XBT Tracker is a BitTorrent tracker written in C++. It's designed to offer high performance while consuming little resources (CPU and RAM). It's a pure tracker, so it doesn't offer a frontend. You can use any (PHP) frontend you want.
XBT Tracker listens on port 2710. The announce URL is http://...:2710/announce. The debug URL is http://...:2710/debug. The scrape URL is http://...:2710/scrape. The statistics URL is http://...:2710/statistics. An experimental UDP tracker extension is also supported via announce URL udp://...:2710.
The tracker stores stats in a MySQL database/table. Version >= 5 is required. Create a database (xbt) and a user (xbt) with password for the tracker and use these in the next step. Create the tables defined in xbt_tracker.sql.
The following commands can be used to install the dependencies on Debian. The g++ version should be at least 3.4.
apt-get install cmake g++ libboost-date-time-dev libboost-dev libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-program-options-dev libboost-regex-dev libboost-serialization-dev libmysqlclient15-dev make subversion zlib1g-dev
The following commands can be used to install some of the dependencies on CentOS, Fedora Core and Red Hat. The g++ version should be at least 3.4.
yum install boost-devel gcc-c++ mysql-devel subversion
Enter the following commands in a terminal. Be patient while g++ is running, it'll take a few minutes.
svn co http://xbt.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/xbt/misc xbt/misc svn co http://xbt.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/xbt/Tracker xbt/Tracker cd xbt/Tracker ./make.sh cp xbt_tracker.conf.default xbt_tracker.conf
Enter the following commands in a terminal.
./xbt_tracker
Enter the following commands in a terminal.
killall xbt_tracker
The tracker reads it's configuration from the file xbt_tracker.conf and the SQL table xbt_config. There is no need to insert default values into this table.
| name | default value |
|---|---|
| announce_interval | 1800 |
| anonymous_connect | 1 |
| anonymous_announce | 1 |
| anonymous_scrape | 1 |
| auto_register | 1 |
| clean_up_interval | 60 |
| daemon | 1 |
| debug | 0 |
| full_scrape | 0 |
| gzip_debug | 1 |
| gzip_scrape | 1 |
| listen_ipa | * |
| listen_port | 2710 |
| log_access | 0 |
| log_announce | 0 |
| log_scrape | 0 |
| offline_message | |
| pid_file | xbt_tracker.pid |
| read_config_interval | 60 |
| read_db_interval | 60 |
| redirect_url | |
| scrape_interval | 0 |
| table_announce_log | xbt_announce_log |
| table_files | xbt_files |
| table_files_users | xbt_files_users |
| table_scrape_log | xbt_scrape_log |
| table_users | xbt_users |
| write_db_interval | 15 |
If auto_register is on, the tracker will track any torrent. If it's off, the tracker will only track torrents (identified by info_hash) that are in the xbt_files table.
insert into xbt_files (info_hash, mtime, ctime) values ('', unix_timestamp(), unix_timestamp()); // insert
update xbt_files set flags = 1 where info_hash = ''; // delete
If anonymous_announce is on, the tracker will serve any user. If it's off, the tracker will only serve users (identified by torrent_pass) that are in the xbt_users table.
The torrent_pass field in xbt_users contains the 32 char torrent_pass. The announce URL contains the same torrent_pass: /<torrent_pass>/announce