This might be something it’s been discussed in the previous posts, but I couldn’t find anything helpful. If this is the case, I’d appreciate if you could point me to the appropriate discussion.
So, here’s what I try to do. I have Plex server installed and publicly available over the internet with several libraries setup. What I want to do is to expose one of these libraries as a public page, so users don’t have to authenticate to see / play the content.
you can kind of, sort of, do it now. you’ll need a fully qualified domain name and ssl (at least i would setup ssl) then make a sign up info page telling those your user name and how to signup for a plex account. if plex has API for the sign up process you can do it for them. after that you would have to manually approve those who signed up and that’s it.
For no security access you’ll have to set up a page that automatically signs in from the server side via PHP, ASP etc… which is only possible if Plex has API for it. Then just display the Plex Web portal as is.
I would personally shy away from making it public due to copyright issues.
There isn’t a built in way in Plex to share 1 library publicly. You can turn off all authentication but that would make all of Plex open with full access to anyone.
Thinking outside the box.
You of course could create an account such as “Guest” with password “Guest” (something simple).
Then have a landing page with a login form with the information embedded that will log them in.
BTW, we are all assuming this is your own content. Don’t even think about doing something like this with copyrighted media you don’t own.
Speculating here but it could be a faster and easier way to publish videos instead of posting them on youtube/Vimeo. If target audience is limited, I can see the use case. Think seminar, training videos etc.
@clnr said:
Speculating here but it could be a faster and easier way to publish videos instead of posting them on youtube/Vimeo. If target audience is limited, I can see the use case. Think seminar, training videos etc.
Plex was not designed for this type of pubic sharing.
Thank you all for your feedback. Indeed, I wanted to give public access to some audio files that I own, but you all made some good points which made me reconsider this.
The Guest type of thing seems the easiest way for the moment.
