Webserver

Setting up Webserver with aMule

Webserver with aMule 2.0.0-rc1 or later

• Untar the sources and copy src/aMule.tmpl and src/webserver/ into your ~/.aMule/ directory. The following (run from the sources directory), should do so:

$ cp -r src/aMule.tmpl src/webserver/ ~/.aMule/

• If you installed aMule from rpm, then you can do:

$ cp /usr/share/amuleweb/aMule.tmpl ~/.aMule/

$ cp -r /usr/share/amuleweb/webserver/ ~/.aMule/

• Go to "Preferences"->"Remote Controls" (in aMule) and...
  • Enable "Accept External Connections".
  • Enable "Use TCP ports instead of unix local sockets".
  • Enter a password for external connections. If you don't do this, amuleweb will not communicate with amule.

NOTE: On some early aMule 2.0.0-rcX versions the above options weren't available (or didn't work). If you are using such aMule version and you don't wish to upgrade, then do the following:

Shutdown aMule if it is still running.

Edit your ~/.eMule file, locate the [ExternalConnect] section and change:

AcceptExternalConnections=1 <-- To enable aMule listening for External Connections.

ECUseTCPPort=1 <-- To use the TCP port. Very important since Unix sockets are disabled.

ECPassword=ca3c365274907c6fd527068788e14639 <-- To find the MD5 string for your password, do:

$ echo -n yourpasswordhere | md5sum | cut -d ' ' -f 1

ca3c365274907c6fd527068788e14639

• Restart aMule

• Go to your "Preferences"->"Remote Controls" (in aMule) and setup your passwords here for External Connections and webserver login.

NOTE: When you change your webserver and External Connections ports here, make sure to restart aMule.

NOTE: that "Enable Webserver" has no effect and will be renamed in 2.0.0rc8. Webserver is always enabled as long as you have External Connections enabled.

NOTE: For users running aMule Daemon you have to edit the .eMule file like shown above. For a way to setup a password check the 1.2.8 aMule HowTo. You can still do it in the same way.

• Now you're done! You are ready to run amuleweb and connect to it.

Stefanero

Webserver with aMule 2.0.0 or later (starting from CVS 2005.02.27)

• For users running the monotlithic aMule application:
  • Go to "Preferences"->"Remote Controls" (in aMule) and...
    • Enable "Accept External Connections".
    • Enable "Use TCP ports instead of unix local sockets".
    • Enter a password for external connections. If you don't do this, amuleweb will not communicate with amule.

NOTE: When you change your webserver and External Connections ports here, make sure to restart aMule.

• For users running the aMule daemon:
  • Shutdown aMuled if it is still running.
  • Edit your ~/.eMule file, locate the [ExternalConnect] section and change:
    • AcceptExternalConnections=1 <-- To enable aMule listening for External Connections.
    • ECUseTCPPort=1 <-- To use the TCP port. Very important since Unix sockets are disabled.
    • ECPassword=ca3c365274907c6fd527068788e14639 <-- To find the MD5 string for your password, do:

$ echo -n yourpasswordhere | md5sum | cut -d ' ' -f 1

ca3c365274907c6fd527068788e14639

• Restart aMuled

NOTE: In aMule version 2.0.0 and later you don't need to do any copy/link of webserver files.

Skin support

Webserver now looks for its files in a number of places:

• $HOME/.aMule/webserver/[skin name]/
• And default install locations, such as:
  • /usr/share/amule/webserver/[skin name]/
  • /usr/local/share/amule/webserver/[skin name]/

Default skin (template) name is 'default'.

If, after installing aMule, webserver refuses to run because of not being able to load template, you can run amuleweb -d to see where it tries to find the template. If you didn't use --prefix= when configuring aMule, please report this situation on our forum, indicating your OS and the place where make install put your webserver/ directory.

Thanks to Stefanero, from who I shamelessly stole a lot from his tutorial.

GonoszTopi

Connecting to amuleweb

To run aMuleWeb run amuleweb on a terminal. For more information about running aMuleWeb check the aMuleWeb document.

Once aMuleWeb is running, open a web browser and connect to:

http://host:port

where host stands for your host's name (try with localhost) and port stands for the aMuleWeb port (NOT the External Connections port).

For example: http://localhost:4711

Standard ports

The ports can be set to anything, but this are the most used (the standard ones):

• External Connections: 4712
• amuleweb: 4711

Make sure you do not confuse with what each of them is.

Where to report problems and questions?

For Problems or Questions just report on http://forum.amule.org forum or join IRC channel #amule at irc.freenode.net