Prowlarr, FlareSolverr and GlueTUN Proxy in Container Manager on a Synology NAS

What is Prowlarr and FlareSolverr?

Prowlarr is an application that combines your various indexers for Torrents and Usenet into one place, it then syncs all the indexer settings automatically with Sonarr, Radarr etc. FlareSolverr is an additional proxy which helps bypass Cloudflare protection that many indexers use.

This guide now has some additional steps on how to connect Prowlarr to GlueTUN and how to proxy specific indexers via your VPN connection if required.

Let’s Begin

In order for you to successfully use this guide please complete these two guides and come back here.

• Step 2: Setting up a restricted Docker user
• Step 3: Setting up a Docker Bridge Network

Folder Setup

Let’s start by getting some folders set up for the containers to use. Open up File Station create the following.

/docker/projects/prowlarr-flaresolverr-compose
/docker/prowlarr

/docker/projects/prowlarr-flaresolverr-compose
/docker/prowlarr

Container Manager

Next we are going to set up a ‘Project’ in Container Manager. Open up Container Manager and click on Project then on the right-hand side click ‘Create’.

In the next screen we will set up our General Settings, enter the following:

Next we are going to drop in our docker compose configuration copy all the code in the box below and paste it into line ‘1’ just like the screenshot.

What on earth is a Docker Compose?
Docker Compose allows us to define how Docker should set up one or more containers within a single configuration file. This file is yaml formatted and Container Manager uses the Projects feature to manage them.

services:
  linuxserver-prowlarr:
    image: linuxserver/prowlarr:latest
    container_name: prowlarr
    environment:
      - PUID=1234 #CHANGE_TO_YOUR_UID
      - PGID=65432 #CHANGE_TO_YOUR_GID
      - TZ=Europe/London #CHANGE_TO_YOUR_TZ
      - UMASK=022
    volumes:
      - /volume1/docker/prowlarr:/config
    ports:
      - 9696:9696/tcp
    network_mode: synobridge
    security_opt:
      - no-new-privileges:true
    restart: always
    
  flaresolverr:
    image: flaresolverr/flaresolverr:latest
    container_name: flaresolverr
    environment:
      - TZ=Europe/London #CHANGE_TO_YOUR_TZ
    ports:
      - 8191:8191
    network_mode: synobridge
    security_opt:
      - no-new-privileges:true
    restart: always

services:
  linuxserver-prowlarr:
    image: linuxserver/prowlarr:latest
    container_name: prowlarr
    environment:
      - PUID=1234 #CHANGE_TO_YOUR_UID
      - PGID=65432 #CHANGE_TO_YOUR_GID
      - TZ=Europe/London #CHANGE_TO_YOUR_TZ
      - UMASK=022
    volumes:
      - /volume1/docker/prowlarr:/config
    ports:
      - 9696:9696/tcp
    network_mode: synobridge
    security_opt:
      - no-new-privileges:true
    restart: always
    
  flaresolverr:
    image: flaresolverr/flaresolverr:latest
    container_name: flaresolverr
    environment:
      - TZ=Europe/London #CHANGE_TO_YOUR_TZ
    ports:
      - 8191:8191
    network_mode: synobridge
    security_opt:
      - no-new-privileges:true
    restart: always

Environment Variables

We need to make some changes in order for the container to have the correct permissions to save its configuration files and to have access to your media.

Click ‘Next’

You do not need to enable anything on the ‘Web portal settings’ screen click ‘Next’ again.

On the final screen click ‘Done’ which will begin the download of the container images and once downloaded they will be launched!

The image will now be downloaded and extracted. You should see ‘Code 0’ when it has finished.

The Project should now be running with a Green status

Firewall Exceptions

(Skip if you don’t have the Firewall configured)

If you have the Synology Firewall enabled please see this additional guide for further info on exceptions and correct set up.

Container set up complete

You should now be able to access Prowlarr via the IP of your NAS followed by the port 9696

e.g. 192.168.0.40:9696

FlareSolverr Setup

Once you have set up Prowlarr and the Indexers you want to use, you can then add FlareSolverr to the ones that require it.

Go to Settings > Indexers > Click + then select FlareSolverr

Once added enter the details as per the screenshot below – ensure you keep note of the ‘Tags’ as this is what you will add to an actual indexer to tell it to use FlareSolverr.

There are 3 possible connection options to use, try from top to bottom.

http://localhost:8191/
http://172.20.0.1:8191/
http://YOUR-NAS-IP:8191/

You then tag each indexer that requires FlareSolverr

GlueTUN VPN HTTP Proxy Setup

We can now look at setting up our http proxy to use for some or all of our indexers. This makes the assumption you already have a healthy GlueTUN connection already in place using my other guides.

Open up container manager and in the Project section select the `vpn-project` then Action > Stop.

Once the project has stopped click into it and select the YAML Configuration tab, you need to make a couple of edits.

In the ports section we are adding the http proxy port, and then we enable it by adding an environment variable and setting a username and password.

    ports:
      - 8888:8888 #port for http proxy

    ports:
      - 8888:8888 #port for http proxy

    environment:
      - HTTPPROXY=on
      - HTTPPROXY_USER=username
      - HTTPPROXY_PASSWORD=secretpassword

    environment:
      - HTTPPROXY=on
      - HTTPPROXY_USER=username
      - HTTPPROXY_PASSWORD=secretpassword

It should look like the below image once edited with your own username and password

You can now Save and Build the VPN Project, and we can move onto the next stage of set up.

Back into Prowlarr we are going to set up the proxy, head into Settings then Indexers. Click on the + to add the Proxy

Next select Http from the available options

Now we are going to add the following settings

It should look like the below and when you click test it should pass successfully.

The Proxy is now ready to use – you can either add it to any new indexers when setting them up or editing an existing indexer and adding the tag we created, this tells Prowlarr to use the Proxy

That’s it you are all set up – keep in mind that GlueTUN will need to be active and healthy for the Indexers to fuction correctly after making these changes.

FAQ

Prowlarr can’t connect to my Arrs or Download Client

When setting up the connection between Prowlarr and Radarr/Sonarr/Lidarr some users have reported getting a time-out when using the NAS IP. If this happens try using the Gateway IP of the Synobridge network, which should be ‘http://172.20.0.1’. (you can see this in the Container Manager UI in Networks)

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