Aria2c daemon Ubuntu16.04

gistfile1.sh

# should install aria2c from latest source
# requirements: sudo apt install libgnutls-dev nettle-dev libgmp-dev libssh2-1-dev libc-ares-dev libxml2-dev zlib1g-dev libsqlite3-dev pkg-config libcppunit-dev autoconf automake autotools-dev autopoint libtool
#sudo apt-get install -y aria2

sudo useradd aria2
sudo mkdir /aria2
sudo mkdir /aria2/dl
sudo mkdir /aria2/log
sudo touch /aria2/aria2.session
sudo bash -c "cat <<EOT > /aria2/aria2.conf
daemon=true
continue=true
enable-rpc=true
rpc-listen-port=6800
rpc-listen-all=true
check-certificate=false
auto-file-renaming=false
allow-overwrite=true
dir=/aria2/dl
rpc-user=aria2
rpc-passwd=aria2
file-allocation=none
disable-ipv6=true
max-download-limit=0
max-overall-download-limit=0
max-concurrent-downloads=4
max-connection-per-server=8
log=/aria2/log/aria2.log
log-level=error
summary-interval=120
timeout=600
retry-wait=30
max-tries=50
save-session=/aria2/aria2.session
input-file=/aria2/aria2.session
save-session-interval=10
disk-cache=50M
bt-load-saved-metadata=true
bt-save-metadata=true
EOT"

sudo chown -R aria2:aria2 /aria2

sudo bash -c "cat <<EOT > /etc/systemd/system/aria2.service
[Unit]
Description=Aria2c download manager
Requires=network.target
After=network-online.target
    
[Service]
Type=forking
User=aria2
RemainAfterExit=yes
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/aria2c --conf-path=/aria2/aria2.conf
ExecReload=/usr/bin/kill -HUP $MAINPID
RestartSec=1min
Restart=on-failure
    
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOT"

sudo systemctl enable aria2
sudo systemctl start aria2

# open http://binux.github.io/yaaw/demo/#path=ws://aria2:aria2@ip:port/jsonrpc
# notice that the path parameter in the url should be updated properly

# yet another web frontend: https://github.com/mayswind/AriaNg
# yet yet another web frontend: https://github.com/NemoAlex/glutton