Chris wrote:
Good news: there’s no separate Linux server to hunt down or SSH into. Since you used the Windows installer, SparkBox runs inside WSL2 (Ubuntu) right on this same PC. To get a terminal into it, click Start and open the "Ubuntu" app you set up during install, logging in with the Linux username and password you created back then, not SSH. For Prowlarr, if localhost:8181 shows nothing, open a Windows PowerShell window and run: wsl hostname -I. Take the first IP it prints (something like 172.x.x.x) and open that address with :8181 instead of localhost.
Chris wrote:
Checking in on the blank Prowlarr page on your Windows install. Did it begin loading after the connection steps, or are you still getting a blank page? If it remains blank, tell me exactly what the browser shows now—an error message, endless loading, or a refused connection—without posting any credentials. I can use that detail to identify the next safe thing to check. — checking in