Background - It’s great that Plex supports custom hostnames and domains, but that requires people to know how to generate (or purchase) matching TLS certificates and then update them as needed. As the renewal periods continue to shrink on certificates the manual process to install and renew certificates for use with Plex Media Server is becoming more and more of a hassle and frankly untenable. Most users are not going to be able to write custom scripts and processes to deal with this and it makes sense that Plex integrate the generation and renewal for these certificates into the server software.
Feature Request - Add automatic (TLS) certificate generation through requests and renewal using Let’s Encrypt or similar free public certificate authority.
How it should work - Ideally when setting the “custom certificate domain” feature in the server configuration there would be a checkbox or pull down to select free certificate authority generation.
For instance:
[ X ] - Automatic custom domain certificate using Let’s Encrypt certificate authority
Certificate Management - [ Manual ] , [ Let’s Encrypt ], [ CACert ], [ ZeroSSL ]
This would actually be a great PlexPass feature as it’s likely not something a lot of people would use but those that need it would greatly appreciate it as an advanced feature.
