Set up a seedbox (on DigitalOcean – Ubuntu) really quick

README.md

Introduction

• This script lets you set up and use a temporary DigitalOcean droplet to download torrent files.
• Once downloaded, they can be streamed down to your local machine.
• This uses transmission-cli for the torrent client, and nginx to serve files.

Create a droplet on DigitalOcean

• This assumes that you have a DigitalOcean account, have created a droplet, and seedbox-setup.sh is present in the current directory.

• Copy the IP address of the droplet, and use it for the following commands:

$ scp seedbox-setup.sh root@my.ip.address.here:/tmp/

Setup on Remote Machine

• You can SSH in using ssh root@my.ip.address.here

$ sh /tmp/seedbox-setup.sh

• When the first config file (for transmission) opens in Vim, change the values for these keys:

Key	Value
download-dir	"/usr/share/nginx/html"
rpc-authentication-required	"false"
rpc-whitelist-enabled	"false"

• Type <esc>:wq to quit Vim.
• The next config file that opens is the nginx config. Inside the http block, add autoindex on;
• Type <esc>:wq to quit Vim.

Using the seedbox

• To add/manage torrents, go to http://my.ip.address.here:9091/
• To view/download files, go to http://my.ip.address.here/

Destroying the seedbox

• After the download is done, run tugboat destroy seedbox locally.

seedbox-setup.sh

sudo apt-get -y install software-properties-common vim
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:transmissionbt/ppa
sudo apt-get -y update
sudo apt-get -y install transmission-cli transmission-common transmission-daemon nginx
sudo vim /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json
sudo vim /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
sudo chmod 777 /usr/share/nginx/html 
sudo rm /usr/share/nginx/html/index.html
sudo /etc/init.d/transmission-daemon reload
sudo /etc/init.d/nginx restart