torrentpier/torrentpier

TorrentPier. Bull-powered BitTorrent tracker engine

v2.8.0 2025-06-21 19:16 UTC

README

TorrentPier

Bull-powered BitTorrent tracker engine

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๐Ÿ‚ About TorrentPier

TorrentPier โ€” bull-powered BitTorrent Public/Private tracker engine, written in PHP. High speed, simple modifications, load-balanced architecture. In addition, we have a very helpful official support forum, where it's possible to get support and download modifications for the engine.

๐ŸŒˆ Current status

TorrentPier is currently undergoing a major 3.0 rewrite to remove all legacy code and modernize the codebase to current PHP standards. Backward compatibility is not a priority - this release focuses on moving forward with clean, modern architecture. If you want to delve deep into the code, check our issues and go from there.

Note

TorrentPier 3.0 will introduce breaking changes. Existing installations should remain on 2.x versions until ready to migrate to the new architecture.

โœจ Features

  • Rich forum with browsing/moderation tools
  • High-load capable, heavily configurable announcer
  • Scrape support
  • FreeLeech
  • TorrServer integration support
  • BitTorrent v2 support
  • Event-based invite system
  • Bonus points
  • Polling system
  • PM/DM system
  • Multilingual support (Russian and English are currently fully supported, with others in the future)
  • Atom/RSS feeds
  • ... and so MUCH MORE!

๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธ Demo

Note

Demo resets every 24 hours!

๐Ÿ”ง Requirements

  • Apache / nginx (example config) / caddy (example config)
  • MySQL 5.5.3 or above (including MySQL 8.0+) / MariaDB 10.0 or above / Percona
  • PHP: 8.3 / 8.4
  • PHP Extensions: mbstring, gd, bcmath, intl, tidy (optional), xml, xmlwriter
  • Crontab (Recommended)

๐Ÿ’พ Installation

For the installation, select one of the installation variants below:

Quick (Clean install) ๐Ÿš€

Check out our autoinstall repository with detailed instructions.

Note

Thanks to Sergei Solovev for this installation script โค๏ธ

Quick (For web-panels) โ˜•๏ธ

  1. Select the folder where you want TorrentPier installed
    cd /path/to/public_html
  2. Download the latest version of TorrentPier
    sudo git clone https://github.com/torrentpier/torrentpier.git .
  3. After completing, execute the command below and follow the instructions
    php install.php
  4. Voila! โœจ

Manual ๐Ÿ”ฉ

  1. Install Composer
  2. Run the following command to create the TorrentPier project
    composer create-project torrentpier/torrentpier
  3. Check our system requirements
  4. After, run this command in the project directory to install Composer dependencies
    composer install
  5. Edit database configuration settings in the environment (.env.example), after, rename to .env
  6. Create a database and run migrations to set up the schema
    php vendor/bin/phinx migrate --configuration=phinx.php
  7. Provide write permissions to the specified folders:
    • data/avatars, data/uploads, data/uploads/thumbs
    • internal_data/atom, internal_data/cache, internal_data/log, internal_data/triggers
    • sitemap
  8. Voila! โœจ

Tip

You can automate steps 4-7 by running php install.php instead, which will guide you through the setup process interactively.

Important

The specific settings depend on the server you are using, but in general we recommend chmod 0755 for folders, and chmod 0644 for the files in them.

Additional steps ๐Ÿ‘ฃ

  1. Edit these files:
    • favicon.png (change to your own)
    • robots.txt (change the addresses in lines Host and Sitemap to your own)
  2. Log in to the forum using the admin/admin login/password, and finish setting up via admin panel. Don't forget to change your password!

๐Ÿ” Security vulnerabilities

If you discover a security vulnerability within TorrentPier, please follow our security policy, so we can address it promptly.

๐Ÿงช Testing

TorrentPier includes a comprehensive testing suite built with Pest PHP. Run tests to ensure code quality and system reliability:

# Run all tests
./vendor/bin/pest

# Run with coverage
./vendor/bin/pest --coverage

For detailed testing documentation, see tests/README.md.

๐Ÿ“Œ Our recommendations

  • It's recommended to run cron.php. - For significant tracker speed increase it may be required to replace the built-in cron.php with an operating system daemon.
  • Local configuration copy. - You can override the settings using the local configuration file library/config.local.php.

๐Ÿ’š Contributing / Contributors

Please read our contributing policy and code of conduct for details, and the process for submitting pull requests to us. But we are always ready to review your pull-request for compliance with these requirements. Just send it!

Contributors

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๐Ÿ’ž Sponsoring

Support this project by becoming a sponsor or a backer.

OpenCollective sponsors OpenCollective backers

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๐Ÿ“ฆ Versioning

We use SemVer for versioning. For the versions available, see the tags on this repository.

๐Ÿ“– License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.