Only for Windows

Portable means that you can:

• Have an installation on an external medium (like a USB drive).
• Plug it into any PC and use it as is.
• You don’t need to install anything on the PC.
• You don’t need to change the setup.

Use the official portable release

Download the “Windows Portable” ZIP from the download page and unpack it to any location where you have write access, for example a USB drive.

Start SABnzbd by running the included portable.cmd. This starts SABnzbd with its settings file (sabnzbd.ini) stored inside the SABnzbd folder itself, so the installation is fully self-contained.

Any extra command line parameters you give to portable.cmd are passed on to SABnzbd. For example, to set the web interface address and port:

portable.cmd -s 127.0.0.1:8080

Tips

• Make sure that all folders in the configuration are relative paths, starting from the folder where the INI file is.
• Use 127.0.0.1, localhost or 0.0.0.0 as the web server address.
• Choose a port number that is free on all systems (8080 or 8088 is a good choice).

Firewalls

You may encounter software firewalls which you will have to teach about SABnzbd. SABnzbd has two types of network access: port 563 or 119 for communicating with the Usenet server, and port 8080 (or whatever else you choose) to communicate with the web browser.