Plex not listening to any port, connection refused on Apache2 (subdomain) [Solved]

Plex Media Server Desktops & Laptops
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what is your locale set for ? Something with the base OS installation / character set is not right.

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again,

please do the removal and purge of the plex user as I instructed?

userdel plex
groupdel plex
rm -rf /var/lib/plexmediaserver

Now, so we can obtain better information about your installation, I would like you to use my Forum Beta installer from this thread. (this will be public release soon)

Latest version, which matches Plex Pass beta, is at the bottom.

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Never had any problems with my locale before but here it is :

root@VALIS:~# locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

And I gave the beta version a try, it seems to install just fine :

root@VALIS:~# dpkg -i plexmediaserver_1.16.4.1484-6d5612c2f_amd64.deb
Selecting previously unselected package plexmediaserver.
(Reading database ... 197082 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack plexmediaserver_1.16.4.1484-6d5612c2f_amd64.deb ...
PlexMediaServer installer: Pre-installation Validation.
PlexMediaServer installer: Pre-installation Validation complete.
Unpacking plexmediaserver (1.16.4.1484-6d5612c2f) ...
dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory '/etc/init': Directory not empty
Setting up plexmediaserver (1.16.4.1484-6d5612c2f) ...
PlexMediaServer installer:
PlexMediaServer installer: Now installing based on:
PlexMediaServer installer:   Process Control:    Systemd
PlexMediaServer installer:   Plex User:          plex
PlexMediaServer installer:   Plex Group:         plex
PlexMediaServer installer:   Video Group:        video
PlexMediaServer installer:   Metadata Dir:       /var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support
PlexMediaServer installer:   Temp Directory:     /var/lib/plexmediaserver/tmp_transcoding
PlexMediaServer installer:   Lang Encoding:      en_US.UTF-8
PlexMediaServer installer:   HW transcoding:     Not found
PlexMediaServer installer:
PlexMediaServer installer: Completing final configuration.
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/plexmediaserver.service â /lib/systemd/system/plexmediaserver.service.
PlexMediaServer installer: PlexMediaServer-1.16.4.1484-6d5612c2f - Installation successful.
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.28-10) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.62) ...

And now when I try to reach the webpage it spits PR_END_OF_FILE_ERROR at me. I’ll dig throught the logs later on. I’ve got to call it a day for now. Thanks again for the help. I’ll respond if I find anything interesting in the log. In the meantime please keep shooting ideas at me if you got any.

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When you next attempt, attempt using an incognito window in FireFox.

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incognito mode isn’t helping (and I ususally refresh page with ctrl+f5 to delete cookies).

Still a PR_END_OF_FILE_ERROR

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I don’t know where or how to proceed. Somehow the SSL sequence is corrupt and you are getting SSL errors. I can only surmise you’ve compromized something deep in the SSL/TLS layering.

This might be a good time to reinstall the entire OS fresh and leave the Apache out until after everything works as a basic system.

If you wish to continue, did you check https://www.wowza.com/community/questions/7506/ssl-error-pr-end-of-file-error.html

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Well I just tried to login from work and the webpage is up … Probably firefox’s cache got messed up at home (even in incognito ? weird).
Anyways the plex webpage is up and still “looking for servers”.

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two ways to do this on your home lan but

  1. If RFC-1918 compliant, you open the IP addr of the host in browser
    -or-

If not RFC-1918 LAN or host is not on the same subnet (remote hosts count as this condition)

  • SSH-tunnel to it using ssh -L 8888:127.0.0.1:32400 ip.addr.of.host ,
  • sign in, let sit idle,
  • open http://127.0.0.1:8888/web in your local incognito window
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And it’s working !

Not sure why my network is not RFC-1918 compliant thought … My server is hosted by http://online.net it’s a fixed IP and everything. I had to take the second route.

But anyways it’s finally working ! I’ll rewire vhosts later today, it shouldn’t be that hard now that everything works fine.

Anways I’ll give plex a week or so and except if I encounter any major hiccups I’ll probably get a life pass so I can set things properly for my family and friends. Thanks again @ChuckPa . I’m not sure what answer to select as “Solution”, so I’ll pick the last one for now and will probably edit a sum-up once in my first post for others later (after the vhosts shenanigans).

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