#Plex media server linux add server download#

It did, and then I was able to finish the setup process.Īlso, after you finish the server setup, you don't need to use the SSH tunnel anymore. I purposefully disconnected and reconnected from my ssh tunnel connection and the web app to see if that would maybe fix it. At one point, the web app seemed to be stuck loading, showing an eternal loading spinner. Note: Accessing the web app w/ the SSH tunnel step in the guide was very slow for me. Because as far as Plex is concerned, you're now accessing the web app through localhost. Basically you're tunneling your local computer to the remote server's localhost address when accessing the web app, and thus making Plex happy. Ctrl-F search the guide I linked for 'SSH tunnel' to find that step that I'm talking about. The reason it works is because of a crucial step in that guide that involves using an SSH tunnel in order to circumvent the problem where Plex apparently will only allow localhost connections in order to access the web app properly.

#Plex media server linux add server download#

Then I ended up uninstalling plex on my server (I used this link for that, including doing the last commands they mentioned) and then following this guide and it worked! The plex web app was able to identify my server. Senior Member Launch Linux Deploy Click on the download like icon (Brings up Properties for Linux Image) Distribution: Debian Distribution Suite: Jessie. So I was stuck (or so I thought, as you'll see below). Unfortunately, I obviously couldn't just replace the IP address w/ localhost because my plex server was remote. It turns out that this was the issue all along for me as well.

And I found a solution.Īs noted by the original poster here in their comment reply, using localhost instead of the IP address worked for them. And I got the same problem as the original poster. Hey so my problem was that I wanted to setup Plex on a remote dedicated Ubuntu server (the OS version is 18.04 LTS).