retracker.local

Provider-side torrent traffic optimizer - retracker.local in one lightweight PHP script for actual PHP-8 versions. Only web-server with PHP and MySQL needed.

Installation

Create new database from dump announce/mysql.sql and mysql user with select / insert / delete permissions to created DB. Place web-scripts and mainly announce directory to root directory of your retracker.local virtual host. Edit config.php anf setup correctr DB-user and DB-password data.

Manage

Watch table tracker for new peers and hashes. Table with peers placed in memory - this nice for performance and privacy. In high-load environment watch for memory usage by mysqld and allocate enought volume of memory to retracker.local host.

In difficult cases enable debug log in config

Configs and command example.

Nginx

server {
        listen 80;
        listen [::]:80;

        server_name retracker.local;
        root /var/www/html_retracker;

        access_log /dev/null;
        error_log  /tmp/retracker-error.log;
        index index.html index.htm index.php;

        location = / {
                try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
        }

        location ~ \.php$ {
                include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
                fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php8.2-fpm.sock;
        }

        location = /announce/ann-list.php {
                include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
                fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php8.2-fpm.sock;
                allow 127.0.0.1/32;
                deny all;
        }

        location = /ann {
           rewrite ^/ http://retracker.local/announce/ permanent;
        }

}

MySQL

CREATE DATABASE retracker;
CREATE USER 'retracker'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'my-database-password';
GRANT SELECT,INSERT,UPDATE,DELETE ON retracker.* TO 'retracker'@'localhost';

# mysql -uroot -p -D retracker < ./announce/mysql.sql

crontab

/usr/bin/wget -O /dev/null "http://retracker.local/announce/?run_gc=1"

Security

Change run_gc key for more secret value or restrict this queries by nginx config to trusted IP.