So Plex.TV was down this morning and this caused me some heartache. So I was trying to access my plex server locally on my network and I couldn’t because the authentication servers on Plex.tv were down. This seems like a very stupid way of doing things. If the server locally is up and running I should be able to access and authenticate locally it shouldn’t need to reach out to a server on the internet and check for credentials. Can someone explain the reasoning behind this.
Second sentence of OP’s post literally says they tried to access it via their local network. Anyway, +1 for local authentication support. I access my server via a reverse proxy and would appreciate the option to login with a local user account that is more secure than a 4 digit pin.
If you had understood the OG post it said I ttried to acces my plex server locally. So to be verbose here I tried the following:
I tried that 192.168.1.100:32400/web/
I even tried localhost:32400/web/
and it still wouldn’t work until plex.tv came back online. I even rolled back from 1.15 to 1.14 thinking it was new update error as I updated yesterday. Se even after I sudo apt purge 1.15 and installed 1.14 it asked to launch plex it took me to localhost:32400/web/ and it wouldn’t load. Once Plex.tv cameback up it was fine and I haven’t had a issue since. Yes the whole time this was happening I had internet access. I could ping 192.168.1.100 from another PC on the network.
Thanks for the tip. I was just starting to type and say that even now when I did 192.168.1.100:32400/web/ it redirected me to plex.tv authentication server.
I just updated setting as you suggested and no redirect. Seems like this should be default if accessing on local network.
