Setting up docker, qbittorrent, and gluetun with protonVPN - seems to
work cept wrong pw on web-ui
reddit / selfhosted

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igotabridgetosell · 2023-11-22 03:49

Hey all,

I think I got most of it to work using this guide:
[https://fossengineer.com/selfhosting-qBittorrent-with-docker-and-
VPN/](https://fossengineer.com/selfhosting-qBittorrent-with-docker-
and-VPN/)

I get the qBittorrent UI but login doesnt seem to be admin/adminadmin,
it says invalid username or password.  I haven't been able to log into
this yet.  I saw a guide saying I can just remove  the following lines
from conf file:

password=         # this only appear on qBittorrent version   # this
only appear on qBittorrent version ≥ 4.2.0

THE PROBLEM IS THOSE LINES DO NOT EXIST IN MY CONFIG FILE.  My config
files are at /home/myuserid/docker/qBittorrent/qBittorrent.conf and it
only has Adress=\* and ServerDomains=\* for WebUI\\.  How do i reset
it?  I originally had my config files in /home/docker/ but reinstalled
thinking it was due to permission issues.  my qBittorrent.conf has
-rw-r--r-- permissions right now.  I tried changing it to 755 prior to
reinstall and it still didn't seem to update.  on my shell that I
compose on, it says \[custom-init\] No custom files found, skipping...

​

Question #2 is my docker shell that i compose seems to say the right
things?  I get LSIO ascii art for qbittorrent.  gluten says dns ready,
healthcheck healthy, vpn 3 commits behind the msot recent latest, and
my vpn ip and city.  but why does this keep connecting to random
servers?  how do i specify to connect to my local ones?  there's no
line for that in the .yaml unlike the markus qbittorrentvpn one(which
i also tried but failed miserably).

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igotabridgetosell · 2023-11-22 03:51

Yo I tried to setup my ubuntu server w/o much knowledge in linux over
the weekend.  Got jellyfin with duckdns setup and now stuck on
docker/qbit.  This is so frustrating.  Please help.

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pid226 · 2023-11-22 10:16

Yeah 4.6.1 seems to have issues with the default password.  My fix was
to revert back to 4.6.0, set a unique password and upgrade to 4.6.1
and it worked.  Details here https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-
qbittorrent/issues/268

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Trustworthy_Fartzzz · 2023-11-22 13:53

Just ran into this myself. I fixed it by disabling auth for my local
network in the config file. IMPORTANT: Stop the container first
because it overwrites config files on shutdown.

I was then able to log in and set the password. After that the login
worked fine.

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igotabridgetosell · 2023-11-22 18:48

Nice, now as a linux noob I have no idea how to go about doing that
without the command lines lol.