AWS EC2 (sc1) Debian 11 qBittorrent-nox installation

To install qBittorrent-nox on AWS EC2, we first need disk space. I used sc1 for disk space. The main purpose of using sc1 is to minimize the monthly cost. For example, 125 GB sc1 disk cost is 2$ per month.

qBittorrent-nox

First, let’s mount the disk.

sudo mount /dev/nvme1n1 /mnt/mydisk

Let’s check if the disk is mounted.

df -h /mnt/mydisk

To mount the partition permanently, you need to make an entry in the /etc/fstab file. Follow these steps:

1. Get the UUID of your partition by running:

sudo blkid /dev/nvme1n1

It will show output like this:

/dev/nvme1n1: UUID="XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX" TYPE="ext4"

1. Copy the UUID value.
2. Open the /etc/fstab file with a text editor as root. Here, I'm using nano:

sudo nano /etc/fstab

1. Add a new line at the end of the file using the following format:

UUID=XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX /mnt/mydisk ext4 defaults 0 0

1. Save and exit the file (in nano, press Ctrl + X, then Y, and then Enter).
2. Test if the /etc/fstab file is correctly configured by running:

sudo mount -a

If you don’t see any error messages, your partition will be mounted automatically when the system starts or reboots.

Step 2 — set permissions for new files and directories created in /mnt/mydisk

For Debian/Ubuntu based systems:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install acl

For RHEL/CentOS based systems:

sudo yum install acl

Now, set ACL to provide read, write, and execute permissions to all users by running:

sudo setfacl -Rm d:u::rwx,d:g::rwx,d:o::rwx /mnt/mydisk
sudo setfacl -Rm u::rwx,g::rwx,o::rwx /mnt/mydisk

This will ensure that all future files and directories created in /mnt/mydisk will have read, write, and execute permissions enabled for all users.

Step 3 — Install qBittorrent-nox on Debian 11 server

sudo apt update
sudo apt install qbittorrent-nox

qBittorrent-nox (without X) is meant to be controlled via its Web UI which is accessible as a default at http://localhost:8080. The Web UI access is secured and the default account username is admin with adminadmin as default password…

Systemd service

Create a systemd service file for qBittorrent-nox that restart it automatically on system reboot:

sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/qbittorrent-nox.service

[Unit]
Description=qBittorrent-nox
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=forking
ExecStart=/usr/bin/qbittorrent-nox -d --webui-port=8080
Restart=on-failure

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

If there’s another service running on port 8080, just change to another available port and set the -d --web-port=xxxx accordingly.

Then run following commands to enable and start this service:

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable qbittorrent-nox
sudo systemctl start qbittorrent-nox

Check its running status by;

sudo systemctl status qbittorrent-nox

sudo systemctl status qbittorrent-nox

That’s all. Successfully completed qBittorrent-nox installation on AWS EC2 with sc1 disk. If you have any questions or errors, feel free to comment and I will try to help as much as I can.