Unauthorized error on qbittorent

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Anybody had the same issue when running qbittorent and will just display Unauthorized on the web gui? Kindly share your resolution. TIA

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You can try opening the privacy browser and see if you can log in properly.

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really sorry I am new to this function. Would you mind explaining further? thanks

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I have the same issue. I tried it in a private window from Firefox as @pgear suggested and it also worked correctly the first time there. If I close that tab in the private window and open qBittorrent again, I get the same ā€œUnauthorizedā€ error.

With that knowledge it seems to be an issue with how qBittorrent is storing cookies on my device. This seems like a bug, but there might be a workaround if we donā€™t allow the browser to store cookies for that specific site. This wouldnā€™t be preferable as Iā€™d need to do it on each of my devices, but Iā€™ll do some testing and report back.

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Scratch that. Changing my browser settings to not allow storage or cookies from the url of qBittorrent did nothing. In fact, if I close all private windows and restart my computer, it still gives me the unauthorized error if I open qBittorrent in a new private window. Thereā€™s probably something happening on the server end, but Iā€™m totally stumped as to what it might be.

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I am also having the same issue and do no know what to do. Tried asking from the group but still did not get any answer

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I just came across the same problem. Simply adding http:// in front of the IP worked for me.

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Thanks xocavod. That got me onto the qbittorent webui login page.
but here I stumble at the next hurdle - Iā€™m quite a noob - I canā€™t log in.
I tried the ā€œadminā€ and empty password, my login and password for the nas I want to run qbittorent on. ā€œadminā€ with my password. , and some variations on those. In the zimaos tips when clicking on ā€œopen qbittorentā€™ā€ is says for password ā€™ get from logā€™ I assumed that would be my password as I donā€™t know what log or where to find that (download?)log.

edit: I found the log, but in the log i do not find a password. ???

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Click on Settings-General-Web based terminal.

Enter the following;

docker logs qbittorrent

You will see in the logs something like:

The WebUI administrator username is: admin
The WebUI administrator password was not set. A temporary password is provided for this session:

Now you can go to URL: http://localhost:8080 and log on using details provided in container logs.
Go to Tools - Options - WebUI - change the user and password and tick ā€˜bypass authentication for clients on localhostā€™ .