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Gazelle Article 3: Anonymous Links, Ticket System, and a Freeleech Tool

October 05, 09 by MFSL   2,504  views  

We’re back with Part 3 of our exclusive series on how to install Gazelle. In this article, we explain how to add a script to anonymize all outgoing links through anonym.to. Also up, we show how to incorporate a ticket system so that beta testers and members can report site bugs and provide feedback. Last - but not least - we explain how to add a global freeleech to the tracker with the ability to enable/disable it through the Gazelle Toolbox utility.

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Gazelle Article 2: Invites, Minor Edits and Small Add-ons

September 26, 09 by MFSL   3,080  views  

In this second article on how to install Gazelle, we’ll explain how to implement Invite Codes, configure the Donations, and BT client Whitelists. These last few days I’ve done a few minor edits in and around the code and did one small change to the invite system. Also, our twitter feed for the yet-to-be-announced tracker is running at http://twitter.com/SVTracker/. Invites codes and more fun stuff will be posted!

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Gazelle Article One: Server Config / Gazelle Install

September 24, 09 by MFSL   3,824  views  

Ed. Note: A good friend of ours is in the process of setting up a new Gazelle music tracker, and generously offered his expertise. What’s different about this series of tutorials, is that there will actually be an operational tracker at the end of it. So if you ever wanted to witness the inner workings on how to install, setup & configure a Gazelle tracker from scratch, then this series is for you. Let the documentation begin!

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How to Create a Torrent Tracker, Part 4: Search Engine

September 07, 09 by Hangman   3,630  views  

One of the most important parts of a torrent site is definitely the search engine. It is probably the first thing people are going to use, and a bug free search form will greatly improve user experience. In this tutorial, we are going to implement a Browse section including torrent details columns, paging, and a form which will be used to filter results based on search queries.

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How to Create a Tracker, Part 3: Torrent & User Details

August 17, 09 by Hangman   3,631  views  

In this third part of the tutorial (Parts I & II here), our goal is to show some information about our torrents and users. We’ll go through a bunch of tips and snippets that any developer may find useful while developing a torrent site, such as some util functions to display relative times, friendly sizes and a tree with files and folders.

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How to Create a Torrent Tracker: Part 2 - Upload Form

July 15, 09 by Hangman   4,722  views  

In the previous part of this guide, we have seen how to run the XBTT tracker on our server and built a basic torrent download system with passkey support. Now we need a way to upload our torrents, so in this second part we’ll see how to create a fully working upload form featuring validation of metainfo .torrent files, including checks such as MIME type, private flag, announce URL, and torrent hash to detect duplicates.

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How to Create a Torrent Tracker with PHP & XBTT: Part 1

June 24, 09 by Hangman   8,331  views  

Our good friend Hangman over at Valadiléne.org is writing a series of tutorials beginning with Part 1 on How to Create a Torrent Tracker with PHP and XBTT, and wanted to share his knowledge with FSF readers. If there’s enough demand, the series will be expanded to include future coding goodies including ratio system, upload form with torrent validation, and search engine. We recommend all aspiring tracker developers to stay tuned into his blog; surely there’s more interesting tidbits to come. Hangman is also the brain behind the new tracker vgmTorrents.net, which is actually based on WordPress as a frontend…

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SoftMP3 & SweDVDR Trackers Release ‘Source Code’

May 23, 09 by sharky   5,257  views  

In the wake of ThePirateBay trial and subsequent aftermath related to the risks of hosting a BitTorrent tracker in Sweden (or, even being a denizen and hosting it elsewhere), most major Nordic private trackers have now all but complied with AntiPiratByran. However, two such trackers are having the last laugh - SweDVDR and SoftMP3 have willfully made their tracker source code available for anyone who wishes to set up their own tracker. Just don’t do it in Sweden.

Ironically, the source code for both trackers is publicly available on BitTorrent.

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Gazelle Codebase Hits RapidShare, MegaUpload

September 22, 08 by sharky   4,892  views  

What.cd and Project Gazelle are already offering SVN (subversion) access to their popular Gazelle codebase, so it comes as no surprise that it landed at popular 1-click hosters such as RapidShare and MegaUpload. So what does all this mean? Not much, really - the RC1 (Release Candidate 1) of Gazelle is currently available publicly through SVN anyways. The drawback is that Gazelle is not directly upgradeable via these download links. Links can be found here:

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Everything You Need to Start Up a Great Private Tracker

September 14, 08 by sharky   6,402  views  

These days, setting up a private BitTorrent website is almost as easy as setting up a blog. Simply grab a domain name, purchase some hosting (that supports torrenting), and install yourself a script such as TBDev, TBSource, or even Gazelle. Tweak it up a little, add some custom images, and voilà - an instant torrent site. It’s done all the time. But to launch a successful private tracker, there’s more to it than that. No, we’re not talking about badgering members into donating to keep it running - you need an angle that the real pros are using. This includes the entire A-to-Z gamut of IRC services such as PreBots, PreNET and IRCd - not to mention total anonymity with offshore bank accounts & offshore hosting.

It’s not often that true sceners will divulge the secrets for developing a private tracker and turn it into something really special - and even profitable. This is "in-the-know" knowledge that takes years of internal scene experience to hone - rarely is it information easily parted with. For the first time ever (that we’ve ever seen), we’ve found a select group of sceners who are more than willing to help the aspiring private tracker owner achieve the ultimate BitTorrent site.

Want to know more? Inquire here at this IRC channel - irc.p2p-net.eu/#programming. The OPs will be more than happy to answer any questions. Here’s a condensed look (and explanation of) just some of the outlined services that are being offered:

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