Deluge as you all know is a very popular torrent client in ubuntu . It works flawlessly and can copmletely replace utorrent which is used in ubuntu . Now most of us have deluge installed on main machines which are probably headless machines or we probably sometimes wish to remotely access the deluge client say from another machine over the internet using a web browser . Deluge WebUI helps you do just that . So here's how you set it up :
Step 1 : Go to the Terminal and type sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list and add the following two lines

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/deluge-team/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/deluge-team/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main


NOTE : Replace Intrepid with your version of ubuntu like jaunty etc.

Step 2 : After you have deluge installed( sudo aptitude install deluge ) , go to the Terminal and type sudo aptitude install deluge-webui
Step 3 : Now to launch the WebUI just type deluge --ui web
Step 4 : Thats it , that would start the WebUI service , to access the webUI service locally just open http://127.0.0,1:8112 . TO launch it via LAN type http://x.x.x.x:8112 where x.x.x.x is your LAN ip , the same applies via the internet for which x.x.x.x will be your WAN IP ( you can get this at www.whatismyip.com ) .
NOTE: TO access via the internet you need to open port 8112 on your router
Here are a few screenshots :





1 comments

KARTHIK said... @ December 12, 2009 at 6:03 PM

Nice Info Prashanth .Thanks

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