Initial server setup wizard is not starting up

[hiro5id]

Server Version#: 4.69.1

I am running plex via docker from Docker

I am able to start the server and according to the logs even claim the server via claim code.
I see this in the log:

Server claimed successfully, navigate to http://serverip:32400/web to complete plex setup.

But when I navigate to http://localhost:32400/web
it just takes me thorugh the login, which succeeds, but the server setup wizard is skipped, and when I click media all I see is “Add your media to Plex” and button “Get Plex Media Server”

I have even tried using local IP address “http://172.5.1.127:32400/web” and the same result.

I have read numerous on-line forums for people having the same problem but nothing works for me. I have tried re-setting the docker container as well to run from scratch, and again same result.

What am I doing wrong?? This shouldn’t be this hard

[hiro5id]

UPDATE:

Ok after trying and retrying over and over for over 2 hours I somehow got it to work… I don’t know if it is just a co-incidence, but when I used the address http://127.0.0.1/web that seemed to have triggered the server setup.

I don’t know why I was struggling so much before, I haven’t done anything different. It seems weird to me that localhost wouldn’t have worked but 127.0.0.1 did work.

[OttoKerner]

@hiro5id

have even tried using local IP address “http://172.5.1.127:32400/web” and the same result.

The server setup wizard only starts if the server is accessed from within the local network.

But since the above address is not within a “private” IP range, there is no local network.

localhost is not an IP, but a hostname.
I assume, you’d need a fitting entry in the hosts file for it to work.