Blog Torrent 0.92 Preview Release
http://www.blogtorrent.com/
http://www.downhillbattle.org/

Blog Torrent is software that makes it much easier to share and
download files using the BitTorrent protocol.  It's goal is to let you
post video or other large files to your web site as easily as you post
text.

Requirements: A webserver with PHP 4 or later

  Server sharing requires a Linux server or a UNIX or Mac OS X server
  with a Python interpreter.

To install Blog Torrent:

1) Unzip the program
2) Upload the files to your web server
3) Nothing. For most people, THAT'S IT.

Just point your web browser to the part of your site where you
uploaded Blog Torrent.  For example, if you installed Blogtorrent in
public_html/torrents, just point your browser to
http://yourwebsite.com/torrents.

If you happen to be running Blog Torrent on a server that doesn't have
permission to modify files, you will receive a message telling you
that you have to create the data directories for Blog Torrent by
hand. This is usually very easy. You need to:

1) Make directories named "torrents/" and "data/"
2) Change the permissions on those directories to be writable by the
   web server

On a typical server, you might do this by connecting with a FTP client
and typing something like:
mkdir torrents
mkdir data
chmod 777 torrents
chmod 777 data

Giving the directories "777" permissions will allow anyone on the
server to full access those directories. If you share a server with
others, they may be able to tamper with you Blog Torrent data files if
you use these settings. There may be other settings more appropriate
for your server. Please, contact your system administrator if you have
any questions about permissions.

Once you've installed Blog Torrent, you should create a user account
by going to newuser.php, then configure Blog Torrent using
settings.php.

Server Sharing:

Blog Torrent can share files from your server, as well as from your
home computer. This increases performance and avoids firewall related
slowdowns at the expense of using more disk space and bandwidth on
your server. You can either automatically share all files as they are
uploaded or manually enable server sharing on a per-file basis. Most
importantly, once your server has a full copy of the file, you don't
need to continue sharing the file from a personal computer, there will
always be at least one seed available.

Server seeding only works on Linux, Mac OS X, and UNIX servers.  Blog
Torrent uses a slightly modified version of the main Python BitTorrent
client to share files from the server, so a Python interpreter is
required.  A stripped down Python interpreter for Linux x86 is
included in the Blog Torrent distribution, so server sharing should
work automatically on most Linux servers. If you have a Mac OS X or
UNIX server, you'll need to tell Blog Torrent where it can find
Python.

Transferring Servers, Upgrading:

Transferring a Blog Torrent installation between servers or upgrading
a Blog Torrent installation by copying files over from the old
installation may not work. In the future, we may add support for these
things, in the meantime, please, use a fresh install every single time.

Common problems:

 * Older versions of the clients had lots of bugs. If you have client
   problems, try uninstalling your client, then re-installing it using
   a recent version of Blog Torrent

 * Blog Torrent requires that PHP sessions be setup correctly in order
   to track logged in users. If they're not setup, it won't work. See:
   http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1074748&group_id=109524&atid=654202

* Blog Torrent requires that PHP's mail sending functionality works
  correctly. See:
  http://us2.php.net/manual/en/ref.mail.php

Please, report any other bugs you find to the Source Forge bug
tracker: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=109524&atid=654202

Blog Torrent is Copyright 2004 Nicholas Nassar, except where otherwise
noted.

Blog Torrent is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA