Plex Media Server won't connect after install

Plex Media Server Desktops & Laptops
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Bodhi 5.0 (Ubuntu 18.04)

I just installed plex media server. It appears to be running. But I cannot connect to it from web interface. I disabled vpn as advised. I have no firewall. What else is there?

bodhi@VPCF115FM:~$ sudo systemctl status plexmediaserver
● plexmediaserver.service - Plex Media Server for Linux
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/plexmediaserver.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Sat 2018-08-11 13:46:35 PDT; 13min ago
 Main PID: 6764 (sh)
    Tasks: 5 (limit: 4915)
   CGroup: /system.slice/plexmediaserver.service
           ├─6764 /bin/sh -c LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/plexmediaserver "/usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Media Server"
           └─6765 /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Media Server

Aug 11 13:46:35 VPCF115FM systemd[1]: Starting Plex Media Server for Linux...
Aug 11 13:46:35 VPCF115FM systemd[1]: Started Plex Media Server for Linux.

I’ve tried http://localhost:32400/web as well as replacing localhost with 127.0.0.1 and my local and internet ip’s (hostname -I) and none work. Tried chromium and firefox. Tried reinstalling plex various ways, including downloading deb from official plex site.

This same computer runs plex server fine under windows 10; I’m thinking of making a more permanent move to linux so need plex running first…

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Bodhi is not a supported or even tested distro.

Ubuntu, Debian, Centos, and Fedora are the supported distros.

I suggest you first make the step to one of them.

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Bodhi is Ubuntu, and already have a few other computers running it, so not switching distros. Thanks for the suggestion tho.

Any other suggestions? Maybe a log I should look at? Or something else I can try?

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Respectfully, I disagree.

If it were ubuntu, it would be so listed but instead I find it

https://www.bodhilinux.com/

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Well I figured out my problem. I was following a guide to migrate a windows install but improvised a bit cuz I wanted to link instead of copy. Anyways tried it without that and was able to connect to web server fine with default install. Then figured out why my windows migration didn’t, I had to mount my ntfs drive as plex because one cannot chown on ntfs partitions. So now all is working.

My basic method, after modifying fstab to mount my ntfs drive with the uid/guid of plex, was to link my windows plex media server directory into /var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support. I copied the freshly installed Plex Media Server directory overtop w/o overwriting to get the linux codecs and xml file in there. Then run web admin to update library paths to linux version. Seems to be working.

root@VPCF115FM:/home/bodhi# cd '/var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support' root@VPCF115FM:/var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support# ls -l total 4 lrwxrwxrwx 1 plex plex 55 Aug 12 17:01 'Plex Media Server' -> '/media/Plex/Users/Craig/AppData/Local/Plex Media Server'

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