You will be asked to set a username and password to secure the Web UI.
If you install Resilio Sync on a remote Linux server, you need to set up a reverse proxy with Nginx or Apache in order to access the web UI. Type in the following in your web browser address bar to access the Resilio Sync Web UI. Instead, you need to configure things via a web interface. The Linux version of Resilio Sync doesn’t provide with a desktop client. Resilio Sync runs as the rslsync user and the Web UI listens on 127.0.0.1:8888 as specified in /etc/resilio-sync/config.json configuration file. You can enable auto start with: sudo systemctl enable resilio-sync If it’s not running, you can start it with: sudo systemctl start resilio-syncīy default, Resilio Sync won’t start at boot time. Hint: Press Q to gain back control of the terminal after running the above command. You can check its status with: systemctl status resilio-sync Once installed, Resilio Sync will be automatically started. Now install the Resilio Sync package with the following command. Ubuntu 20.04 and 18.04 will automatically update package index, so you don’t have to manually run sudo apt update. Sudo add-apt-repository "deb resilio-sync non-free" (The add-apt-repository command is provided by the software-properties-common package.) sudo apt install software-properties-common
Next, run the following commands to add the Resilio Sync repository. Open up a terminal window and run the following command to download the public key. First, we need to import Resilio Sync’s public key so that the package manager can verify the Resilio Sync package. Resilio Sync has a repository for Ubuntu. Installing Resilio Sync on Ubuntu 20.04 and Ubuntu 18.04 From Official Repository Instead, you just need to install Resilio Sync on end devices to sync files via the BitTorrent protocol, so you will not be bound by the storage limit of a server. Unlike Dropbox or NextCloud, Resilio Sync does not require a central server to store files. Resilio Sync is a free, fast, peer-to-peer file sharing and syncing tool released by Resilio, Inc, available for Linux, FreeBSD, Mac, Windows, Android, iOS, Amazon Kindle Fire and NAS devices.
This tutorial will be showing you how to install Resilio Sync (formerly BitTorrent Sync) on Ubuntu 20.04 and 18.04.