On Sat, 2009-04-04 at 02:13 -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 10:51 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan > <pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 21:47 -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > >> On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 6:18 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan > >> <pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote: > >> > On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 19:06 -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > >> >> Does anyone have the web interface working for KTorrent when forwarded by UPnP? > >> > > >> > Late in responding as I've been travelling, but (exactly for that > >> > reason) I left Ktorrent running and opened my firewall to the web > >> > interface so I could control it from afar. I have to say it worked > >> > really well, except for suddenly not responding in the last couple of > >> > days (which appears to have been related to a plasma crash since the > >> > machine didn't lose connectivity). > >> > > >> > I have UPnP turned on so it can agree with the router on what ports to > >> > open. Is that what you're asking about? > >> > >> I was asking specifically about the web interface... did you have to > >> open up a port on your router/firewall to the ktorrent machine for > >> it's web interface? Or did you check the box to let UPnP handle that? > > > > I checked the box in the Ktorrent Settings dialogue (this has nothing to > > do with the web interface, it's just for normal BT use). > > > > I don't normally run web services on this machine so I also used > > system-config-firewall to open a specific TCP port, and configured that > > same port in the router (a Belkin) to allow HTTP in. This means > > specificing that port instead of 80 when browsing from the Web of > > course. I also set a strong password. > > I see, what I expected to happen was after checking UPnP on the web > interface, it would ask the router to forward that port to it. > > That did not happen. AFAIK it isn't supposed to. The UPnP stuff is strictly for telling the router which ports Ktorrent itself is going to use for BT traffic. As I said, it has nothing to do with the Web interface. poc
