Gluetun - Windscribe - private key is not valid: wgtypes: failed to parse base64-encoded key

[reddeviluk]

Hi All, I'm totally new to all of this so please keep that in mind. I've spent the day following Jim's video in relation to setting up a stack which will filter everything through a VPN. I'm almost there but failed at the VPN hurdle on my QNAP NAS using their version of Docker. I've got a paid Windscribe VPN subscription, have got my wireguard credentials and have read a dozen sites or more to try and adapt the compose file to fix this, but I'm getting the error:

2023-12-28T16:00:10Z INFO [routing] default route found: interface eth0, gateway 172.29.0.1, assigned IP 172.29.0.2 and family v4
2023-12-28T16:00:10Z INFO [routing] local ethernet link found: eth0
2023-12-28T16:00:10Z INFO [routing] local ipnet found: 172.29.0.0/22
2023-12-28T16:00:10Z INFO [firewall] enabling...
2023-12-28T16:00:10Z INFO [firewall] enabled successfully
2023-12-28T16:00:12Z INFO [storage] merging by most recent 17685 hardcoded servers and 17685 servers read from /gluetun/servers.json
2023-12-28T16:00:12Z ERROR VPN settings: Wireguard settings: private key is not valid: wgtypes: failed to parse base64-encoded key: illegal base64 data at input byte 0
2023-12-28T16:00:12Z INFO Shutdown successful

My compose file reads like this:

environment:
  - VPN_SERVICE_PROVIDER=windscribe
  - VPN_TYPE=wireguard
  - WIREGUARD_PRIVATE_KEY=redacted 44 character private key=
  - WIREGUARD_ADDRESSES=redacted/32
  - WIREGUARD_PRESHARED_KEY=redacted 44 character key=

- SERVER_REGIONS=United Kingdom

- SERVER_CITIES=Edinburgh

  - HTTPPROXY=on
  - SERVER_HOSTNAMES=edi-369-wg.whiskergalaxy.com:443
  # Timezone for accurate log times
  - TZ=Europe/London
  # Server list updater
  # See https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun-wiki/blob/main/setup/servers.md#update-the-vpn-servers-list
  - UPDATER_PERIOD=24h

I'm throwing myself open to anyone who can help please. I've tried 3 private keys obtained through Windscribe so far and always the same outcome, everything looks fine, but I'm missing something.

Many thanks

[reddeviluk]

Further to this....with nothing else to try I restarted with a new compose file using the providede template and decided to try OpenVPN..

version: "3"
services:
gluetun:
image: qmcgaw/gluetun
container_name: gluetun
# line above must be uncommented to allow external containers to connect.
# See https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun-wiki/blob/main/setup/connect-a-container-to-gluetun.md#external-container-to-gluetun
cap_add:
- NET_ADMIN
devices:
- /dev/net/tun:/dev/net/tun
ports:
- 6881:6881
- 6881:6881/udp
- 8085:8085 # qbittorrent
- 9117:9117 # Jackett
- 8989:8989 # Sonarr
- 9696:9696 # Prowlarr
volumes:
- /share/CACHEDEV1_DATA/Container/container-station-data/arr-stack:/gluetun
environment:
# See https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun-wiki/tree/main/setup#setup
- VPN_SERVICE_PROVIDER=windscribe
- VPN_TYPE=openvpn
# OpenVPN:
# - OPENVPN_USER=redacted
# - OPENVPN_PASSWORD=redacted
# Wireguard:
- WIREGUARD_PRIVATE_KEY=<YOUR_PRIVATE_KEY> # See https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun-wiki/blob/main/setup/providers/nordvpn.md#obtain-your-wireguard-private-key
- WIREGUARD_ADDRESSES=10.5.0.2/32
# Timezone for accurate log times
- TZ=Europe/London
# Server list updater
# See https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun-wiki/blob/main/setup/servers.md#update-the-vpn-servers-list
- UPDATER_PERIOD=24h

And I get exactly the same error......

2023-12-28T17:36:46Z INFO [routing] default route found: interface eth0, gateway 172.29.0.1, assigned IP 172.29.0.2 and family v4
2023-12-28T17:36:46Z INFO [routing] local ethernet link found: eth0
2023-12-28T17:36:46Z INFO [routing] local ipnet found: 172.29.0.0/22
2023-12-28T17:36:46Z INFO [firewall] enabling...
2023-12-28T17:36:46Z INFO [firewall] enabled successfully
2023-12-28T17:36:48Z INFO [storage] merging by most recent 17685 hardcoded servers and 17685 servers read from /gluetun/servers.json
2023-12-28T17:36:48Z ERROR VPN settings: Wireguard settings: private key is not valid: wgtypes: failed to parse base64-encoded key: illegal base64 data at input byte 0
2023-12-28T17:36:48Z INFO Shutdown successful