Once you've done that, if you're lucky then your chose client will be able to use the generated cert to start serving https with a green lock directly. Step one is to learn how to use LetsEncrypt's certbot program to request TLS certificates. Now, you don't want just anyone to be able to see this web interface, right? So you'll need authentication and encryption. Now you can access the torrent client's web interface at :8000 This runs a program on one of your local machines that will update the DNS record for to be whatever your current public IP address is. Now you need to set up Dynamic DNS (DDNS). net, or whatever, or get a free subdomain from FreeDNS or similar, let's say you get. What you need to do now is acquire a domain name (either pay for a. Now if you go into your router's settings and forward port 8000 to 192.168.0.42, the web interface will be available at 1.2.3.4:8000.Īnd finally, your ISP may change your public IP at any time, say it changes to 1.2.3.4. So if you're running the torrent client on 192.168.0.42 and the browser on 192.168.0.43, the browser can connect to the web interface at 192.168.0.42:8000.įurthermore, your ISP also probably assigns you a public IP address, say 1.2.3.4. Machines on your LAN also have private IP addresses. So if the client is running on the same machine as the browser, localhost:8000 will point to the web interface. And unless the client is on port 80 (the default http port), you'll need something like 'localhost:8000' (for the sake of discussion, let's say that the torrent client is on port 8000). When you open 'localhost' in your browser, it just means 'connect to the machine I'm currently on'.

Transmission, Deluge, qBittorrent, and others all have web interfaces. Don't take this the wrong way, but based on the way you're asking this question, you're probably in over your head.

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