I sent a user step by step instructions last night. He said he would post a good guide on it. I would but haven't had time to sit and do it.

 

Woohoo!

 

Using tapatalk

 

 

Check out the first few comments here for a regex workaround (at least enough of one to test).http://www.reddit.com/r/usenet/comments/14krxf/newznab_gotta_pay_to_play/

 

Thanks! I will indeed be checking that out when I begin, I hadn't thought about Reddit as a resource but that's a good place to look. I figure that on this many of us are together and we can help one another out. The paid version appears to have some assistance in this area too and frankly I don't mind paying.

Hi,

 

I've nearly got this working with the paid version - but am struggling with the urlrewrite rules.

 

If I don't add them to the lighttpd.cfg file then the main page works, but the subpages done (as the rewrite isn't being performed), however if I add the url-rewrite.one rules from the misc/urlrewriting folder to the .cfg file then none of the pages work at all.

 

I've got /mnt/cache/.www/ as my document root, and newznab inside that (so the standard newznab/www/ location).

 

Any ideas?

 

(actually grabbing articles etc is working (yay) and I can got to the pages manually by setting url to index.php?page=movies for example, so I know things are fundamentally right..

 

Chris

The period in your path is probably throwing the rules off, try it without. Unless your using an old version of unraid it is deprecated to hide the directory. Best practice is to set the share as cache only. Can't remember right off what beta this was introduced in.

The period in your path is probably throwing the rules off, try it without. Unless your using an old version of unraid it is deprecated to hide the directory. Best practice is to set the share as cache only. Can't remember right off what beta this was introduced in.

 

Hmm, interesting point!

 

I've added www as a cache only share now, changed the simplefeatures WebServer to use /mnt/cache/www as document root and

mv .www www

 

Stopped the webserver, added those re-write rules back in, restarted the webserver, goto stourwalk:81... and 404, got to newznab/www/ ... 404

 

It's definitely those rules, but I'm not sure what should be added/removed (without breaking everything) - in apache you have to set up a vhost, to force it to go to the newznab/www folder by default - shouldn't we have to do the same with lightppd? - or should I have just made the newznab/www folder my document root?

 

 

EDIT:  Changed simplefeatures document root to /mnt/cache/www/newnab/www and it works a treat - guess the rewrite rules only work in the root folder..

 

guess that makes my www cache only share the wrong name

 

It also makes it tricky to run something other than newznab off the same webserver too..

 

Hi,

 

I've nearly got this working with the paid version - but am struggling with the urlrewrite rules.

 

If I don't add them to the lighttpd.cfg file then the main page works, but the subpages done (as the rewrite isn't being performed), however if I add the url-rewrite.one rules from the misc/urlrewriting folder to the .cfg file then none of the pages work at all.

 

I've got /mnt/cache/.www/ as my document root, and newznab inside that (so the standard newznab/www/ location).

 

Any ideas?

 

(actually grabbing articles etc is working (yay) and I can got to the pages manually by setting url to index.php?page=movies for example, so I know things are fundamentally right..

 

Chris

 

I had an issue there to. What works is:

 

put all the newznab directories under /mnt/cache, no periods in the name. Then create shares for all those directories and mark them cache only. I would also set them to not be exported.

 

This will work, it does not look really clean, I would have liked to have all that stuff under one newznab dir in /mnt/cache but that does not seem to work (at least not unless you limit the webroot of your webserver to be newznab only, and I also do not want that)

Alright guys and gals, here's something for you to test. I've put together a Newznab plug-in.

 

Here's what it does and doesn't do:

 

Does:

Download and install newznab

Adjusts the lighttpd.cfg to add the rewrite rules. NOTE: You must still restart the web server for the rules to take effect!

Will not let you install unless you have both the mysql plugin and the simple features web server plug-in.

 

Does not:

Install mysql and web server plug-ins

restart lighttpd automatically so rules take effect

 

I may add these features to the plug-in, but am on the fence about it right now.

 

It is basic right now, I'll add more when I get a chance and with feedback. Right now consider it "alpha" stage, I've tested every which way I can think of, so let me know if you find an issue!

 

newznab_unplugged.plg

 

EDIT: Sorry accidentally posted before I was done(obviously)

 

EDIT 2: Also, haven't adjusted the icon size at all so it throws everything out of whack, will do that tomorrow

For those setting up Newznab in ESXi, any recommendations on VM set up (ram,  cores,  etc)?

This will be my weekend project :-)

 

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For those setting up Newznab in ESXi, any recommendations on VM set up (ram,  cores,  etc)?

This will be my weekend project :-)

 

 

Yeah, this is what I'm doing slowly. Starting with Ubuntu 11.10 but I may move to Mint as my hatred for Unity is strong. I am already running an SQL server for XBMC on another instance. When done I may try to use a single SQL instance for both. I'll be running the paid version, so far I'm still diddling with the Ubuntu install but Mint may just begin tonight instead. So far most of the tutorials I've seen haven't been really clear so I'm still looking. It may not be too bad to build. Oh, I'm giving mine 2Gig and 2 cores with a heft 170Gig thin provisioned disk that may prove overkill. I may move all of my ESX stores to SSD this weekend or next, I expect this VM will be pretty disk intensive

I might try that plugin.

 

Anyone managed to get Sickbeard to search their newznab index successfully? Sickbeard searches keep failing even though those files do exist. At one stage I added some new shows that I new existed on the index, then tried with Sickbeard and it worked. Then a while later it didn't. I've even tried a fresh install of Sickbeard on a separate machine and got the same thing. Not sure what to do now.

Installed the donate nnplus version

 

All was ok no errors

 

I did a binaries_update and it hauled down the headers etc from the 2 groups i selected.

 

When i run the update_releases.php  i get

 

<li class="menu_main">

      <h2>Menu</h2>

      <ul>

 

then it terminates?

 

Any ideas what is going on?

 

Joe

MOD NOTE:

 

Going to lock this thread since a plugin does exist now.

 

You can find the first realease of the plugin here

 

Influencer will likel add this to his repo once it is a little more fleshed out but if you have any questions please use the thread linked above to do that.