headless qbittorrent-nox on Linux (piefed.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 week ago by akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Just in case you were looking for a way to edit the WebUI address without opening the WebUI (because you can't, because you only have ssh access to the server and the default address is localhost):

The config file in ~/.local/share/qBittorrent/qBittorrent.conf takes

[Preferences]  
WebUI/Address=[address]

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[-] frongt@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 week ago

You could also use ssh forwarding for the web UI port, e.g. ssh -L 8080:192.168.0.1:80 user@myvps.com

[-] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago

Docker, dude.

[-] haribar@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

You could also install NixOS on all your headless servers and set it declaratively: https://search.nixos.org/options?channel=26.05&query=services.qbittorrent.serverConfig&type=options#show=option%253Aservices.qbittorrent.serverConfig

For instance:

{
  LegalNotice.Accepted = true;
  Preferences = {
    WebUI = {
      Username = "user";
      Password_PBKDF2 = "generated ByteArray.";
    };
    "WebUI/Address" = "<url>";
    General.Locale = "en";
  };
}

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