Setting RapidBay up on a VPS and tunnel torrent traffic through NordVPN

Guide:

Requirements:

• A VPS with shell/SSH access
• An active account at NordVPN (https://nordvpn.com/)
• A domain or subdmomain name pointing to your server IP address
• Docker + docker-compose installed
  • example guide: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-use-docker-on-ubuntu-18-04

To do the following you need to SSH into your server

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Create a directory to store the project:

mkdir ~/rapidbay

Open the directory:

cd ~/rapidbay

Create a file called Caddyfile with the following contents(replace yourdomain.com with your domain/subdomain):

yourdomain.com {
 reverse_proxy nordvpn:5000
}
jackett.yourdomain.com {
 reverse_proxy jackett:9117
}

Create a file called docker-compose.yml with the following content:

version: "3"

services:

  nordvpn:
    cap_add:
    - NET_ADMIN
    devices:
      - /dev/net/tun
    environment:
      - USER=<YOUR NORDVPN USERNAME/EMAIL>
      - PASS=<YOUR NORDVPN PASSSORD>
      - COUNTRY=<YOUR DESIRED COUNTRY e.g. Netherlands>
    image: "azinchen/nordvpn"

  jackett:
    image: linuxserver/jackett
    volumes:
      - ./.jackett:/config

  rapidbay:
    network_mode: "service:nordvpn"
    image: "hauxir/rapidbay:latest"
    environment:
      - PASSWORD=123456
      - JACKETT_HOST=jackett.yourdomain.com
      - JACKETT_API_KEY=PLACEHOLDER_CHANGE_THIS_LATER

  caddy:
    links:
      - nordvpn
      - jackett
    volumes:
      - ./Caddyfile:/etc/caddy/Caddyfile
      - .caddy:/data/
    ports:
      - "80:80"
      - "443:443"
    image: "caddy:latest"

Start RapidBay:

docker-compose up -d

Navigate to jackett.yourdomain.com, pick search indexers and get your API key.

Update the PLACEHOLDER_CHANGE_THIS_LATER above to the api key.

Again run

docker-compose up -d

All set!