How to Setup an SSL Certificate for Plex using Nginx Proxy Manager

This tutorial will show you how to expose Plex to the internet and create an SSL certificate for it! Securely access Plex anywhere! DISCLAIMER: The information in this video has been self-taught through years of technical tinkering. While we do our best to provide accurate, useful information, we make no guarantee that our viewers will achieve the same level of success. WunderTech does not assume liability nor responsibility to any person or entity with respect to damage caused directly or indirectly from its content or associated media. Use at your own risk.

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[jamier]

Good video and nice point at the end about Plex showing it’s not accessible.

Couple ideas for future videos if you are looking for topics: updating and dynamic IP if you have a purchased domain (not with duck ddns or no-ip for example) and bonus if you use Cloudflare, securing servers you expose to the internet past reverse proxy (fail-to-ban, changing ssh ports, block lists, etc).

Keep up the great content!

[GYTZ]

Thanks for your videos, I have NGINX set up on a Raspberry Pi 4 and its working well, but how do I set up my plex devices to talk to my domain? For example the Plex App in iOS it only lest you enter an ip address!

[louisshade]

update from 23 min ago i just needed to go into plex remote acess setting and un tick Manually specify public port after setting everything up works awsome now

[eeeeeesy]

I too am getting an internal error when I try to save the ssl cert. I see someone else had this problem but you didnt say how to fix it. Could you let me know what to try? Im using a noip account with duc and have specified my noip host name, and the plex machine static internal ip and port in nginx manager. My external IP is also a static IP that does not change.

[DanielNuske]

Hi there! Thank you for the video! what is not clear to me is if I should create new Docker containers using the npm_bridge. I tried using the regular bridge and the reverse proxy does not find the source upstream, and when I try using the npm_bridge from the other video I get an error at container creation saying "no available IPv4 addresses on this network's address pool" . I ask here after googling, but is getting hard to find out. Any ideas might help. Thanks!

[qwe]

Is there any way to set up plex through a proxy and preserve the normal remote access functionality, so that the app versions of plex can Automatically connect?

[SuperMari]

This was a good start to improve the security on my server but I am kind of lost when it comes to using the domain as a means to have mobile users connect to it. When I turn remote access off I can use my domain to log in just fine but on mobile apps the server gets lost and I have no idea how to point the clients to my domain instead of through Plex. Got any pointers?

[bryonmiller]

This looks so easy, I have plex setup, I have my webservice running on ubuntu, it has apache and nginx, I'm having to learn Linux as I do this and it's been nothing but a pain in the ass so far and my familiarity with the Amiga CLI from yesteryear is the only reason I'm able to stumble through most of this. Does Nginx proxy manager have a GUI that exists for Ubuntu or Linux? You can request an SSL by just clicking buttons? I've been having a hard time getting an SSL to work because my ISP blocks port 80 and all the automated tools use port 80 so they all fail for me.

[Findanish]

I'm trying to use my custom domain for OMV5 on port 90 with Cloudflare and its giving me a 523 error. Do i need to forward ports if I am using Nginx proxy manager? I have installed NPM on docker/portainer over OMV5 if that helps!

[TungNguyen-wloe]

Hi bro. I want to add another port. For example 8096 is for emby but still uses the same domain. Is there a way to deploy. Thank you. Sorry my english is not good

[brace]

How do I get on the panel screen on Nginx Proxy Manager? is that a synology package I can install? or a remote website? I can't find it

[christophecorneillie]

Is using Plex via a reverse proxy not risky since you could unwillingly expose private movies and photos to the Internet? Is the reverse proxy secure enough to avoid the bad guys from accessing private movies and films? Or is strong password with MFA the answer? Thanks, I really appreciate your videos. I would appreciate a video on securing existing docker containers. E.g. what if you have a docker container running as root? Or mutliple docker containers running as an administrator account? How can you fix that? E.g. create a new user dedicated for the exection of that container and only with access / ownership to the docker folder. Kind regards, Christophe

[NerdGamerGeek]

which ports do i have to forward? 443 -> 443 and 80->80 with both of them having the nginx ip?

[klassical]

How would users outside my network access plex if they are using a player? (Roku, Firestick, Apple TV, ...). Would it work? From my understanding, their sub account that I have created is getting the information from the Remote Access in my plex settings. How will their account get my subdomain to access my server?

[ptc]

Could this be possible or useful to access plex from remote behind a Carriare Grade NAT? I just have plex on my Desktop PC and want to access it from remote, my ISP has a CG-NAT system and I don't want to switch with a public static IP address.

[punchnergy]

So this method is as secure as the normal Plex ssl encryption they already have?
I always have an internal error when trying to apply SSL.
On my DNS (Cloudflare) i've created a A record with the IP of the Plexserver. Is that wrong?

[DavidRamgobin]

Tried all the steps here, but kept coming up with an Internal Error when requesting a new SSL cert. Basically stuck at this step. Also tried looking around for a workaround/solution but nothing seems to work.

[freekmccoy]

would one use this method if Plex is being blocked on a work pc

[OzDeaDMeaT]

Will the App work from behind a reverse proxy?

[RagaiMeena]

How do u add the domain to a Plex client such as the Android app?