How to Install QBittorrent with a VPN on OMV/Docker

In this video we'll look at How to Install QBittorrent with a VPN on OMV/Docker.

The process is pretty easy and straightforward, but you'll need a VPN account in order for this to work. I'll be using Private Internet Access (PIA).

Here is the full tutorial on my blog:

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[Cris-xxjx]

Thanks for the video! For anyone having troubles with the WebUI not showing up, putting VPN_ENABLED=true instead of "yes" solved it for me

[manirule]

I've been banging my head against the wall trying to run my -arrs on the same machine as qbittorrent and its vpn, this fixes the issue so easily. Thanks for making this video!

[theorganizationXII]

Can you please make a video where you show how can we connect a container (qbittorrent or any other) to a container with a vpn client? This video is great, but it would be even better to have the containers separated

[TrixXxAs]

I am new to this space, and I was looking to a solution like this for some weeks now. Your solution was easy to understand and configure. Thank you very much!

[GlenBland]

It appears that there is no arm version of this repo. can you please point me in the right direction for getting any torrent with PIA vpn working together on arm (raspberry pi) I currently have qbittorrent installed and working, but it's the base version with no vpn. I could install openvpn separate, but I don't know how to route one container through another. I'm also using nginx proxy manager and cloudflare as you have shown in other videos. I'm getting closer to my goal, but this is a hard step for me.

[joshpoe]

my OVPN file was US California.ovpn - caused tons of issues ... removed the space.... BUENO! you rock dude thanks @DB Tech ... now to try to get my cameras set up...

[billvervelde]

Thanks for the tutorial DB! Toward the end of the video, how are you verifying that the VPN is working via IP? Could you send directions on how to verify if the VPN is actually working or not? Also, is there a way to put more volumes into the stack so we can choose which folders to download to? When I tried to add more volumes I got some error like, "expected end of stack.."? Thank you for these videos!

[hubble]

So, hoping someone will know how to fix this. Pia doesn't seem to offer those legacy files anymore. When I try the other OVPN files I get the following error: "openvpn: error while loading shared libraries: liblzo2.so.2: cannot open shared object file: Permission denied". Has anyone else experienced this and if so did you fix it and how... I'm running trying to run this on a synology nas if that changes anything.

[IIVBTII]

Hello DB Tech, first thank you for your awesome video. You are a master. I have a question about the ftp access with filezilla to your omv machine. Did you install a container on it in order to access, or did you just simply enter the local_ip of your machine with login+password of this machine ? Thank you in advance

[Jstncse]

Can you show how to make all of your other containers use this same VPN connection? Assuming you are using all of the *arr programs. Can you force all of the other containers to use this VPN, and if the VPN disconnects does qBittorrent or another one have a killswitch so that it doesn't do anything unless on VPN only?

[jacobematt]

When I'm running the VPN I can't access the web GUI for Qbittorent. Any thoughts?

Thanks

Edit: I had misconfigured my network by putting 10.0.0.1 instead of 10.0.0.0 whoops

[africantwin]

Would be nice to see some more vids without Docker Portainer.
I got OMV Plex working, but without the qbittorrent plugin my interest in OMV are gone.
Also the latest update on OMV yesterday has harmed the CPU usage on my Pi4.
Please make more vids without Docker.

[jeremyAr]

Works perfectly! This was the solution I was looking for. I have zero tier on my server and it doest like it when another vpn is running next to it, this just solved it!

Anyway is there anyway to test if the vpn is actually working?
Thanks!

[GuruPCs]

The video is great. Thanks. I had to change my port from 8080:8080 to 8081:8080 and now I can't reach the qbittorrent interface.

[charlesjenkins]

Adding my thanks for your informative videos. So likely a stupid question, but like a lot of folks that check out your videos, I'm new to some of this stuff. If I have an existing container for qBittorrent, is it possible to edit it in Portainer and just update the information accordingly to pull in this image and configure the VPN and not start an entirely new container? I'm trying to keep from losing what I have in my queue. I assume it might overwrite everything anyway, but just curious if this is doable.

[AshleyJonesFR]

WebUI is not accessible from a different machine when VPN is active. You dont show your VPN active so you didnt come across this problem. Any idea how to resolve please?

[spaindavid]

I suggest you add - TZ=America/New_York in the compose file to set the time zone (what ever yours is) otherwise you wont be able to throttle by time.

[kristoffseisler]

how to get this working with a genuine open source copy of openvpn (selfhosted server without username and password)?

[a_reallygoodusername]

Fantastic video! A pastebin of the docker compose text would be helpful for the especially lazy among us!!

[sebastianni]

I have a Raspberry Pi and it runs with raspbaiOS. I've installed CasaOS and thats my first time getting in touch with docker.
I've installed portainer and succesfully installed qbittorrent as shown in the video but since raspberry is arm it cant run this docker Containerr.
Do you think you can do a tutorial with a raspberry pi?