Plex/Installation

Installation

Overview

Done on Centos 7 x64

Dependencies

~$ printf '[PlexRepo]\nname=PlexRepo\nbaseurl=https://downloads.plex.tv/repo/rpm/$basearch/\nenabled=1\ngpgk/downloads.plex.tv/plex-keys/PlexSign.key\ngpgcheck=1' | sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/plex.repo
~$ sudo chown root:root /etc/yum.repos.d/plex.repo
~$ sudo chmod 644 /etc/yum.repos.d/plex.repo
~$ sudo yum clean expire-cache

Install Plex Server

~$ sudo yum install -y plexmediaserver

Add NFS v3 mount

test to make sure you can mount it.

~$ sudo mkdir -p /opt/plex
~$ sudo mount -t nfs freenas-server.com:/mnt/pool_02/Plex /opt/plex
~$ ls -la /opt/plex

make it permanent.

~$ sudo vim /etc/fstab
...
freenas-server.com:/mnt/pool_02/Plex        /opt/plex      nfs     defaults        0 0

Configure the Plex Server

Go to: http://<ip address>:32400/web Use /opt/plex as your Library

Library organization

Naming and Organizing
Using IMDb ID number {[source]-[id]}

/Media
   /Movies
      /Batman Begins (2005) {imdb-tt0372784}
         Batman Begins (2005) {imdb-tt0372784}.mp4
   /Music
      music content
   /TV Shows
      television content

Restarting Setup Wizard

This will remove your entire Library metadata. https://support.plex.tv/articles/201198426-restart-plex-media-server-setup-from-scratch/