phpmybittorrent on a desktop PC
 

I wanted to try out phpmybitorrent for a public tracker site I'm setting up(hosted on my PC) so I went ahead and downloaded the software and extracted it.
The documentation is not very clear What is being referred to here exactly [After extracting the archive, upload the contents of the html folder to your root web directory. The name of this folder varies depending on your hosting provider, but in many cases it’s named “httpdocs”].
Where shall I copy the files in the HTML folder to??
I would appreciate any help.
Thank you.

hi
 

once you extract them you may end up with html folder with all the files and folder source code inside :yes
the files and folders inside the html folder want adding inside your httpdocs/or in other cases, www,folder depending on yoursetup

:drink:

Hey there,
Thanks for replying.
You seemed to completely miss my main concern(maybe I wasnt clear enough :friend: )
I'm on Lubuntu 13.04 Desktop version with all the required packages(for PMBT) installed FYI.
Is there anyway you could tell me exactly where I should copy the files(in the HTML folder) to?(ask me for any info you want about the PC)
Thank you.

hi
 

nope defo didnt miss if you read above it tells you

"httpdocs/or in other cases, www,folder depending on yoursetup"

how the fudge do i know what setup your using os,cp xamp cramp crabs i have no info from you except it dont work lol and its on your pc
if you need cheap cpanel hosting i can also help

lamp/phpmyadmin webserver setup?

Thanks for replying.
I've PHPmyadmin with apache webserver , php5 , xml and mysql installed on a desktop edition.

look for a folder called www that well be your root dir

Thanks a lot Joe,
Was waiting for ya.
Will try that when I get back to home and report back to ya.
Edit: I think its /var/www you're referring to ,right?

it can be
var/httpdocs
var/www
var/http
var/public_html

It all depends on how you set up you appache M8:drink:

Hey Joe,
Thanks for clearing that.
This one's prolly a stupid q but I will ask away.
Do I need PHPmyadmin during the setup part of PMBT or can I completely uninstall it to avoid any confusion?

you well need it to make the data base its self as far as the tables go the setup well do that.

Thanks for replying.
I copied the files to /var/www and chmod'ed the file permissions to 777.
But when I access localhost/setup/index.php
It returns a 404.
(Do I need to point something towards localhost or create a database and user in PHPmyadmin or anything like that?)

Open up httpd.conf (in your Apache/conf directory), find DocumentRoot and set it to be your the directory where you want your web site root. If you are migrating from IIS you can put something like this:

DocumentRoot "c:/inetpub/www (dir to www)"

Hey there,
Edited the documentroot to point towards /var/www but it still doesnt work this time it displays a 500 error.
P.S. It would be nice if you could share your IRC info or messenger, anything like that coz it will help me resolve this issue quicker[Just gimme 10 mins of your precious time :-)]

http 500 error is a internal error.

A majority of these issues sound like server configuration issues, rather than the source code.

If you could let us know your exact requirements, current os, etc we would be much better advised to help you.

Massive credit to Joe for being so patient (no disrespect, but he really doesn't need to be bothered with this).

Kind regards
Phogo

Yea Joe is really a great guy(Props to him for keeping up with my stupid questions), my friend hooked me up with some servers where I'm now hosting the site and everything went great.

Bump: Oh I did a somewhat major mistake , I didnt pay attention to the disabling captcha part and now it doesnt allow me to login , any fixes?
And how shall I make the tracker a public one(or is it public by default?)
Thanks a lot in advance.

to disable captcha go into data base to torrent_config and set gfx_check to false
to make site public you do this in admin=>settings

Hey Joe,
Thanks for replying.
It has a privat mode option and I gotta disable that to make it a public tracker, right?

yes