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Welcome to the autobrr installation walkthrough! Follow these steps and we will have you up and running in no time.

Follow instructions below for recommended setup on a regular Linux server. Additionally see our installation instructions for Docker and windows .

Seedbox solutions​

sudo box install autobrr

Swizzin documentation: https://swizzin.ltd/applications/autobrr

Regular installation​

Download​

Download the latest release, or download the source code and build it yourself using make build.

wget $(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/autobrr/autobrr/releases/latest | grep download | grep linux_x86_64 | cut -d\" -f4)

Unpack​

sudo tar -C /usr/local/bin -xzf autobrr*.tar.gz

This will extract both autobrr and autobrrctl to /usr/local/bin.

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If you do not have root, or are on a shared system, place the binaries somewhere in your home directory like ~/.bin or use our installers for shared seedboxes.

Configuration​

Create the config dir

mkdir -p ~/.config/autobrr

Manually configure autobrr (optional)​

You can either let autobrr create the config itself at startup, or create one manually. For more information, please visit configuring autobrr which covers creating a user manually, configuring the default port, setting the desired log level, etc.

On Linux-based systems, it is recommended to run autobrr as a service with auto-restarting capabilities, in order to account for potential downtime. The most common way is to do it via systemd.

You will need to create a service file in /etc/systemd/system/ called autobrr@.service. The @ is important.

touch /etc/systemd/system/autobrr@.service

Then place the following content inside the file (e.g. via nano/vim/ed):

/etc/systemd/system/autobrr@.service
[Unit]
Description=autobrr service for %i
After=syslog.target network-online.target

[Service]
Type=simple
User=%i
Group=%i
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/autobrr --config=/home/%i/.config/autobrr/

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

The %i will automatically be replaced with your user when you call systemctl enable with @USERNAME like below.

Start the service. Enable will make it startup on reboot. Replace USERNAME with your username.

sudo systemctl enable --now autobrr@USERNAME.service

Make sure it's running and active

sudo systemctl status autobrr@USERNAME.service

It's recommended to run it behind a reverse proxy like nginx in order to get TLS, more robust authentication mechanisms and other similar benefits.

Nginx​

Subfolder​

location /autobrr/ {
    proxy_pass              http://127.0.0.1:7474;
    proxy_http_version      1.1;
    proxy_set_header        X-Forwarded-Host        $http_host;

    #auth_basic "What's the password?";
    #auth_basic_user_file /etc/htpasswd;

    rewrite ^/autobrr/(.*) /$1 break;
}
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The rewrite statement in this example is crucial for correctly setting things up when using a reverse proxy with a base path.

Don't forget to set the baseUrl option in the config.toml:

# Base url
# Set custom baseUrl eg /autobrr/ to serve in subdirectory.
# Not needed for subdomain, or by accessing with the :port directly.
#
# Optional
#
baseUrl = "/autobrr/"

Subdomain​

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name autobrr.domain.com;
    return 301 https://$server_name$request_uri;
}

server {
    listen 443 ssl http2;
    server_name autobrr.domain.com;

    include snippets/ssl-params.conf;

    ssl_certificate /etc/nginx/ssl/autobrr.domain.com/fullchain.pem;
    ssl_certificate_key /etc/nginx/ssl/autobrr.domain.com/key.pem;

    proxy_set_header Host $host;
    proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
    proxy_http_version 1.1;
    proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
    proxy_set_header Connection $http_connection;

    #auth_basic "What's the password?";
    #auth_basic_user_file /etc/htpasswd;

    location / {
        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:7474;
    }
}

Caddy​

Subfolder​

example.com/autobrr/* {
    uri strip_prefix /autobrr
    reverse_proxy :7474
}

Don't forget to set the baseUrl option in the config.toml:

# Base url
# Set custom baseUrl eg /autobrr/ to serve in subdirectory.
# Not needed for subdomain, or by accessing with the :port directly.
#
# Optional
#
baseUrl = "/autobrr/"

Subdomain​

# Defaults
{
    admin off
    email YOUREMAIL@YOURDOMAIN.COM
    key_type p256
}

(tls) {
    tls {
        protocols tls1.2 tls1.3
        ciphers TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256 TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256
    }
}

(headers) {
    header {
        -Server
        Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=63072000"

        # Opt-out search engines
        X-Robots-Tag "noindex, nofollow, nosnippet, noarchive"
    }
}

(encoding) {
    encode zstd gzip
}

# Services
autobrr.yourdomain.com {
    reverse_proxy http://autobrr:7474

    import tls
    import headers
    import encoding
}

Done​

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By default autobrr listens on 127.0.0.1 which is the recommended way when running a reverse proxy, but if you want to expose it to the internet/network then you must change the host in the ~/.config/autobrr/config.toml from 127.0.0.1 to 0.0.0.0.

Save the changes and restart autobrr with sudo systemctl restart autobrr@USERNAME.service.

Now that autobrr is up and running, you should be able to visit the your web UI at http://YOUR_IP:7474 or http://domain.ltd:7474 and proceed with your registration/login.