I am thinking of putting my Plex Media Server behind a reverse proxy (where I will terminate SSL), and only reach the server via this proxy. In that case, can/should I disable Remote Access in my Plex server settings? Can I also set Secure Connections to Disabled, or is there any reason to keeping…

The remote access in Plex Settings is just to publish your server into plex.tv. This allows you to connect to Plex server just by logging into your account, from any device. You will still be able to reach your server with that option disabled, but you would need to configure the client to connect…

Thank you for your reply. Are you sure that clients would need to manually configure the server IP if I disable Remote Access? I just tried it and am still able to connect to the server. Maybe only new clients need to be configured manually?

You will be able to connect to it, but it won’t be a direct connection to the server. You are going to connect to it through a relay. [image] Accessing a Server through Relay | Plex Support One of the most important features of Plex is the ability to let you access your content whenever …

I have unchecked “Enable Relay” in the settings also, so I’m pretty sure the clients are connecting directly.

that is strange… Note, if you don’t enable “Remote access”, to publish your server in Plex.tv, how the users will be able to know the server IP address and port to connect to? You need to enable remote access, so users can reach your server directly, by just logging into the plex account. Let’s s…

I guess I should note that I have filled in my custom domain ( https://plex.domain.com ) under “Custom server access URLs”, so maybe this URL gets announced to plex.tv - even though I have Remote Access disabled?

hmm… https://support.plex.tv/articles/200430283-network/ Custom server access URLs A comma-separated list of URLs (either HTTP or HTTPS), which will be published to plex.tv for server discovery. This can be very useful in a few cases: if you’re using a VPN to get back home, if you’re using a reve…

Edited to confirm a few things: I believe: Plex always obtains a *.plex.direct SSL certificate. When Remote Access is disabled, Plex doesn’t try to use UPnP/NAT-PMP to establish an inbound port mapping. When Remote Access is disabled, Plex disables the Relay. (Confirmed) When Remote Access is dis…

[image] Volts: When Remote Access is disabled, does Plex still register the Custom Server Access URLs with the Plex Cloud? (Or to put it another way, are the Custom Server Access URLs always published?) From my testing so far, it seems so.

I suppose that statement is correct… Custom Server Access URLS publishes even with the Remote Access feature disabled…

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mcury March 3, 2021, 10:40pm 12

Now that you said it, I’ll have to perform a test to find out…

I’ll disable my remote access to confirm it…

Edit:

https://support.plex.tv/articles/216766168-accessing-a-server-through-relay/

It seems that you don’t need to enable remote access to get the proxy relay working…

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