Unable to claim 'headless' server

Server Version#: 1.15.0.659

I’ve installed the latest version of Plex on a dedicated virtual machine but cannot ‘Claim’ the PMS.
I’m running Centos 7 Minimal with no gui and can access the web gui of PMS from a remote machine but cannot claim it.

I’ve also tried tunneling to the machine with SSH as shown here but this doesn’t seem to work.

I’ve also tried the below suggestions but it didn’t work either:

  1. Stop PMS on the server machine
  2. SSH over to it (or log in there on the console),
  3. delete “/var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Preferences.xml”
  4. Start PMS

Has anyone got any suggestions of things to try?

Did you install from the downloaded RPM?

Which browser? Clear cache/incognito mode.

ssh user@serverip -L 8888:localhost:32400
http://localhost:8888/web

The RPM should have taken care of the firewall but you could try:

systemctl stop firewalld

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