Table of Contents

1. Intro
2. Summary
3. Access Information
4. Configuration

qBittorrent is a bittorrent client programmed in C++ / Qt that uses libtorrent (sometimes called libtorrent-rasterbar) by Arvid Norberg. It aims to be a good alternative to all other bittorrent clients out there. qBittorrent is fast, stable and provides unicode support as well as many features. This Docker image is using the headless configuration with the web frontend enabled, as well as OpenVPN to ensure a secure and private connection to the Internet, including use of iptables to prevent IP leakage when the tunnel is down. Privoxy is also included to allow unfiltered access to index sites, to use Privoxy please point your application at qbittorrent:8118. (credit: binhex)

For the non-vpn version of this app, just leave "VPN enabled" set to "NO". If you do use the VPN Option, please add the following IP when connecting Sonarr/Radarr "172.18.0.55". If you do NOT use the VPN Option, use the hostname "qbittorrentvpn" to connect Sonarr/Radarr.

qBittorrent will run in a default configuration with OpenVPN and Privoxy disabled. Some settings are already configured for you, plus a P2P Blocklist (credit: John Tyree).

See section 4 for more advanced configurations including how to configure your VPN.

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† Privoxy allows your other Apps to use the qBittorrent's internet connection including its VPN configuration.

Some essential settings are auto-configured by default when the app is deployed.

The Default login is configured as follows:

The VPN is not enabled by default. To use it, the following must be performed:

1. Place your .ovpn file in /opt/appdata/qbittorrent/openvpn
2. Populate the VPN_USER variable with your VPN username.
3. Populate the VPN_PASS variable with your VPN password.
4. Set VPN_ENABLED to yes
5. (Optional) Configure additional OpenVPN settings with VPN_OPTIONS

If you cannot connect to your container after enabling VPN, check your logs. If you do not see [info] qBittorrent process listening on port 8098 then there may be a problem with your VPN configuration.

qBittorrent can use Jackett as a search provider. See the instructions and download the search provider.

qBittorrent uses a feeds.json file located under opt/appdata/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/config/rss

The contents should be similar to the following example:

{
  "feeds": [
    {
      "name": "The New Books",
      "url": "http://rss.domain.example/author/some-guy.rss",
      "savepath": "/mnt/hd/books/Some Guy",
      "category": "Books",
      "filters": [
        {
          "field": "title",
          "regex": ".*epub.*"
         }
      ]
    },
    { ... }
  ]
}

In case you are upgrading to PTS or change the paths and it's causing problems, here are the default paths to assist you! Categories do not need to specify a path, by default it uses downloadPath/categoryName when not set!