transmission-daemon web 403 forbidden

Question

Using transmission-daemon on a Raspberry Pi with Respbian, I always get 403 Forbiden when I try to visit RPi_IP:9091/transmission/ from another computer via local network.

My settings.json:

"rpc-authentication-required": false, 
"rpc-bind-address": "0.0.0.0", 
"rpc-enabled": true, 
"rpc-password":"password",
"rpc-port": 9091, 
"rpc-url": "/transmission/", 
"rpc-username": "pi", 
"rpc-access-control-list":"127.0.0.1,*.*.*.*",
"rpc-whitelist": "127.0.0.1,*.*.*.*", 
"rpc-whitelist-enabled": true,    /* not solved even I change this to true */

How to make the web UI work from non-localhost?

Solution

It it possible, that the transsmision can't find its config file. In that case reads it from other place than /etc/transsmision-daemon/. Try to run it in the foreground instead of daemonizing.

transmission-daemon -f

Then look from where transmission tries to read config file. It can be home directory of the user who runs transmission-daemon.

(...) [2016-08-13 16:18:00.906 UTC] Using settings from "/home/pi/.config/transmission-daemon" (...)

Stop transmission with killall transmission-daemon, then modify this file and run the daemon again.

Note: If it's the case of config file location, then you should check the CONFIG_DIR variable in /etc/default/transmission-daemon.

Comments

[Tomasz Jakub Rup]

<sarsasm>Everything works fine, when You disable security.</sarcasm>

[raul]

Obviously a horrible permanent solution, but for debugging's sake, it lets the administrator determine if the RPC whitelist is the problem or not.