Important or Recent Updates
| Historic Updates | Date |
|---|---|
| Updated guide for Container Manager | 22/05/2023 |
| Moved from UI setup to Project Setup which is more flexible and easier to maintain. Added an addition element to the compose to restrict the container from gaining additional privilege. | 25/10/2023 |
| Added FlareSolverr to the Extras section of the guide | 10/11/2023 |
| Guide amended to include FlareSolverr into the Project and step through adding this all to GlueTUN | 09/12/2023 |
| Removed the depends_on for gluetun as it’s not required | 04/01/2024 |
| Guide archived as merged with the non VPN guide. | 03/07/2025 |
Guide archived
I have now merged this guide into the non VPN version located here – it contains all the steps to set up Prowlarr and add a GlueTUN Proxy.
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Hey! I’ve got everything up and running thanks to your excellent guides. I do have one question about this one — what’s the thinking behind having prowlarr be part of the vpn project, rather than it’s own standalone project?
You can do it either way really.. I need to run Prowlarr on my VPN due to sites being blocked here, but if you can freely access trackers then there is no need to VPN the connection if you don’t want to.
Also you can also have on the VPN and a separate project – take a look at the Bitmagnet guide to see how you can split using a slightly different network mode
Hello,
Todau, using Prowlarr GUI, I got a notification in System-Status that a new release was available.
I went in Container Manager, but no release was automatically shown on the Prowlarr container page.
I’ve decided to try to force the installation of the new version, dowladed the “latest” version of linuxserver/prowlarr container, then went to Container page, stopped Prowlarr container and try to reset it, as I used to do.
At this point, I get an error message, and I can’t install the new release.
Here’s the log : https://paste.drfrankenstein.co.uk/?23d38c9cf6e838d1#DjJX2V89xWLDdyBW87Dayrth7FKFAvqiaMwGP4u9kmWy
Do you have an idea what I’m doing wrong?
I precise that I’ve decided not to use the Automatic upgrades with Watchtower because my NAS is not ON 24/7 (I use it only when I need it). So it’s not possible for me to schedule a time for scanning/upgrading the containers.
However, what I’d like is that the scan would be made when I manually start the NAS, I don’t know whether it would be possible (and if so, maybe add it in the guides for peaple like me, if it’s not too much to ask 🙂 )
Hey Max – Could I see your compose please as the error suggests something might be wrong in one of the lines.
Sure thing, there it is :
Seems OK – I have removed the link as you may have left your log in details in it.
Have your Certificate files expired maybe?
Certificate files of my VPN, you mean ? They look OK, and prowlarr is the only container in vpn-project which has this trouble.
Or maybe you’re talking about another certificate…
Another strange thing, lokk at this screenshot : https://freeimage.host/i/3JgFHuV
Prowlarr is the only one without the tag “latest” at the end… I’m sure that it’s linked but how/why?
With no link, I’ve juste upgraded my RAM from 2 to 18G, it’s like night and day : my Nas is so fast now 😀
Sorry confusing two comment strings!
For the prowlarr section of the yaml can you check it looks like this
image: linuxserver/prowlarr:latest
That ram increase will make things massively faster!!
No worries!
My image field was identical as the one you wrote…
Today, I wanted to get rid of Cyberghost and bought a 3 day premium to AirVPN (following your affiliate link), to test.
I managed to configure WireGuard and everything with AirVPN, I’m quite happy with it so I think I’ll take a 2year premium.
Doing so, I’ve reseted my vpn-project, and prowlarr is now up to date… but the same problem happened with radarr 😀
I’ve seen in another comment that you suggested to update containers using the ssh method. I did so, thought it would work because files were downloaded but, in the end, no update was made.
So I thought I would give a try with Watchtower, and scheduled it a 9pm here in France, went dinner, and when I came back, all my containers were up to date this time, including radarr 🙂
My question is : is there a way to manually force the update of containers when I want, and when Container Manager doesn’t detect the new version of a container.
I think you said that Container Manager checks only once a day for new updates, but can we force it ?
As I said, my NAS is not ON 24/7, but only when I need it, so it’s hard for me to schedule a precise time for WatchTower.
Is there a way to force WatchTower to upadate containers when I start my NAS, or 5 minutes later, for example ?
Thanks 🙂
First off thanks for using the link Air are excellent!
As you are not up 24/7 I would schedule a single run of Watchtower at start up using Task Scheduler, set up a task that is run as root at start up using this in its code section.
https://paste.drfrankenstein.co.uk/?950e87104c8aa444#HFioutUzhTzGxnMPJzE7YQT2okN5NwWXas82FJkrxAmb
Thanks!
I’ve created the task, we’ll see what happens 🙂
Regards!
Thank you for these outstanding guides. I have set most everything up but need to run Prowlarr in my Gluetun container. I set my VPN up following your updated guides and there is no such thing as a VPN Project, it is a Container instead, so no YAML editor. Any advice you could offer? Thank you!
Hey if you already have GlueTUN in place following either the qBittorrent or Deluge guides you should be able to layer these into them. The VPN Project should be in the Projects section of Container Manager.. Unless its named something slightly different.
Thanks for the reply! I ended up uninstalling a lot of things and re-doing it as projects following your guide. Everything was set up and running well, but all the sudden Flare is not connecting. I’ll keep messing with it though. Thanks!
Flaresolverr seems to be hit and miss as to whether it works which is a known issue.
Hello!
Are you putting prowlarr, FlareSolverr, sonarr, radarr, etc. in the same docker compose file as gluetun and qbittorrent?
Thanks`
Hey MrMeatball
So Radarr, Sonarr. Lidarr etc should not go on the VPN as recommended by the devs
Prowlarr/Flaresolverr only needs the VPN if the indexers you are using are blocked in your country so require the VPN to bypass restrictions