‘ Create your own BitTorrent site ’

Gazelle RC2 Unleashed, Now Available For Download

March 01, 10 by sharky   7,146  views  

Big news for Gazelle fans & tracker devs - it’s been more than a year since What.CD developers had released an updated version of Gazelle; release candidate 2 has finally arrived. Citing "thousands of changes", What.CD has already been running on RC2 for quite some time. For the first time ever, Gazelle is now publicly available (non-svn) as a download for anyone looking to create a tracker, or else just tinker around with the source code.

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

October 05, 09 by MFSL   5,269  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   5,738  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   7,068  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   7,051  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   6,561  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   8,297  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   19,294  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   8,796  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   7,291  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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