Plex Web Unavailable for my Server. Works For Others

[AmazingRando24]

An interesting thing started happening today…

When I sat down in front of my desktop, Plex Web was sitting there, as it always is in an open browser tab. I installed a new antenna yesterday, so I decided to scan for new channels to see if anything new would populate today. Shortly after I initiated that scan, my server became unavailable to me in Plex Web. No big deal… I restarted the server and reset the tab. The server showed for about 5 seconds and then went dark.

It still functions perfectly from client devices. She’s serving up files as expected. The PC (not the PMS PC) I normally use at home runs on a VPN, so I didn’t think much of it. I thought I’d check again when I got to work. When I got here, it was the same story… 5 seconds of view, then fade to black. I checked from my phone… again, 5 seconds of access, with the ability to move around, then it goes unavailable. Attempted an insecure connection… no go.

Oddly enough, I can still get to a friend’s server on all of these PCs… likely running a slightly older version of PMS, since he’s not too quick to update, and he doesn’t run beta updates.

Any thoughts would be appreciated. I have not yet tried accessing directly from the PC hosting PMS. If I lose it there… I’m not sure how to diagnose it or get logs.

EDIT: Probably important to add, that it continues to show up in the server list. It appears as Unavailable.

[AmazingRando24]

Remoted into the PMS PC from my phone. Confirmed that PMS is running, and Plex Web is accessible. Not available outside for some odd reason.

This post may be a boon. I manually re-enabled remote access and everything appears to be working. Odd that it would turn itself off…

EDIT: Double checking Remote Access solved all of my issues, which makes sense since the PC I normally use is considered an outside PC due to the VPN. Also makes sense that everything in the house worked fine.