In the folder, navigate to the conf folder.
Access the server and then navigate to the folder where Nginx was extracted. In this case, the domain is used to access Plex. This will allow you to provide custom server access URLs to your Plex server. The following steps explain how to configure Nginx to handle requests to the Plex server. Once Nginx is installed/extracted on your Plex Media server, you will now configure Nginx to manage all requests to your Plex installation. In the steps below, I will use, so you would just change that subdomain to whatever you choose. By using a subdomain, you can then use the same domain with other subdomains for different services on your local network. With a domain name you can then create a subdomain, such as that you can use for your Plex instance. Additional requirementsĪ good additional requirement to have is your own custom domain name. For my Windows server, I downloaded the zip file and extracted the file to a location on my server. The installation for Nginx is dependent on the operating system you are using. The software required is: Nginx The Nginx application is an open-source web server, load balancer and also a reverse proxy. The good news is that all software is free, so anyone can set up Plex is this manner. There isn't much that is required to set up Plex to use a Nginx reverse proxy. Required software for Plex to use a Nginx reverse proxy Keep in mind that I am using Windows, however, the steps outlined below should apply to any operating system supported by Plex. I will describe what I did in the sections below. It was surprising easy to set up Plex to use a Nginx reverse proxy on my local network. Reducing how many ports that are exposed from my server reduces the attack surface if someone were to gain access to my network. This means that I don't need to expose the standard Plex port 32400 from my server. Instead of accessing my Plex server using port 32400, with Nginx I can access Plex as I would connecting to any website - by using a custom domain for Plex. I can now access my Plex installation simply by connecting to my server, just as I would do when connecting to any website. By doing so, I have simplified the connection to my network services that are running on my server. I have set up my Plex to use a Nginx reverse proxy.
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