Many questions about installing

[douginoz]

I feel like I've lost half my brain or something! I'm trying to (re) install this 'fresh'. I've deleted my /config folder on ubuntu, did a docker pull of jkirkcaldy/plex-utills, and created a docker-compose. It starts, but I can't access any webui.

The installation instructions say it only needs port 80 (80:80), but that can't be right. There's no way this one application is going to take over my server's port 80 (http)! There must be some sort of redirect needed, ie. "5123:80" or something? Besides, looking at the console logs shows that the app is running on port 5000 but there's no mention of any port 5000 anywhere in the installation instructions.

The console log shows that the app is failing to find plex:

2022-06-15 21:40:01,328 - SYS - Setup Helper: Going though the setup helper.
2022-06-15 21:40:01,373 - SYS - HTTPConnectionPool(host='plex.url', port=32400): Max retries exceeded with url: / (Caused by NewConnectionError('<urllib3.connection.HTTPConnection object at 0x7ff08b1f9700>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno -2] Name or service not known'))
2022-06-15 21:40:01,374 - SYS - Setup Helper: Going though the setup helper.
2022-06-15 21:40:01,383 - SYS - Setup Helper: Going though the setup helper.
2022-06-15 21:40:01,394 - SYS - HTTPConnectionPool(host='plex.url', port=32400): Max retries exceeded with url: / (Caused by NewConnectionError('<urllib3.connection.HTTPConnection object at 0x7ff08b1f9730>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno -2] Name or service not known'))

Which is likely because I haven't told it where to find plex or anything yet. There's no config file I can edit to configure things. So I'm dead in the water with this.

Running on ubuntu 20.04, plex is also running on the same host (not in docker).

[jkirkcaldy]

You can map the port to any port you like. If you use a bridged network where each docker container gets it's own IP address you can keep it as port 80:80 if you use bridged or host, you can map it to any free port like 5123:80

I am testing a fix for the first setup error now. As you are correct, on first set up it wouldn't start as it can't connect to the plex server and you couldn't change the url without the container started.