Install Transmission on CentOS

transmission is a torrent client. This come with a web GUI, that make it easy to installed on a remote server with no X-Windows. To install transmission on CentOS server, run

yum install -y transmission-daemon transmission-cli

Allow Web Access

To access transmission web GUI, you need to white list your IP address. To do this, first stop tranmission

service transmission-daemon stop

Edit file

vi /var/lib/transmission/.config/transmission/settings.json

Find

    "rpc-whitelist": "127.0.0.1",

Replace with

    "rpc-whitelist": "127.0.0.1,YOUR_IP_ADDR_HERE",

YOUR_IP_ADDR_HERE – replace with your actual IP address.

Start transmission

service transmission-daemon start

You will be able to access web GUI at

http://YOUR_SERVER_IP:9091

Downloaded files are stored in folder

/var/lib/transmission/Downloads