I recently rebuilt my Plex Media Server box as a CentOS 7 VM running on Hyper-V on a Windows Server 2012 setup.
When I installed the rpm and started the service I found that I was unable to load the interface on my desktop. I knew that it was running because I installed netstat and I was able to see the port was open for traffic and I was also able to load the interface locally in lynx on the server.
UPDATE: At some point I rebuilt my server and I came back to this post to grab my config. It turns out that I had a typo in one place and a missing command in another. I have edited this post to correct the issues. I have followed the new steps on several machines and this process does work without adding additional files in: [code]/usr/lib/firewalld/services/[/code]
It turns out that there were two issues:
Disabling SELinux was as simple as editing the configuration file (/etc/selinux/config) and setting the value of selinux to disabled.
Dealing with firewalld was also initially simple as well:
[code language=”bash”]# systemctl stop firewalld[/code]
The problem with this approach is that I was completely disabling my server’s software firewall. The proper approach would be to create a ruleset that allows for the various ports of Plex Media Server to be open in my server’s active firewalld zone.
Fortunately this is relatively easy to accomplish:
- Create the new service configuration file in the services directory
[code language=”bash”]# vi /etc/firewalld/services/plexmediaserver.xml[/code] - Next add the ruleset using the XML format established for firewalld rules[code language=”xml”] plexmediaserver Plex TV Media Server
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- Save the service file
- Reload the firewalld configs [code language=”bash”]# firewall-cmd –reload
success[/code]
- Add the service to your active zone (by default it is the public zone, but I have changed my default zone to be the home zone)
- [code language=”bash”]# firewall-cmd –permanent –zone=public –add-service=plexmediaserver
success[/code] - Restart the firewalld service[code language=”bash”]# systemctl restart firewalld.service[/code]
- You can get the defined service list from firewalld as follows: [code language=”bash”]# firewall-cmd –get-services
RH-Satellite-6 amanda-client bacula bacula-client dhcp dhcpv6 dhcpv6-client dns freeipa-ldap freeipa-ldaps freeipa-replication ftp high-availability http https imaps ipp ipp-client ipsec iscsi-target kerberos kpasswd ldap ldaps libvirt libvirt-tls mdns mountd ms-wbt mysql nfs ntp openvpn plexmediaserver pmcd pmproxy pmwebapi pmwebapis pop3s postgresql proxy-dhcp radius rpc-bind rsyncd samba samba-client smtp ssh telnet tftp tftp-client transmission-client vdsm vnc-server wbem-https[/code]
Now that this is done you should be able to hit the Plex Media Server web interface from a web browser on any other machine in your network.