How to deploy qbittorrent via docker with ipv6 enabled

Posted on 2025-01-11 In tutorial Views: Word count in article: 2k Reading time ≈ 2 mins.

Qbittorrent is useful tool for BT or PT download. Recently I installed it using docker. It is recommended to enable IPV6 if you have IPV6 access in order to get a better connection ability.

How to install

Log into your sever as root

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mkdir qBittorrent
cd qBittorrent
vim docker-compose.yml

services:
  qbittorrent:
    image: linuxserver/qbittorrent
    container_name: qbittorrent
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Europe/Stockholm # Your time zone
      - UMASK_SET=022
      - WEBUI_PORT=8081 # Your web UI port 
    volumes:
      - ./config:/config
      - ./downloads:/downloads
    ports:
      # the port below should be the same as WEBUI_PORT
      - 127.0.0.1:8081:8081
    restart: unless-stopped
    network_mode: bridge

1	vim /etc/docker/daemon.json

{
 "ipv6": true,
 "fixed-cidr-v6": "your_ipv6_address/64",
 "experimental": true,
 "ip6tables": true
}

systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl restart docker
docker run --rm -it busybox ping -6 -c4 www.google.com # check whether IPV6 in docker is enabled successfully
docker-compose up -d
docker logs qbittorrent # check log to find initial password
# For me, I use apache2 as web server
vim /etc/apache2/sites-available/your.domain.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName your.domain
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
    RewriteRule ^ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:443>
    ServerName your.domain

    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/music_error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/music_access.log combined

    # comment these lines related to ssl until you get your ssl certificate
    SSLEngine on
    SSLCertificateFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/your.domain/fullchain.pem
    SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/your.domain/privkey.pem


    ProxyPreserveHost On
    ProxyRequests Off


    ProxyPass / http://127.0.0.1:8081/
    ProxyPassReverse / http://127.0.0.1:8081/

    ProxyTimeout 600

    TraceEnable off
</VirtualHost>

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certbot certonly --apache -d your.domain
a2ensite pt.aka.cy.conf
service apache2 restart

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