BitTorrent tracker for the Apache2 web server
Debian Package: libapache2-mod-bt
“mod_bt is a BitTorrent tracker for the Apache Web server. It is written in C and runs as an Apache 2.x module. It is possible for mod_perl or PHP to directly access the tracker’s information; no need to download and bdecode scrape URLs. The tracker is fully configured from within Apache’s own configuration file. The goal of mod_bt is to seamlessly integrate Bram Cohen’s BitTorrent protocol with Apache so that any Webmaster who serves up large files can shift the burden of bandwidth onto its clients with as little hassle as possible.”
I been checking out this torrent tracker and I do like what I see. The tracker is biult into apache2 as a module and all its configuration are done in one file:
/etc/apache2/mods-available/bt.conf
Looking a the debian history of this package there been pachtes but it look like the develement of the module is on hold. On the Developer web page he say on a To Do list that “Implicit infohash registration by placing a .torrent in a directory (Probably a mod_perl2 handler that sits on top of /announce)“. This would be real benefit. The standard Bittorrent uses this method.
I ended up killing the test tracker with the tool btt_infohash - which edit infohash data in a mod_bt tracker database. I could not get the hang of how you use this tool.
I hope the this tracker software will become one for the main one out there. I like what I see and it would be a great benifit for Bittorrent world.