Can someone please help me. My plex disappeared. I know it may seem too little information but I am serious here. My server was unconnectable, I tried to reinstall the docker after I wiped the plex folder from the appdata and I literally can’t do anything. I get no server tab. I am running on unRaid right now and it’s will not start the server setup wizard, using the URL trick ‘http://10.10.30.99:32400/manage/index.html#!/setup’ won’t work. I have removed and readded the docker. and this is all I get.
I paid for Plex lifetime and I need this to be working. I don’t even care if I have to start all over, it simply won’t work. I have tried Binhex, Linuxserver.io, limetech, AND the official Plex dickers and literally, nothing works. I tried to ‘remove server’ and of course, I can’t add it back since it’s not working. I need to be able to manually tell plex to just make a new server and it simply won’t do it!
The initial setup is only available from the local network of your PMS server for security reasons. So with docker, that’s the docker internal network by default. It’s all discussed in the PMS setup instructions.
So, if you want to use docker, use the plexinc docker image and either set PLEX_CLAIM [1] at first start (a claim token is only valid for 4 minutes!) or set the network mode of your container temporarily to “host” and use the ssh tunnel instructions [2].
Im from inside my own network and I most certainly did have it set to ‘host’ already it should have been working. Nothing in those two links works. It’s as if the server isn’t even there. I have tried assigning a static IP to the docker, nothing, host, nothing. If what you say is how it is with the subnets and such, perhaps Plex is somehow refusing to put itself in my subnet? How can I manually force it?
Please show me your docker / docker-compose configs and tell me more about your network. We can do this via PM if you prefer. It’s trivial to fix when I have all the details.
Thank you very kindly for the offer to assist, but I figured it out and have handled the situation with the help of a few guys on the unRaid forums. Seems that I had added a secondary docker network while following a tutorial for another container entirely and Plex was binding to that. So the fix was to disable user defined networks allowing me to then remove the offending subnet and magically, Plex just started working just like I expected it to. Having an easier time making the docker bind to any subnet at the users choice would really be a good idea here I think for the docker image. Either way, I did get it working now.