How to use qBittorrent as a tracker
Since qBittorrent v2.5.0, qBittorrent ships a fully-functional tracker that allows you to share files with your friends way more easily.
qBittorrent's embedded tracker is disabled as a default to save resources. If you wish to use it, you need to enable it from the advanced preferences panel.
As a default, the tracker URL is: http://your_public_ip:9000/announce
If you want your tracker to be accessible from Internet (i.e. outside your LAN), you will probably have to configure your router to forward the tracker port to your machine (default: 9000).
Once you have configure your router, you can test that your configuration is working by:
- Running qBittorrent
- Enabling the embedded tracker
- Go to http://www.canyouseeme.org/:
- Type your tracker port (e.g. 9000)
- Press the "Check" button
- You should get a position result or this means that your router is not properly configured.
- Enable the embedded tracker from advanced preferences
- Run the torrent creation tool in qBittorrent
- Select the local files you wish to share
- Type the URL of your local tracker in the tracker list (http://your_public_ip:9000/announce)
- You can check http://www.whatsmyip.org/ http://www.whatsmyip.org/ to know your public IP Address
- Check the "Start seeding after creation" box
- Press the "Create and save..." button
- Save the torrent file wherever you like
- Send this newly created .torrent files to your friends and they will be able the download the files you are sharing using any Bittorrent client.
Stop qBittorrent and add the following lines to ~/.config/qBittorrent/qBittorrent.conf:
Advanced\trackerEnabled=true Advanced\trackerPort=9000
under the [Preferences] section.