rutorrent on readonly filesystem

shwetha17

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Hello!

I run ruTorrent on Voyage, which is a Debian derived OS for embedded devices. My web server is Apache2 and I have PHP5 installed.

I use /var/www for rutorrent as install directory. The download user is called copycat, the download directory, which is a rw filesystem, is mounted under /home/copycat/rtorrent/download.

Now the problem is, it only works if the root filesystem is mounted rw.

I have tried to mv rutorrent/share to the rw partition and have a link point to this directory, but that doesn't work. I have the impression the Apache doesn' t like any kind of link.

Any suggestions on how I can make it work so that "/" is mounted ro and just the necessary folders reside on a rw mount?

Thanks! I'm not really experienced, when it comes to setting up a web server...
 

shwetha17

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It must be mounted with the "exec" option. Oh boy!! I still got to learn a lot...

Thanks for your reply anyway!