bittorrent web ui

[Entity`]

I'm looking to build a small server to act as my bittorrent pc. I also want to be able to manage it with some sort of slick (java or flash) web ui since it is meant to be headless and used only for bittorrent. I already have the hard drives (4x 1TB) and appropriate SATA controller (the mobo doesn't have any SATA ports) and so on and so forth.

I'm trying to build a web interface for my server so I can manage it wherever I go. Is it possible to build a web ui that acts like a normal (somewhat) desktop, or would it be better just to ssh login and use the text based gui? And if it's do-able, what bittorrent client would be compatible to such a UI? Should I just give up and use Vuse (I don't really like it because it seems too bloated), or hunt down an old version of Azureus? Thanks for any help.

[volkswagner]

Check out TorrentFlux (http://www.torrentflux.com/) for a web based torrent server/client. Check out Webmin (http://www.webmin.com/) for everything else.

[enriqueaf]

I have done that at my home, I have used transmission (http://www.transmissionbt.com) it has a native web client, which in my opinion is better than TorrentFlux, which I have also used. And if you can is better to not left the web client opened directly to the world if not use an ssh tunnel.

[Entity`]

Thanks very much for your help volkswagner, those links will help me out a lot.

enriqueaf, perhaps that would be a good idea (i may do that since I'm the only one who would have any reason to access it), but I'm doing this (partly) for a college class as a way to get hands on experience.

[grantemsley]

On my home server I use Vuze (you can turn off the Vuze interface and go back to the old azureus one) inside VNC.

On my other server, I use ruTorrent, which is a frontend to rtorrent, a cli based torrent client.

http://code.google.com/p/rutorrent/

It works wonderfully.

[Udayakiran]

Try using rTorrent and some web UI plugin if the server will not have any GUI.

Else, try using transmission. I heard it works very well. I think you can also use uTorrent+wine+webUI plugin, though i'm not sure the webUI plugin will work on wine. Maybe some other user can confirm it?

[MJWitter]

From those I have used, Deluge has been the best mix of ease of use and features.