Spotweb can be a bit of a pain to setup (especially the initial database population). Below I’ll explain how to get things running properly.
The instructions below you assume you have setup an Apache2, PHP, and MariaDB server.
Create a directory in which we’ll store the Spotweb site:
mkdir -p /var/vhosts/domain-name/www
Download and install the latest release of Spotweb:
cd /tmp wget https://github.com/spotweb/spotweb/archive/1.3.9.tar.gz tar xzf 1.3.9.tar.gz cd spotweb-1.3.9 cp * -R /var/vhosts/domain-name/www
Create an Apache configuration file for Spotweb:
nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/domain-name.conf
Populate with the settings below (assumes SSL):
<VirtualHost 0.0.0.0:80> ServerName domain-name Redirect / https://domain-name/ </VirtualHost> <VirtualHost *:443> ServerName domain-name SSLEngine on SSLCertificateFile /var/vhosts/domain-name/ssl/domain-name.crt SSLCertificateKeyFile /var/vhosts/domain-name/ssl/domain-name.key SSLCertificateChainFile /var/vhosts/domain-name/ssl/ca-cert.crt DocumentRoot "/var/vhosts/domain-name/www" <Directory /> AllowOverride All Require all granted </Directory> </VirtualHost> ExpiresActive On ExpiresDefault "access plus 4 hours" ExpiresByType application/javascript A900 ExpiresByType application/x-javascript A900 ExpiresByType text/javascript A900 ExpiresByType text/html A90 ExpiresByType text/xml A90 ExpiresByType text/css A900 ExpiresByType text/plain A62 ExpiresByType image/gif A14400 ExpiresByType image/jpg A14400 ExpiresByType image/jpeg A14400 ExpiresByType image/png A14400 ExpiresByType image/bmp A14400 ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash A3600
Enable the newly created site:
a2ensite domain-name.conf
Enable the Apache module expires (this allows the ExpiresActive On command to work):
a2enmod expires
Spotweb requires a few additional PHP modules, we need to download and enable them:
apt-get install php-curl php-zip php-xml php-gd
To ensure Spotweb uses the proper date and time we need to define our timezone in PHP (used by Apache):
nano /etc/php/7.0/apache2/php.ini
date.timezone = America/Edmonton
To ensure Spotweb uses the proper date and time we need to define our timezone in PHP (used by the command line):
nano /etc/php/7.0/cli/php.ini
date.timezone = America/Edmonton
Because our Spotweb Apache configuration file has the AllowOverride All directive, we can create an .htaccess file which will allow other scripts (Sonarr, Radarr, and Lidarr) to perform lookups:
nano /var/vhosts/domain-name/www/.htaccess
Populate as required:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !api/
RewriteRule ^api/?$ index.php?page=newznabapi [QSA,L]
Now we need to change the owner of the Spotweb directory:
chown -R www-data:www-data /var/vhosts/domain-name
Restart Apache:
service apache2 restart
Complete the setup of Spotweb using a browser:
https://domain-name/install.php
After Spotweb is configured delete the installation file:
rm /var/vhosts/domain-name/www/install.php
Now we can populate Spotweb via the CLI:
php /var/vhosts/domain-name/www/retrieve.php
I typically run the above command on the console as it can take a few hours to complete.
Create a directory in which log files will be saved:
mkdir /var/vhosts/domain-name/log
Perform an ownership change (as any downloaded content and directories created was done by the user root and not www-data):
chown -R www-data:www-data /var/vhosts/domain-name
Create a cron job (scheduled task) for the user www-data. This allows Spotweb to self-update:
crontab -u www-data -e
In the example below the cron job will execute every 30 minutes:
*/30 * * * * /usr/bin/php /var/vhosts/domain-name/www/retrieve.php >> /var/vhosts/domain-name/log/retrieve.log