How to Install Resilio

Sync on Ubuntu 16.04

and Ubuntu 16.10
 Last Upated: May 30, 2018  Xiao Guo-An (Admin) 5
Comments  Ubuntu

Resilio Sync, formerly known as BitTorrent Sync, is

a free, fast, peer-to-peer file sharing and syncing tool
released by Resilio, Inc. It’s available for Linux, Mac,
FreeBSD, Windows, Android, iOS and NAS
devices. The latest stable version was 2.4.4, released
on December 9, 2016. In this tutorial, we’re going to
look at how to install Resilio Sync on Ubuntu 16.04
and Ubuntu 16.10.

Installing Resilio Sync on

Ubuntu 16.04 and Ubuntu 16.10
via Official Repository

Open up a terminal window and edit the sources.list

file with nano or your preferred text editor.

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

Append the following APT line at the end of this file.

deb http://linux-packages.resilio.com/resilio
 -sync/deb resilio-sync non-free

Save and close the file.

In order for APT to authenticate packages from the

above repository, we need to import Resilio Sync’s
public key. First download the public key with wget .

wget https://linux-packages.resilio.com/resil
io-sync/key.asc

Then import the public key with apt-key .

sudo apt-key add key.asc

Now let’s update local package index and install

Resilio Sync.

sudo apt update

sudo apt install resilio-sync

Managing Resilio Sync

To start Resilio Sync, use systemctl command.

sudo systemctl start resilio-sync

And enable auto start at boot time using the following

command:

sudo systemctl enable resilio-sync

Check its status.

systemctl status resilio-sync

Once running, The Resilio Sync daemon will listen on

127.0.0.1:8888 as specified in /etc/resilio-
sync/config.json configuration file.

Now you can type the following in your web browser

address bar to access the Resilio Sync Web UI.

127.0.0.1:8888

You will be asked to set a username and password to

secure the Web UI.
Then choose a name for your device and click Get
started .

Next, click the Add Folder link on the upper left

corner to choose your shared folder.
You might encounter the following error message.
That’s because Resilio Sync is running as rslsync
user.

Don’t have permissions to write to selected f

older.

Let’s say you selected your home folder /home/your-

username/ as the shared folder. To fix the above error,
all you need to do is to grant permissions on your
home folder to the rslsync user with the following
command.

sudo setfacl -R -m "u:rslsync:rwx" /home/your

-username

The above command won’t change the owner of the

shared folder. The owner has the same permissions as
usual. What it does is to grant read, write and execute
permissions to one more user, namely rslsync .

If you see this error:

 sudo: setfacl: command not found

Then install the acl package and re-run the above

setfacl command.

sudo apt install acl

Now you should be able to add your home folder as

the shared folder.

Using Resilio Sync on Ubuntu

16.04, 16.10 Server

By default, Resilio Sync only listens on 127.0.0.1:8888.

So if you install Resilio Sync on Ubuntu 16.04/16.10
server, you won’t be able to access the Web GUI from
your local computer. To be able to access the Web
GUI from a remote connection, we can set up Nginx
reverse proxy for Resilio sync.

First install Nginx on Ubuntu 16.04, 16.10 server.

sudo apt install nginx

Start Nginx and enable auto start.

sudo systemctl start nginx

sudo systemctl enable nginx

Then create a server block file under

/etc/nginx/conf.d/ .
 sudo nano /etc/nginx/conf.d/rslsync.conf

Paste the following lines in the file. Replace

sync.yourdomain.com with your real domain name.
You should also add an A record that point your
domain name to the IP address of your Ubuntu 16.04,
16.10 server.

server {
listen 80;
server_name sync.yourdomain.com;

access_log /var/log/nginx/sync.yourdomain.c
om.log;
location / {
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8888;
}
}

Save and close this file. Reload Nginx.

sudo systemctl reload nginx

Now in your browser’s address bar type your domain

name and you should be able to access the Web GUI.

Secure the Resilio Sync Web

GUI by Installing a TLS
Certificate

To prevent hackers sniffing username and password,

you can acquire and install a TLS certificate. As you
may already know, Let’s Encrypt now provide free
TLS certificate which can be easily obtained and
installed.

Here’s how to install and configure Let’s Encrypt TLS

certificate with Nginx on Ubuntu 16.04, 16.10 server.

Install letsencrypt

sudo apt install letsencrypt

Create a directory for Let’s Encrypt verification.

sudo mkdir /var/www/sync.yourdomain.com/

Set www-data as the owner of this directory.

sudo chown www-data:www-data /var/www/sync.yo

urdomain.com/ -R

Add the following directive in

/etc/nginx/conf.d/rslsync.conf file.

location ~ /.well-known/acme-challenge {
root /var/www/sync.yourdomain.com/;
allow all;
}

Save and close the file. Reload Nginx for the changes
to take effect.

sudo systemctl reload nginx

Then issue the following command to obtain
certificate. Replace red text with your actual data.

sudo letsencrypt certonly --webroot --agree-t

os --email your-email-address -d sync.yourdom
ain.com -w /var/www/sync.your-domain.com/

Within a few seconds, you should see a congrats

message like below which means the certificate is
successfully obtained.

IMPORTANT NOTES:
- Congratulations! Your certificate and chai
n have been saved at

/etc/letsencrypt/live/sync.yourdomain.com/ful
lchain.pem. Your cert
will expire on 2017-05-09. To obtain a new
version of the
certificate in the future, simply run Let'
s Encrypt again.
- If you like Let's Encrypt, please consider
supporting our work by:

Donating to ISRG / Let's Encrypt: https:

//letsencrypt.org/donate
Donating to EFF: https:
//eff.org/donate-le

Next, let’s configure Nginx TLS/SSL settings. Open

/etc/nginx/conf.d/rslsync.conf again.
 sudo nano /etc/nginx/conf.d/rslsync.conf

Change the content of this file to the following.

Replace sync.yourdomain.com with your real domain
name.

server {
listen 80;
server_name sync.yourdomain.com;
return 301 https://$server_name$request_uri
;
}
server {
listen 443 ssl http2;
server_name sync.yourdomain.com;

ssl_protocols TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;

ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/sync.
yourdomain.com/fullchain.pem;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/s
ync.yourdomain.com/privkey.pem;

access_log /var/log/nginx/sync.yourdomain.c
om.log;
location / {
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8888;
}

location ~ /.well-known/acme-challenge {
root /var/www/sync.yourdomain.com/;
allow all;
}
}
Save and close the file. Test Nginx configuration and
reload.

sudo nginx -t

sudo systemctl reload nginx

Go to your Resilio Sync Web GUI again, you will find

HTTP connection is automatically redirected to
HTTPS secure connection.

Cheers!

I hope this tutorial helped you install Resilio Sync on

Ubuntu 16.04 and Ubuntu 16.10 desktop or server. As
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