Server Version#:latest as of 9/2/21
Player Version#:
Remote acees comes and goes - and so does my love for Plex!
Since the last two updates i’ve had issues with Plexc remote access coming and going.
Yesterday i rebooted my modem and pfsense firewall and updated my Plex to try and resolve this issue.
I believed it was an issue with my 4G router but was not convinced.
Looking through my logs for hours and i can see there are issues with my certificate and ive tried to fix that by adding it into the settings, having to translate it into specifically a PKCS #12 first!
It is becoming increasingly hard to keep plex running and “up” in these times of increasing security.
Im not an idiot, ive been in IT for years but messing with the 5 flavours of certificate to keep this going is getting tiring. I know i’ll have to do it again in May when this certificate expires
Im simply rolling back to a previous version and leaving it there.
If it keeps getting harder, my mates will have to pay for their own movies subscription and sort themselves out.
Seriously, if you have only limited knoweledge of IT, theres no way you’ll keep this server going nowadays!
In this forum area i see people have even bought new routers to try and resolve this issue
These are the important lines:
if I log to the the secure webpage on my server https://myserverdomain:32400 the certificates are in place and work fine.
Its possibly plex cant “staple the request” from Sectigo- but ive lost patience
Feb 10, 2021 08:31:10.420 [0x7f60b5f40700] DEBUG - PublicAddressManager: Obtaining public address and mapping port.
Feb 10, 2021 08:31:10.477 [0x7f605affd700] DEBUG - HTTP 200 response from PUT https://plex.tv/devices/xxxxxxxxxxxxxx?Connection[][uri]=https://plex.theslades.tk&Connection[][uri]=http://plex.xxxxx.tk&Connection[][uri]=http://192.168.2.25:32400&httpsEnabled=1&httpsRequired=0&dnsRebindingProtection=0&X-Plex-Token=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Feb 10, 2021 08:31:10.480 [0x7f605affd700] DEBUG - CERT: Certificate will not expire soon; we’ll check again in a week.
Feb 10, 2021 08:31:10.482 [0x7f60b573f700] DEBUG - [CERT] Subject name is /C=US/ST=California/L=Los Gatos/O=Plex, Inc./CN=*.xxxxx.plex.direct
Feb 10, 2021 08:31:10.482 [0x7f60b573f700] DEBUG - [CERT] Installed certificate with fingerprint xxxx3:a8:52:b2:cd:89.
Feb 10, 2021 08:31:10.482 [0x7f60b573f700] DEBUG - [CERT/OCSP] Stapling requests will be made to ‘http://ocspx.digicert.com/’.
Feb 10, 2021 08:31:10.482 [0x7f60b573f700] VERBOSE - [CERT/OCSP] Successfully generated stapling request
Feb 10, 2021 08:31:10.482 [0x7f60b573f700] INFO - [CERT/OCSP] Successfully retrieved response from cache.
Feb 10, 2021 08:31:10.485 [0x7f60b573f700] DEBUG - [CERT] Loaded a user-provided certificate.
Feb 10, 2021 08:31:10.485 [0x7f60b573f700] DEBUG - [CERT/OCSP] Stapling requests will be made to ‘http://ocsp.sectigo.com/’.
Feb 10, 2021 08:31:10.485 [0x7f60b573f700] VERBOSE - [CERT/OCSP] Successfully generated stapling request
Feb 10, 2021 08:31:10.485 [0x7f60b573f700] ERROR - [CERT/OCSP] Error opening file ‘"/var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Cache/OCSP/custom.der"’ - No such file or directory (2)
Feb 10, 2021 08:31:10.485 [0x7f60b573f700] WARN - [CERT] MyPlex: Invalid connection URL ‘’.
DEBUG - [CERT/OCSP] HTTP 200 response from GET http://ocsp.sectigo.com/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Feb 10, 2021 08:31:17.941 [0x7f608b7fe700] ERROR - [CERT/OCSP] response error: unauthorized.
Feb 10, 2021 08:31:17.941 [0x7f608b7fe700] INFO - [CERT/OCSP] couldn’t fetch a valid response; retrying in 10800 seconds
