qBittorrent with Web UI on Ubuntu 20.04 (lazy guide)

qBittorrent with Web UI on Ubuntu 20.04 (lazy guide).md

qBittorrent with Web UI on Ubuntu 20.04 (lazy guide)

WARNING: this guide is not about security, but about functionality, for example, never run applications as root. Be cautious.

sudo su

add-apt-repository ppa:qbittorrent-team/qbittorrent-stable && \
apt install -y qbittorrent qbittorrent-nox

cat > /etc/systemd/system/qbittorrent-nox.service << EOF
[Unit]
Description=qBittorrent Command Line Client
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=forking
User=root
Group=root
UMask=000
ExecStart=/usr/bin/qbittorrent-nox -d --webui-port=8212
Restart=on-failure

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

systemctl daemon-reload && \
systemctl enable qbittorrent-nox && \
systemctl stop qbittorrent-nox && \
systemctl start qbittorrent-nox && \
systemctl status qbittorrent-nox

Using

• Web-UI URL: http://yourIP:8212/
• Username is "admin", password is "adminadmin".
• Source: https://www.linuxbabe.com/ubuntu/install-qbittorrent-ubuntu-18-04-desktop-server

Create Apache Reverse Proxy - HTTP

sudo su

apt update && \
apt install -y apache2 && \
a2enmod proxy proxy_http headers proxy_wstunnel

DOMAIN=qbit.yourdomain.tld && \
rm -f /etc/apache2/sites-available/$DOMAIN.conf && \
cat > /etc/apache2/sites-available/$DOMAIN.conf << EOF
<VirtualHost *:80>
   ServerName $DOMAIN
   ErrorDocument 404 /404.html

   #HTTP proxy
   ProxyPass / http://localhost:8212/
   ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:8212/

   #Websocket proxy
   SSLProxyEngine on
   <Location /:/websockets/notifications>
        ProxyPass wss://localhost:8212/:/websockets/notifications
        ProxyPassReverse wss://localhost:8212/:/websockets/notifications
   </Location>

   Header always unset X-Frame-Options
</VirtualHost>
EOF

DOMAIN=qbit.yourdomain.tld && \
a2ensite $DOMAIN.conf && \
systemctl restart apache2

Optional - Enable HTTPS

sudo su

apt install -y certbot python3-certbot-apache

DOMAIN=qbit.yourdomain.tld && \
[email protected] && \
certbot --apache --agree-tos --redirect --hsts --staple-ocsp --email $EMAIL -d $DOMAIN

systemctl restart apache2

the login admin-adminadmin doesnt work. I get "Invalid Username or Password." to

as of qbittorrent >= 4.6.0 it sets a random password which should be output in your container or system logs

it doesent like to spit out the login to logs, so if you cant login run
systemctl stop qbittorrent-nox && nano ~/.config/qBittorrent/qBittorrent.conf
at the bottom of the file add
WebUI\Password_PBKDF2="@ByteArray(ARQ77eY1NUZaQsuDHbIMCA==:0WMRkYTUWVT9wVvdDtHAjU9b3b7uB8NR1Gur2hmQCvCDpm39Q+PsJRJPaCU51dEiz+dTzh8qbPsL8WkFljQYFQ==)"
then press ctrl+x then enter y then press enter again
next run systemctl start qbittorrent-nox and the password will now be adminadmin when logging in <3