Plex

A self hosted plex server for home videos.

Configuration

File System

Create the following mounted folders or connect a drive with your data.

  • /pwspoola/plex/tvseries
  • /pwspool/archive/plex/movies
  • /pwspool/archive/plex/photos
  • /pwspool/archive/plex/homevideos
  • /pwspool/archive/plex/transcode
  • /pwspool/archive/plex/downloads

Downloads Configuration

Requires that the /transcode and /downloads directories are created and linked.

  1. Configure Settings > Transcoder > Transcoder Temporary Directory = /transcode mount on container.
  2. Configure Settings > Transcoder > Downloads Temporary Directory = /downloads mount on container.
  3. Configure Settings > Network > Custom Server Access URLs to be a CSV of locations to access through.
  • For local this is http://192.168.1.XXX:32400, for prod this is the domain.

Setup

When navigating to plex, assuming no nginx routing is happening, you must go to https://[url]/web/index.html#!/ for first time setup.