# Plex cannot find local server **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussions\ **Created:** [December 29, 2016, 11:29pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-cannot-find-local-server/173473 "2016-12-29T23:29:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Benable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Benable](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Benable)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2016, 11:29pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-cannot-find-local-server/173473/1 "2016-12-29T23:29:37Z")
I downloaded and installed Plex-Media-Server-1.3.3.3148-b38628e on my computer and am trying to setup my library but when I try to open Plex and sign in via Chrome on the same computer it is telling me that no Server is found and to download the Media Server. The weird thing is that I had the older version of Plex installed before and was connecting to my friend’s server remotely just fine. I’ve tried to trouble shoot and have searched the forums but nothing works. ---
**Author:** ![Benable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Benable](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Benable)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2016, 11:31pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-cannot-find-local-server/173473/2 "2016-12-29T23:31:36Z")
I’m running Windows 7 btw. ---
**Author:** ![sa2000](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/sa2000/32/6922_2.png) [@sa2000](https://forums.plex.tv/u/sa2000)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2016, 12:03am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-cannot-find-local-server/173473/3 "2016-12-30T00:03:07Z")
Does Plex Media Server.exe process show up in Windows Task Manager ? You can see if there are no logs that got written to By default they would be in this folder `C:\Users\xxxxx\AppData\Local\Plex Media Server\Logs` where xxxxx is the windows account you launched Plex Media Server.exe in Also when it says there is no server, do you see a button for Settings and then Web settings? If you do, enable verbose logging there: Show Advanced, Debug, Verbose logging and save changes. Then refresh to try and access the server and when the error occurs, take screenshot and get the web log Settings / Web / Show Advanced / Debug / View Log Select All and copy to text file Attach server logs and web log and screenshot A number of users reported an issue with attaching files here. This has been reported to vanilla team. If you do get that problem, please upload on dropbox or google drive etc and share link here ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 10:30pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-cannot-find-local-server/173473/4 "2020-01-07T22:30:00Z")