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upstream plex-upstream { | |
# change plex-server.example.com:32400 to the hostname:port of your plex server. | |
# this can be "localhost:32400", for instance, if Plex is running on the same server as nginx. | |
server plex-server.example.com:32400; | |
} | |
server { | |
listen 80; | |
# server names for this server. | |
# any requests that come in that match any these names will use the proxy. | |
server_name | |
tv | |
plex | |
tv.example.com | |
plex.example.com; | |
# this is where everything cool happens (you probably don't need to change anything here): | |
location / { | |
# if a request to / comes in, 301 redirect to the main plex page. | |
# but only if it doesn't contain the X-Plex-Device-Name header | |
# this fixes a bug where you get permission issues when accessing the web dashboard | |
if ($http_x_plex_device_name = '') { | |
rewrite ^/$ http://$http_host/web/index.html; | |
} | |
# set some headers and proxy stuff. | |
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr; | |
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; | |
proxy_redirect off; | |
# include Host header | |
proxy_set_header Host $http_host; | |
# proxy request to plex server | |
proxy_pass http://plex-upstream; | |
} | |
} |
Does somebody has the right configuration for Plex with HTTPS ?
👍 thanks
I'm very new to nginx and I've tried using this gist but to redirect traffic to plex when fetching from domain.tld/location instead of just domain.tld. E.g.: my.server.com/plex. I've tried the rewrite rule mentioned earlier but without success. Anyone has got this going, and if so, care to share the solution?
If somebody wants to get /plex
path to work, I have published my nginx configs for /plex
and /deluge
over at https://github.com/alexgorbatchev/nginx-plex-deluge-proxy
I tried your conf file and it works great, however when I load my dashboard it can't reach my server. Could the NAT be causing the issue? Am currently Mapping a public IP to a private IP(Proxy) which then sends the request to the actual Plex server. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Awesome <3
Hey, thanks so much for this it really helped a lot! I had to modify it a little bit to get Plex working properly on my server so I'm dropping some information here in case anybody else runs into my problem.
OS: CentOS 7
Server version: 0.9.12.11.1406-8403350
Whenever I opened Plex in my browser and started clicking around I kept getting kicked back to the login screen and a notification would show saying
"<host> went away."
This happened very frequently and would even interrupt shows I was watching and kick me back to the login page.
I checked the activity log and saw multiple instances of the same message.
Unable to listen for events on <host>
I looked in the nginx error log file (/var/log/nginx/error.log) and I found these error messages
2015/09/16 23:24:17 [error] 30117#0: *39 connect() failed (111: Connection refused) while connecting to upstream, client: 192.168.1.245, server: <host>, request: "GET /status/sessions HTTP/1.1", upstream: "http://[::1]:32400/status/sessions", host: "<host>", referrer: "http://<host>/web/index.html"
2015/09/16 23:25:14 [error] 30117#0: *88 upstream prematurely closed connection while reading response header from upstream, client: 192.168.1.245, server: <host>, request: "GET /:/websockets/notifications HTTP/1.1", upstream: "http://127.0.0.1:32400/:/websockets/notifications", host: "<host>"
2015/09/16 23:25:14 [error] 30117#0: *88 connect() failed (111: Connection refused) while connecting to upstream, client: 192.168.1.245, server: <host>, request: "GET /:/websockets/notifications HTTP/1.1", upstream: "http://[::1]:32400/:/websockets/notifications", host: "<host>"
2015/09/16 23:25:14 [error] 30117#0: *39 no live upstreams while connecting to upstream, client: 192.168.1.245, server: <host>, request: "GET / HTTP/1.1", upstream: "http://plex-upstream/", host: "<host>", referrer: "http://<host>/web/index.html"
After searching around for a long time with no results I noticed the config file posted by @techmunk and decided to take some pieces of it to see if they helped. The following is the resulting config file which solved my problem.
upstream plex-upstream {
# change plex-server.example.com:32400 to the hostname:port of your plex server.
# this can be "localhost:32400", for instance, if Plex is running on the same server as nginx.
server localhost:32400;
}
server {
listen 80;
# server names for this server.
# any requests that come in that match any these names will use the proxy.
# replace <host> with actual server name (obviously).
server_name <host>
# this is where everything cool happens (you probably don't need to change anything here):
location / {
# if a request to / comes in, 301 redirect to the main plex page.
# but only if it doesn't contain the X-Plex-Device-Name header
# this fixes a bug where you get permission issues when accessing the web dashboard
if ($http_x_plex_device_name = '') {
rewrite ^/$ http://$http_host/web/index.html;
}
# set some headers and proxy stuff.
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
# include Host header
proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
# proxy request to plex server
proxy_pass http://plex-upstream;
proxy_redirect off;
proxy_buffering off;
proxy_http_version 1.1;
proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";
proxy_read_timeout 36000s;
}
}
I no longer have any problems and the activity log shows the proper message
Opened connection to <host>, listening for events.
Hopefully this helps someone else who is having the same issue I was.
Getting errors trying to set this up in my existing nginx proxy...
