Plexamp Headless: Web interface with a reverse proxy

[jjoshau]

It would be great if the Plexamp Headless web interface played nice with a reverse proxy, specifically when hosting securely.

I’ve noticed a couple issues which seem to prevent this from working

• Its device knowledge/requests seem to be sniffed out from the following url
  • https://plex.tv/api/v2/resources?includeHttps=1&includeRelay=1
  • It’s unclear if it’s related, but this results in failed requests for servers with customized domains, as the plex port gets appended, (ie. https://my.domain.com:32400); though, all *.plex.direct:32400 requests succeed
• Its own /resources requests are always against its ip address, without a way to configure a custom domain. This results in an endless loop of GET requests being blocked due to mixed-content (insecure XHR from a secure domain) when attempting playback
  • http://IP_ADDRESS:32500/resources

I’m sure there’s other considerations here, but these were noticed with my initial naive attempt. Happy to provide any additional debugging support.

[jjoshau]

Here’s a stripped down nginx block used for testing:

server {
  listen 443 ssl;
  server_name  my.domain.com;

  ssl_certificate /etc/some/path/fullchain.pem;
  ssl_certificate_key /etc/some/path/privkey.pem;

  location / {
    proxy_pass http://IP_ADDRESS:32500/;
  }
}