Aria2 is a convenient command line downloader that works like curl/wget on http/ftp, but it also support many other protocols, and it aria2 natively multipart download!
Instructions for Aria2 on Entware hosted by Lighttpd (defaults to Port 81): https://www.snbforums.com/threads/aria2-webui-on-asuswrt-merlin.63290/
Instructions for Nginx on Entware (defaults to Port 82): https://hqt.ro/nginx-web-server-with-php-support-through-entware/
Instructions for Aria2 on Entware: https://hqt.ro/aria2-download-manager-through-entware/
There are some minor details that changed.
# Install the base (core) software first
# This example is for entware
opkg install aria2
# Download the package from Github zip to /opt/tmp
wget -c -O /opt/tmp/webui-aria2.zip https://github.com/ziahamza/webui-aria2/archive/master.zip --no-check-certificate
# Make sure you have some web server installed (nginx, httpd, apache, etc.)
# Nginx HTTP server instructions
# https://hqt.ro/nginx-web-server-with-php-support-through-entware/
# Make sure you know what {Webroot} is
# for Nginx, {Webroot} is /opt/share/nginx/html
# Unpack to the zip file at /opt/tmp and clean up the zip
unzip /opt/tmp/webui-aria2.zip -d /opt/tmp/ && rm /opt/tmp/webui-aria2.zip
# Move/rename to desired location
mv /opt/tmp/webui-aria2-master {Webroot}/aria2
Nginx defaults to port 82 (change it to where you set your web server). The WebUI can be accessed at http://your_server_here:82/aria2/docs.
/doc is inconvenient, so I created a redirection by placing this index.html under aria2’s root folder:
<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0; url='./docs'" />
The RPC host breaks out of the box because the you’ll need to make a few adjustments to /opt/etc/aria2.conf before you can start the service without crashing it (so the WebUI of course will complain with a lot of cryptic error messages):
# Basic Options
dir={Change it to a viable folder that has enough space if /opt/var/aria2/downloads
is is not big enough}
# RPC Options
# Unless you want to get a certificate, you'll need to use unsecure mode:
rpc-secure=false
# Change your rpc-secret to be matched in "Connection Settings" in the WebUI
rpc-secret=whatever_passphrase_you_like
After you get the config file correct
# Start the installed aria2 service $ (the package already have a service wrap over aria2c) # aria2 seem to assume it's port 81 so the init.d script has a "S81" prefix, but aria2 does not control the port, where you put the WebUI in http. So it's just a cosmetic filename naming convention. /opt/etc/init.d/S81aria2 start
If the service wouldn’t start (some bad configs might have the service reported as “done” and after you check again in a second with “S81aria2 check“, it’ll report as “dead”. You can debug by looking at what went wrong at /opt/var/log/aria2.log. That’s how I figured I need to turn off “rpc-secure” parameter.
