Configuring qBittorrent properly

I have been seeding torrents through utorrent (on windows) with no issues. But through this community's megathreads, I came across using qBittorrent, which seems more flexible and configurable.

But I'm having an issue seeding torrents over my favourite private trackers though. I'm on Linux, and no matter what I do, it flags an orange sign and hovering over it says "there is a configuration issue". The DHT number is non zero, and I'm currently trying to seed on two trackers.

Can someone share a guide on qbittorrent on how to properly configure it. Or a place (IRC, Matrix) where they could assist me? I've search online but haven't been lucky so far.

As a last resort, if there is a good alternative too, I'm ready to switch.

EDIT: thanks to everyone for comments and helping me out resolving this issue.

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- How can I resolve that?
  
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  The same way as your previous torrent program. Forward the port on your router to the device running qBitorrent and make sure the qBitorrent setting for the port to use matches.
  
  Also make sure the firewall in Linux allows the port too.
  
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  Where are you sending from? Home computer? Home computer with VPN? Seedbox? The answer will change based on which.
  
  An easy hack might be to look at your transmission settings, find the port it uses and just copy that into qbittorrent settings.
  
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I dont know how to fix that issue, but ones you get that figured out, i can recomend you setup search engines in qbit, as that is one of the best features, becouse then you dont have to go on 5 websites to find the movie you are looking for

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- you mean Jackett? Yeah, I've already figured that one out.
  
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  There are lots, its a build in feature so you just press search and then you search, and it shows a long list
  
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Im just guessing, but did you increase the number of active torrents? Any chance your firewall is blocking it? Try disabling firewall.

Btw you dont need alternative, qbit is perfect especially if you want to use *arr stack (highly recommended), but you can try transmission

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- If you mean torrent queue, it is disabled. The port I'm using is open in the firewall and the router. I'm using firewalld.
  
  I have been looking into *arr. I just need some time to implement it 😉
  
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- I reckon it has something to do with advance tab
  
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  You are firewalled (not port forwarded / not connectable).
  
  Like the other commenter said you need to port forward your torrent client's incoming connection port. You may need to log into your network router to do that.
  
  Also make sure your OS firewall is allowing your torrent client access to the internet.
  
  And also make sure to whitelist your torrent client in any anti-virus/malware software, sometimes those block torrent clients too.
  
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  Hey I updated to your settings. Didn't work out
  
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Shouldn’t DHT be off if you’re seeding on a private tracker? I don’t use private trackers, but I remember seeing instructions for that

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- I reckon it has something to do with the advance tab
  
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- It's off on private tracker
  
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