How to create and upload a torrent to CGTorrent.com
Oct 5th, 2008 by Nex
This is a step by step guide on how to create and upload a torrent to CGTorrent.com, using uTorrent.
To get uTorrent, please visit their site at uTorrent.com.
- Log into your CGTorrent account, and click on the green “Upload” link in the menu bar at top.
- Select the data asked to you on the form (Catagory,File Name,Description)
- Create a directory somewhere in your computer, and give it a name related to the files you wish to share. Place inside the files you want to share
- Open uTorrent, and from it’s menu, click on File -> Create new torrent.
You’ll be presented with the following screen:
- Click on “Add directory” and select the directory you created on step 3
On the “Trackers:” field, add the tracker starting with http from the tracker list presented to you on the torrent upload page (uTorrent does not support UDP trackers at the time of writing this tutorial)
On the “Comment” field, add a comment about your torrent (optional)
Check the “Start seeding” and “Private torrent” fields
- Click on “Create and save as”, and save the torrent somewhere in your computer. Then click on “Close”
- The torrent will appear on uTorrent’s list. If the torrent is stopped, right click on it and select “Force start” from the menu.
You will get an error message that reads “Failure: Torrent is not authorized to use this tracker”, because we have not uploaded the torrent to CGTorrent yet. Ignore it for now.
- Return to CGTorrent, and on the “Torrent file” field, click on the “browse” button. Select the .torrent file you created on step 6.
- Add a name and a description. Please keep in mind that the better the information that you provide in your description, the more likely it is that people will download it. Then click on the “Finish upload” button.
If everything is correct, you’ll be redirected to the details page of your newly uploaded torrent. - Now, we wait 3 minutes to give time to the tracker to add the torrent to it’s pool. After waiting 3 minutes, go to uTorrent, right click on the torrent you just created, and select “Update tracker” from the menu. If you waited long enough, you should get “Tracker status: Working” instead of the error from step 7
- We are done! Now we just leave uTorrent seeding the file for a few hours/days so some people have the chance to download the files.
