ACME failures; missing subdomains, seerr mount, and qBittorrent env not applied

[kevinstsauveur]

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I ran into a few problems while getting the stack running and wanted to report them.

Here's what I've observed :

• Traefik logs : "client version 1.24 is too old for my docker (1.54). Minimum supported API version is 1.44" => I upgraded Traefik to v3.6.13 and added my docker version in the docker compose ; it fixed the API error but led to ACME certificate failures.
  • ACME : after upgrading Traefik, certificate issuance fails (likely config differences between Traefik v2 and v3).
• Subdomains : README/website don’t list the subdomains used by each service (e.g., seerr.example.com, radarr.example.com) => It would be usefull to add them in the readme for simpler discovery.
• Seerr mount : current mapping is wrong and produce a warning at the first startup that the config will not be saved.
• qBittorrent : username, password and port from .env are not applied => values must be checked in container logs on first startup.
• It would be usefull to add the routing tips for when we configure the different services : service name + port for internal routing (e.g., http://seerr:8080).

Expected behavior

• Traefik should target a Docker API version >= 1.44 and ACME should work without manual tinkering.
  • Consider documenting supported Traefik/Docker versions or providing a tested Traefik v3 example with working ACME config.
• Document that users must register/subdomain DNS entries in their resolver
• Add a list of service subdomains to README/website (seerr.example.com, radarr.example.com, ...).
• For seer mount => Use /mnt/user/appdata/seerr/config:/app/config instead of /mnt/user/appdata/seerr/config:/config.
• Ensure qBittorrent reads credentials/port from .env or document the required manual setup step.
• Add the internal routing tip (service name + port) to the docs.

Thank you for your good work 👍

[TechGuyAlabama]

heh yep, I've run into most of these myself. Thanks for the info.

Did you submit a pull request with your changes? I'd hate to reinvent the wheel when you already did.

[TechGuyAlabama]

A couple of things I added/changed in the .env for the compose file:

DATA_DIR=/local/data/arr
DOWNLOADS_DIR=/mounts/psikh/downloads
MEDIA_TV_DIR=/mounts/media/tvshows
MEDIA_MOVIES_DIR=/mounts/media/movies
RESTART=always

Also, to add to your qBittorrent message:

******** Information ********
To control qBittorrent, access the WebUI at: http://localhost:8080
The WebUI administrator username is: someonespecial
The WebUI administrator password was not set. A temporary password is provided for this session: dude-really-no
You should set your own password in program preferences.
Connection to localhost (::1) 8080 port [tcp/http-alt] succeeded!

Is this the cert error you are getting?

traefik | 2026-04-11T14:37:00-05:00 ERR Unable to obtain ACME certificate for domains error="unable to generate a certificate for the domains [prowlarr.mywebsite.com]: error: one or more domains had a problem:\n[prowlarr.mywebsite.com] [prowlarr.mywebsite.com] acme: error presenting token: cloudflare: failed to create TXT record: [status code 403] 10000: Authentication error\n" ACME CA=https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/directory acmeCA=https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/directory domains=["prowlarr.mywebsite.com"] providerName=letsencrypt.acme routerName=prowlarr-secure@docker rule=Host(prowlarr.mywebsite.com)

I was in the process of a markdown file of the issues and how to resolve them but .... thanks again!

[Lackoftactics]

@TechGuyAlabama do you want to submit a PR with your changes? If not I will take care of it

[TechGuyAlabama]

That's a good question. I altered it a bit since I do not use qBitottrent, added NZBGet, and have my own cloud proxy server running Zoraxy, which I pointed to all of my sub domains through Tailscale back to my home server. I learned quite a bit with your setup though, which was my primary goal.

I don't think you need all of that unless you want to create an additional compose folder for nzbget vs qbit or ...? I need to clean it up either way, I had just got it working and then crashed. Haven't looked back at it since. Big trade show this weekend and I won't have time to work on it. I will send what I have when I get a minute.

[Lackoftactics]

I was thinking about nzbget and my plan is probably to add some cli for installing

[Lackoftactics]

Added command line flow based on your feedback and fixed some problems with dirs that you mentioned

@TechGuyAlabama very good feedback, nice catch

[kevinstsauveur]

A couple of things I added/changed in the .env for the compose file:

DATA_DIR=/local/data/arr
DOWNLOADS_DIR=/mounts/psikh/downloads
MEDIA_TV_DIR=/mounts/media/tvshows
MEDIA_MOVIES_DIR=/mounts/media/movies
RESTART=always

@TechGuyAlabama This is the only thing that I have not touched in my PR.

[TechGuyAlabama]

I'll submit those and my NZB get changes.