I’m having issue with the setup. I installed it with the .deb file for Ubuntu and when I originally went to the page (serverip:32400), it asked for the login and that was it. It just went to the library page. Any help?

Bundled meaning the normal app.plex.tv right? It doesn’t show up

no… when setting your server up you must access it through its local IP address and from within the same subnet. If you’re accessing it from a browser on the same machine that’ll be http://127.0.0.1:32400/web (referring to the localhost) – otherwise it’s http://[PMS IP address]:32400/web. If the s…

Ah I see, it still doesn’t show up there either. ([image]

Can you go through the full uninstall procedure as linked above? Make sure to really delete all the config files and the server data directory. Once this is done, restart the Plex Media Server service and retry connecting through the local IP address once more.

I uninstalled the server now. The service is restarted and the page refused to connect.

you might want to reboot the machine before you try again :wink:

What exact URL are you using? Are you on that same machine and inside the same subnet? Are you getting a particular error message when it’s not working? I take it this is still the manually installed / regular DEB package.

http://SERVERIP:32400 It’s a VPS that isn’t local. I uninstalled it via 134 dpkg -r plexmediaserver 135 cd 136 rm -rf /var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/

ok… if you uninstalled the service, it’ll certainly no longer be accessible :wink: can you re-install the .deb file and subsequently make sure to connect through a SSH tunnel to your VPS? From the server setup article: On a Different Network If you’re on a different network than the server compu…

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Plex Media Server

andymatax August 21, 2021, 1:55am 24

Ah I see. I got it now.

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