[joeroberts]

when you make the torrent just use that as your announce

Bump: OK I found that I did not set the .htaccess to work like that so you well need to do some small edits
first is to change announce in include/config,php
find

$announce_url = $siteurl."/announce.php";

and make it

$announce_url = $siteurl."/announce";

and now open your .htaccess and replace it with

# $Author: djechelon $
# $Date: 2006/09/11 21:49:14 $
# $Last Revision: 2005/09/25 1:17 $

# deny most common files except PHP
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^announce announce.php
RewriteRule ^home-page-([0-9_+]*) index.php?page=$1
RewriteRule ^home index.php
RewriteRule ^forum phpBB.php
RewriteRule ^forum-([a-zA-Z0-9_+]*) phpBB.php?page=$1
RewriteRule ^user-profile-([a-zA-Z0-9_+]*) user.php?op=profile&id=$1
RewriteRule ^export-([a-zA-Z0-9_+]*) download.php?id=$1
RewriteRule ^home-cat-([0-9_+]*) index.php?cat=$1
order allow,deny
deny from 72.172.88.59
deny from 72.172.88.51
deny from 72.172.88.53
deny from 72.172.88.60
deny from 67.71.50.221
allow from all
<FilesMatch "\.(inc|tpl|h|ihtml|sql|ini|conf|class|bin|spd|theme|module|torrent)$">
deny from all
</FilesMatch>


<Limit GET POST>
  Order Allow,Deny
  Allow from all
</Limit>
<Limit PUT>
  Deny from all
</Limit>

#Add MIME-Types
AddType application/x-bittorrent .torrent

#HTTP Error Management: works ONLY on root directory. Add yourself your subdirectory
#IE if phpMyBitTorrent is installed in http://www.yoursite.com/mydir change
#/httperror.php.... to /mydir/httperror.php...
#ErrorDocument 400 /httperror.php?errid=400
#ErrorDocument 401 /httperror.php?errid=401
#ErrorDocument 403 /httperror.php?errid=403
#ErrorDocument 404 /httperror.php?errid=404
#ErrorDocument 500 /httperror.php?errid=500
#RewriteRule ^home/page/([a-zA-Z0-9_+]*) index.php?page=$1

there are extra codes in there that well make search rewrite work to