Good day, everyone. I took the plunge into self-hosting in the last couple of weeks and set up a server running Linux Mint. I installed the media streaming stack composed of Jellyfin, Jellyseerr, Radarr, Sonarr, Jackett, Bazarr and Transmission according to this excellent guide: https://zerodya.net/self-host-jellyfin-media-streaming-stack/
Before installing it on my server, I tested it on my Linux Mint laptop and it worked perfectly. I also run NordVPN and had no issues running the streaming stack with my VPN running on the laptop. I then installed it on my server (running the exact same version of Linux Mint) and it runs fine UNTIL I turn on my VPN and then I get an “Internal Server Error 500” from Jellyseerr. Jellyseerr is still able to list the requests I’ve made, but can’t display the Discover sections that list popular movies and shows unless I turn off the VPN.
The one difference between my successful laptop test setup and my final server setup is that I’m also running Pi-Hole on my server, so perhaps the problem is related to that? I installed the Pi-Hole using the official Ubuntu installer on the Pi-Hole website.
Anyway, I’m new to self-hosting so I’m not sure if I’ve provided the necessary details. Any help getting this setup to work with my VPN is greatly appreciated.
Well first I’d try turning off pi hole on the server avenue see if it fixes the issue, even though it’s unlikely as pihole should be handling dns requests for your whole network anyway.
Usually with this setup you only need to place your torrent/Usenet download client behind the VPN. Use a container like gluetun and make your download client container a service of gluetun so it only connects though gluetun. The rest of your stack can just access the internet normally.
There should be more info in the jellyseer log file, have a look in your docker directory or have a play with the “docker logs” command and try to recreate the issue. If you kill your jellyseer container then start it
You were right, it wasn’t the pihole. I managed to get the system running by whitelisting my LAN in my VPN, which I’ve never had to do before. I’ll certainly look into creating services with gluetun, though! Thanks!