Creating a new CONF for plex = http://pastebin.com/HUb8byv1
Creating a new CONF for plex-specific proxy = http://pastebin.com/TVb08q93
Output when restart nginx = http://pastebin.com/RNBZmm07
Please note using an IP address or resolved name makes no difference...
Any ideas?
@james-d-hasselman solution worked for me with plex-pass version 0.9.15.1.
With redirecting to /web/index.html as above I had a problem connecting via the Plex.tv web app (with custom server access URL defined). I got a Response for preflight is invalid (redirect)
message in the Chrome dev console.
If this happens to you, only redirect with its not an OPTIONS requests as below.
# Redirect if not an options request.
if ($request_method != OPTIONS ) {
set $test A;
}
if ($http_x_plex_device_name = '') {
set $test "${test}B";
}
if ($test = AB) {
rewrite ^/$ http://$http_host/web/index.html;
}
I had to add this for playing to work:
proxy_set_header X-Plex-Client-Identifier $http_x_plex_client_identifier;
Wow this drove me absolutely nuts, thank you so much @thomasjwebb
Used @james-d-hasselman's code plus @thomasjwebb's header. worked perfectly. thanks guys
I've managed to get the streaming working over the web in browser with the header from @thomasjwebb, but my Android clients fail to stream, the message recommends to restart the client and server.
iOS works fine.
Any suggestions?
I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, this code doesn't seem to work. I tried Subtletree's combo of hasselman and thomaswebb's code and was met with this message:
nginx: [emerg] "upstream" directive is not allowed here in /usr/local/etc/nginxnginx.conf:1
I even went as far as copying the code directly from the zip and unzipping the file directly in it's place and get the same error message? I'm using nginx-1.8.1_2,2.
I don't know a terrible amount about reverse proxies except that I set up the first one for the majority of the services running in my Freenas box, and I wanted to get this to work for Plex to make it easier to access from everywhere. I will continue to read the documentation about nginx to see if I have something wrong or what have you until I see someone respond. Do I need to install additional packages to get this to work? Thank you for any insight into the matter!
update... got this to work. Problem was missing a lot of necessary code I think... I had to add some of the basic data like worker_processes 1; and some other code; is that code truly necessary for this to work? updated code below:
#user nobody;
worker_processes 1;
#error_log logs/error.log;
#error_log logs/error.log notice;
#error_log logs/error.log info;
#pid logs/nginx.pid;
events {
worker_connections 1024;
}
http {
include mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;
#log_format main '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
# '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
# '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';
#access_log logs/access.log main;
sendfile on;
#tcp_nopush on;
#keepalive_timeout 0;
keepalive_timeout 65;
#gzip on;
upstream plex-upstream {
# change plex-server.example.com:32400 to the hostname:port of your plex server.
# this can be "localhost:32400", for instance, if Plex is running on the same server as nginx.
server localhost:32400;
}
server {
listen 80;
# server names for this server.
# any requests that come in that match any these names will use the proxy.
# replace <host> with actual server name (obviously).
server_name plex
tv;
# this is where everything cool happens (you probably don't need to change anything here):
location / {
# if a request to / comes in, 301 redirect to the main plex page.
# but only if it doesn't contain the X-Plex-Device-Name header
# this fixes a bug where you get permission issues when accessing the web dashboard
if ($http_x_plex_device_name = '') {
rewrite ^/$ http://$http_host/web/index.html;
}
# set some headers and proxy stuff.
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header X-Plex-Client-Identifier $http_x_plex_client_identifier;
# include Host header
proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
# proxy request to plex server
proxy_pass http://plex-upstream;
proxy_redirect off;
proxy_buffering off;
proxy_http_version 1.1;
proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";
proxy_read_timeout 36000s;
}
}
}
I had to add a few things to get this all working:
# Plex headers
proxy_set_header X-Plex-Client-Identifier $http_x_plex_client_identifier;
proxy_set_header X-Plex-Device $http_x_plex_device;
proxy_set_header X-Plex-Device-Name $http_x_plex_device_name;
proxy_set_header X-Plex-Platform $http_x_plex_platform;
proxy_set_header X-Plex-Platform-Version $http_x_plex_platform_version;
proxy_set_header X-Plex-Product $http_x_plex_product;
proxy_set_header X-Plex-Token $http_x_plex_token;
proxy_set_header X-Plex-Version $http_x_plex_version;
proxy_set_header X-Plex-Nocache $http_x_plex_nocache;
proxy_set_header X-Plex-Provides $http_x_plex_provides;
proxy_set_header X-Plex-Device-Vendor $http_x_plex_device_vendor;
proxy_set_header X-Plex-Model $http_x_plex_model;
The /web redirect was also a problem with the Fire TV, it doesn't send headers, it uses query strings so I had to make some tweaks there too otherwise the Fire TV would say that it couldn't connect.
# Redirect if not an options request.
if ($request_method != OPTIONS ) {
set $test A;
}
if ($http_x_plex_device_name = '') {
set $test "${test}B";
}
if ($arg_X-Plex-Device-Name = '') {
set $test "${test}C";
}
if ($test = ABC) {
rewrite ^/$ https://$http_host/web/index.html;
}
Hopefully that helps someone.
