Indirect Connection When Accessing Local Server via Custom Domain Name

Plex Media Server Desktops & Laptops
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Hey Guys -

I am a big fan of Plex and am a long time Plex Pass member. Below are environment details which would probably help prior to explaining my issue:

  • Plex Media Server Version: 1.13.6.5339
  • Plex Web Player Version: 3.63.1
  • Installed on a Windows 10 x64 (1803) workstation (i7-3770k / 32gb RAM)
  • NGINX installed on same PC which applies a 3rd party signed cert & hosts reverse proxy for ~15 locally hosted services / sites
  • I access plex both locally and remotely using a bookmark which loads Plex over reverse proxy therefore goes to https://mydomain.com/plex instead of the default of http://127.0.0.1:32400/web/index.html

My Issue
When visiting Plex from the same system it’s installed upon using https://mydomain.com/plex, it works, however; my server is listed as “Indirect.” (Visiting it using http://127.0.0.1:32400/web/index.html does not.). To note, I’m also asked to sign in even though I’ve configured Plex to not require it on my subnet. I think this issue may have something to do with my Network config or perhaps I’ve formatted something in it incorrectly, so below are my settings for PMS Network:

  • Enable IPv6: Disabled
  • Secure Connections: Preferred
  • Custom certificate location: C:\ssl\mydomain.pfx
  • Custom cert encryption key: CertsPassword
  • Custom Cert Domain: mydomain.com
  • Network Interface: All (I have many virtual NICs, but only one is listed here anyways - Ethernet 192.168.0.25)
  • GSM Discovery: Enabled
  • Remote Streams allowed: Unlimited
  • LAN Networks: 192.168.0.1/24
  • Treat WAN IP as LAN Bandwidth: Enabled
  • Custom server access URLS: https://mydomain.com/plex
  • List of IPs & networks allowed without auth: 192.168.0.1/24,192.168.240.1,192.168.132.1,10.0.75.1,172.24.76.97,192.168.1.1/24 (Included all after first subnet today as they are ranges of my virtual NICs)
  • Enable HTTP Pipelining: Enabled
  • Webhooks: Enabled

Finally, below is a snippet of my NGINX config which configures how Plex is forwarded to https://mydomain.com/plex via reverse proxy:

location /plex/ {
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:32400/;
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
# Websockets
proxy_http_version 1.1;
proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
proxy_set_header Connection “upgrade”;
}
if ($http_referer ~* /plex/) {
rewrite ^/web/(.*) /plex/web/$1? redirect;
}

Any suggestions / thoughts? Thanks!

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