March 14, 20251 yr I upgraded my hardware today and had a 98% succuss rate. Went from Intel to AMD. No biggie. Swapped cache drives from a SSD to a NVME. No Biggie. Had to reinstall all my dockers. All my dockers came back and are running just fine. Except Plex. Plex lost my server. Doesn't matter which flavor of Plex I have installed. The WebUI works just fine from the dashboard. But it will not find its own server. I have followed dozens of guides. Delete this, reinstall that, Check IP's, Check ports, Check paths, Check files, do jumping jacks, ect...... Nothing has worked. The plex server seems to be non-existent within the WebUI from Unraid. It logs in fine. Its just not there.
March 14, 20251 yr Community Expert That looks OK. 14 minutes ago, VIthe3rd said: The WebUI works just fine from the dashboard. Do you mean the Plex webUI works if you click on its icon and select WebUI from the popup, but you can't access it from another computer?
March 14, 20251 yr Author No. That works just fine. The server is not showing up in the WebUI. No options No Library, Nothing. Its just not there.
March 14, 20251 yr Community Expert Why do you have a public IP? Looks like that public IP belongs to Xerox
March 14, 20251 yr Author The IP is not the issue. But It is my internal LAN IP I use. Been using it for years. I run an OPNsense box. My Local network is 13.13.1.XX
March 16, 20251 yr Author After hours of failures at attempting to get the Local Plex server to show up along with reading masses of unrelated threads and posts on Plex server issues, I finally stumbled upon a solution. It is up and running now.
March 16, 20251 yr Community Expert 18 minutes ago, VIthe3rd said: I finally stumbled upon a solution. You should share it
March 16, 20251 yr Author 1 hour ago, trurl said: You should share it The thing is that the Solution I found is an unknown fix. In my search of finding what was broke, and started to do multiple different "fixes" at a time, uploading multiple files, editing multiple files at a time, resetting files, deleting files, and so on, I do not know what the one variable was that made the "fix" happen. So I am still in the dark why the docker would start, Allow access to the WebUI, Tell me in console that the server was running without errors, but not find the server within the WebUI. That is all I have. Its solution that I did not document how I got it and how it happened.
March 16, 20251 yr Community Expert One of the reasons I questioned your IP is Plex needs to "phone home" to authenticate. https://support.plex.tv/articles/204604227-why-can-t-the-plex-app-find-or-connect-to-my-plex-media-server/
March 16, 20251 yr Author I am aware of that. But plex was running just fine for close to 2 years on that Lan IP. It had to be a docker issue. That was the only thing that changed. As close as i can get to explaining the solution is was, when that I swapped the cache drive from the ssd to the nvme i never copied the drive. I dumped the files from the old drive. Reinstalled Plex. Then took the those files from the ssd and replaced the new files in the new nvme cache drive. It was still not working till i rebooted. Then it was there.
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