ANSWERED VPN tunnelling to home server?

[ghytbn 0]

Hi all,

So I have recently set up a home server, hosting a file share and a number of services running in docker containers, for e.g. home assistant. I have seen guides online on how to set up a vpn server on the home server to allow you to access the home server from outside my local network but keep seeing that using an external vpn is recommended but can't seem to find a clear guide on how to do this, do I have to set up the vpn on my router? Would doing so send all the internet traffic through my router through the vpn, if so I don't want this.

What set me down this road was adding qbittorrent to the server. I have set it up in a docker container, along with gluetun using airvpn to route qbittorrent traffic only through the vpn. I thought to then access the webUI all I would have to do is open a port using airvpn to my local port that qbittorrent is using (8080 default). Before setting up the vpn I could access the web ui via localhost:8080. When I try doing this though airvpn just tells me that the connection is either refused or timed out. I'm clearly missing something.

I think that my missing understanding is causing both of these issues. My main issue is the qbittorrent one, mainly as I thought it was relatively easy.
I've read that I have to forward a port on my router (I have not done this) but I also thought that using vpn tunneling was an alternative to this.
Sorry if I have come across as rambling, hopefully it just conveys how lost I am.

Many thanks for any help in advance.

[OpenSourcerer 1435]

How do I reach qbittorrent WEB UI if it's using gluetun container as network?

Does this answer your question?

[ghytbn 0]

I believe that solution refers to moving the ports argument from the qbittorent docker compose section to the gluetun part. As such I believe I have done this correctly. I have tested that the qbittorrent docker is using the vpn and it is. I just can't work out how to now access the webui via the vpn. Please do offer any solution, no matter how basic. 

[OpenSourcerer 1435]

Well, the WebUI listens on some port. All you gotta do is forward that port in the client area. It can be a random port forwarded to local port 8080.