Headless pc plex media player and server

#Headless pc plex media player and server install

Since we just created a movies folder, I will select movies here. Select вЂњADD LIBRARYвЂќ and you will be presented with a screen asking you what types of libraries you want to add. This is where the folder we created earlier will come in handy as a place to store all of our content. The next screen is the server setup screen, where you will give your server a friendly name.Д¬licking on вЂњNEXTвЂќ will take you to the вЂњMedia LibraryвЂќ tab. Open your browser and in the web address bar type in After this you will sign into your plex account and be presented with this window.Д¬lick on вЂњGOT IT!вЂќ to continue the setup. Now we can open a browser and configure plex as if we were doing it locally on the server. Change the command to fit your user and your servers IP address. I am going to ssh into the server again with different options on the command. Make sure you know the IP address of your plex server, if you donвЂ™t, you can use the ip command to find out. The command we are going to run will bind and open a connection that we can access locally on our main machine. So what we want to do is SSH into the server again but use some extra flags on the command. Since our server is headless, we cannot open a browser on it to continue with the setup. ~]$ sudo systemctl restart rvice Configuration and Setup on a Headless Server To make sure all of our changes go through and our setup goes correctly, restart the rvice. Since the plex user is in the user group, we shouldnвЂ™t have a problem with plex finding our content. ~]$ sudo chown jeff:jeff ~]$ chmod 755 /plexmovies/ Now letвЂ™s change ownership and permissions. Your group will be your username unless you have specifically made separate groups. That command adds plex to the group вЂњjeffвЂќ. Now we want to add the plex user to our user group, and change ownership so that plex will be able to read from the folder. We can just use a folder outside of our home and give plex access to it. So we donвЂ™t want to change permissions for our entire home folder. The reason for having it outside of the home folder is by default centOS only allows the owner of the home folder to access it, not any groups. в””в”Ђ2144 /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Relay -p 443 -N -R 0:127.0.0.1:>ДЄs a little preliminary measure before we set it up, letвЂ™s create a directory where we want to store our plex content outside of our home folder. в”њв”Ђ2116 Plex Plug-in /usr/lib/plexmediaserv> в”њв”Ђ2077 /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Tuner Service /usr/lib/plexmedi> в”њв”Ђ2035 Plex Plug-in /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Re> в”њв”Ђ2011 /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Media Server Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/rvice enabled ve>ДЄctive: active (running) since Tue 16:20:14 MDT 8min agoД¬Group: /system.slice/rvice

You can check the status of plex media server by issuing this command. LetвЂ™s enable it so that it starts at boot time. ItвЂ™s as easy as that! Plex media server is now installed on your headless server.

# ДЎ:plexmediaserver-1.-1f0ed# Д¬reated symlink /etc/systemd/system//rvice в†’ ~]$ Warning: 86_64.rpm: Header V4 RSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 3adca79d: NOKEY You need to use sudo to do it, otherwise you will get a permission denied error.

#Headless pc plex media player and server install

To install it we will use the rpm -ivh command. This will have downloaded the plexmediaserver rpm onto your system. You can find the most current version by going to the Plex Media Center Downloads page, which is located here. This is the current Plex Media Server as of this writing. This guide can be adapted to other linux operating systems as well, and should work with any rpm based distro, but I will be using centOS Stream. YouвЂ™re going to want to login to your server via SSH. This server can be bare metal or a VM, I will be installing onto a VM. This will be helpful for anyone running plex in a VM and doesnвЂ™t want a DE hogging resources. We are going to take a look at installing Plex Media Server on a headless linux server.