('Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859');
header('Pragma: no-cache');
die('d14:failure reason'.strlen($msg).':'.$msg.'e');
}

This would output the message "Database error: " followed by the error as reported by mysql and the line number.

Because the error message may be longer than uT wants to display, you should log it with a packet sniffer. http://www.analogx.com/contents/down...twork/pmon.htm is a nice simple one.

any 1 need staff?!?

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You could change the function error in announce.php to something like:

function error($msg){
if($msg==='Database error') $msg.=': '.mysql_error().' '.__LINE__;
header('Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859');
header('Pragma: no-cache');
die('d14:failure reason'.strlen($msg).':'.$msg.'e');
}

This would output the message "Database error: " followed by the error as reported by mysql and the line number.

Because the error message may be longer than uT wants to display, you should log it with a packet sniffer. http://www.analogx.com/contents/down...twork/pmon.htm is a nice simple one.

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ok, i did that and it came back this time with:
"Database error: "unknown column 'time' in 'field list' 84"

i have no idea what it means tough :whistling

EDIT: i think i found the line, if it's in the announce.php:

$res=mysql_query('INSERT INTO `peers` SET `ip`='.dbesc($ip).',`port`='.$ann['port'].',`peerid`='.dbesc($hpid).',`hash`='.dbesc($hhash).',`seed`='.($seeder?'1':'0').',`time`='.$time) or error('Database error');


by the way, after i searched on many freehosts, i finally
find another one that seen to work, but again when
uploading a torrent, it's not active on uttorent
this time with the following message:

"too many redirects (http://google.sk)"

the site is located there:
http://octagon.ofingo.com//index.php

I remember that problem now. I forgot to set up a column called time in the peers table, which is what's causing the issue.

Run this SQL query on your database:
ALTER TABLE `peers` ADD `time` INT NOT NULL ;

That should fix up the error.

I wont be able to do any work on this at all till at least new year, my face now looks like the godfathers, with one huge bubble cheek sticking out :lol:

you'r a genious, it's working great now
thanks a lot, and have a great holliday!

i'll be waiting for updates, next year ;)