Plex/Installation

Installation

Overview

Done on Centos 7 x64

Dependencies

~$ sudo yum install -y telnet net-tools vim tcpdump bind-utils redhat-lsb-core wget nfs-utils policycoreutils-python setroubleshoot setools 

Install Plex Server

Checksum: 5b8e3032e1751abdf6096f50e729a676e00bf94a

~$ wget https://downloads.plex.tv/plex-media-server-new/1.18.9.2571-e106a8a91/redhat/plexmediaserver-1.18.9.2571-e106a8a91.x86_64.rpm
~$ openssl sha1 plexmediaserver-1.18.9.2571-e106a8a91.x86_64.rpm
SHA1(plexmediaserver-1.18.9.2571-e106a8a91.x86_64.rpm)= 5b8e3032e1751abdf6096f50e729a676e00bf94a

Firewall

~$ sudo firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=32400/tcp --permanent
~$ sudo firewall-cmd --reload

Install

~$ sudo yum install -y plexmediaserver-1.18.9.2571-e106a8a91.x86_64.rpm

Add NFS v3 mount

test to make sure you can mount it.

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

make it permanent.

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

Configure the Plex Server

Go to: http://<ip address>:32400/web