Doonga - helped me, thanks!
I used Doonga's Headers but I'm not sure if it mattered. I used the orginal config in this gist but had to change proxy_pass http://plex-upstream; to proxy_pass http://plex-upstream/;
Notice the trailing / at the end? That made it work for me. Now when ever any one visits my URL they get plex and do not have to enter the port or the url.
This configuration forces me to log into Plex account from LAN. So I can reach the Web GUI only from localhost. I'm running Plex Server 1.1.4.2757.
Am I the only one having this weird thing going on?
Had some problems setting this up for plex, couchpotato, sabnzbd etc.
Problems seem to have been fixed by changing:
upstream plex-upstream {
server localhost:32400;
}
to:
upstream plex-upstream {
server 127.0.0.1:32400;
}
Hey all,
After a few hours of hacking and testing, I was able to get Plex Media Server v1.3.3.3148 working behind an NGINX reverse proxy on my local LAN, without it prompting for any authentication. Here is my gist with the configuration.
The key was the following configuration, which forces plex to see the request as coming from an IP in the whitelisted network:
proxy_set_header Host $server_addr;
proxy_set_header Referer $server_addr;
proxy_set_header Origin $server_addr;
Hope this helps others!
Devin
Having some problems with downloading (not streaming) movies from Plex, using this Nginx configuration.
The downloads stop after exactly 1024MB.
Any else tried to download something from their Plex server behind Nginx?
Edit: This is a Plex bug, I think.
https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/256039/download-stopping-at-exactly-1024mb#latest
https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/5ulg53/downloading_stops_after_1024mb/
So I am having this same problem on latest version of plex and version 1.10.2 of nginx.
Here is my code:
`upstream plex-upstream {
# change plex-server.example.com:32400 to the hostname:port of your plex server.
# this can be "localhost:32400", for instance, if Plex is running on the same server as nginx.
server asm-tv-pc01.me.local:32400;
}
server {
listen 80;
# server names for this server.
# any requests that come in that match any these names will use the proxy.
server_name
tv
plex
tv.example.com
plex.me.local;
# this is where everything cool happens (you probably don't need to change anything here):
location /plex {
# if a request to / comes in, 301 redirect to the main plex page.
# but only if it doesn't contain the X-Plex-Device-Name header
# this fixes a bug where you get permission issues when accessing the web dashboard
if ($http_x_plex_device_name = '') {
#rewrite ^/$ http://$http_host/web/index.html;
rewrite /plex(/.*) $1 break;
}
# set some headers and proxy stuff.
# Plex headers
proxy_set_header X-Plex-Client-Identifier $http_x_plex_client_identifier;
proxy_set_header X-Plex-Device $http_x_plex_device;
proxy_set_header X-Plex-Device-Name $http_x_plex_device_name;
proxy_set_header X-Plex-Platform $http_x_plex_platform;
proxy_set_header X-Plex-Platform-Version $http_x_plex_platform_version;
proxy_set_header X-Plex-Product $http_x_plex_product;
proxy_set_header X-Plex-Token $http_x_plex_token;
proxy_set_header X-Plex-Version $http_x_plex_version;
proxy_set_header X-Plex-Nocache $http_x_plex_nocache;
proxy_set_header X-Plex-Provides $http_x_plex_provides;
proxy_set_header X-Plex-Device-Vendor $http_x_plex_device_vendor;
proxy_set_header X-Plex-Model $http_x_plex_model;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_redirect off;
# include Host header
proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
proxy_set_header Host $server_addr;
proxy_set_header Referer $server_addr;
proxy_set_header Origin $server_addr;
# proxy request to plex server
proxy_pass http://plex-upstream;
}
}
`
Getting this in my logs:
2017/03/15 19:37:37 [error] 65282#100149: *1 open() "/usr/local/www/nginx/plex" failed (2: No such file or directory), client: 10.150.1.192, server: localhost, request: "GET /plex HTTP/1.1", host: "nginxtest.me.local"
2017/03/15 19:40:37 [error] 65944#100248: *2 open() "/usr/local/www/nginx/plex" failed (2: No such file or directory), client: 10.150.1.192, server: localhost, request: "GET /plex HTTP/1.1", host: "nginxtest.me.local"
2017/03/15 19:42:21 [error] 66013#100268: *1 open() "/usr/local/www/nginx/plex" failed (2: No such file or directory), client: 10.150.1.192, server: localhost, request: "GET /plex HTTP/1.1", host: "nginxtest.me.local"
thanks
Did you ever get it working @andrewm659 ?
Update: The original gist without the proxy_set_header
s as mentioned in follow-ups works well.
Thanks @spikegrobstein.
Quick question is it possible to do the following:
After setting up a Plex for remote access and registering such server with plex.tv.
And after sharing the libraries on this server with another user
can I then set up and twin server with the exact configuration
register that second server with plex.tv
Setup a proxy load balancer and have the user sign in at plex tv and see any of the two servers behind the proxy as one? That is the short version. Remember BOTH server are mirror images of each other...