XxAcielxX/docker-rutorrent

rtorrent is a popular bittorrent client & rutorrent Web-UI based front-end for it.

This is a clone of the crazy-max/docker-rtorrent-rutorrent image with the following modifications:

• Stop creation of /downloads{/completed,/temp} directories
• Disabled Healthchecks
• Changed Default Downloads directory to /downloads
• Disabled move of completed torrents
• Tuned off PEX & system.umask.set (in .rtorrent.rc) during bootstrapping
• Set TopDirectory in rutorrent config.php to /downloads, to prevent access to root directory inside the container

Supported Architectures

These images support multiple architectures such as x86-64, armhf and arm64 using Docker manifest.

When you pull xxacielxx/rutorrent or ghcr.io/xxacielxx/rutorrent, you will get the arch for your system.

The supported architectures are:

Architecture	Tag
x86-64	amd64-latest
armhf	arm32v7-latest
arm64	arm64v8-latest

Usage

Here are some example snippets to help you get started creating a container.

docker-compose (recommended)

Compatible with docker-compose v2 schemas.

services:
  rutorrent:
    image: xxacielxx/rutorrent:latest
    container_name: rutorrent
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Europe/London
    volumes:
      - </path/to/rutorrent/data>:/data
      - </path/to/rutorrent/passwd>:/passwd
      - </path/to/downloads>:/downloads
    ports:
      - 6881:6881/udp
      - 8000:8000
      - 8080:8080
      - 9000:9000
      - 50000:50000
    restart: unless-stopped

docker cli

docker run -d \
  --name rutorrent \
  --ulimit nproc=65535 \
  --ulimit nofile=32000:40000 \
  -e PUID=1000 \
  -e PGID=1000 \
  -e TZ=Europe/London \
  -p 6881:6881/udp \
  -p 8000:8000 \
  -p 8080:8080 \
  -p 9000:9000 \
  -p 50000:50000 \
  -v </path/to/rutorrent/data>:/data \
  -v </path/to/rutorrent/passwd>:/passwd \
  -v </path/to/downloads>:/downloads \
  --restart unless-stopped \
  xxacielxx/rutorrent:latest

Volumes

• /data: rTorrent / ruTorrent config, session files, log, ...
• /passwd: Contains htpasswd files for basic auth (web-ui, rpc & webdav)
• /downloads: Downloads directory

⚠️ Note that the volumes should be owned by the user/group with the specified PUID and PGID. If you don't give the volumes correct permissions, the container may not start or function properly.

Ports

• 6881 (or RT_DHT_PORT): DHT UDP port (dht.port.set)
• 8000 (or XMLRPC_PORT): XMLRPC port through nginx over SCGI socket
• 8080 (or RUTORRENT_PORT): ruTorrent HTTP port
• 9000 (or WEBDAV_PORT): WebDAV port on /downloads
• 50000 (or RT_INC_PORT): Incoming connections (network.port_range.set)

Updating

Via Docker Compose

• Update all images: docker-compose pull
  • or update a single image: docker-compose pull rutorrent
• Let compose update all containers as necessary: docker-compose up -d
  • or update a single container: docker-compose up -d rutorrent
• You can also remove the old dangling images: docker image prune

Via Docker CLI

• Update image: docker pull xxacielxx/rutorrent
• Stop the running container: docker stop rutorrent
• Delete the container: docker rm rutorrent
• Recreate a new container with the same docker run parameters as instructed above (if mapped correctly to host folders, your /data, /passwd, /downloads folders and settings will be preserved)
  • You can also remove the old dangling images: docker image prune

For full configurations and details, kindly visit crazy-max/docker-rtorrent-rutorrent.