


You must create an account on to get downloading link for installation of Plex. # sudo apt update & sudo apt upgrade Install Plex To execute this command, remember to login from non-root user with sudo privileges. Set up your server's hostname and create user with root privileges.īefore proceeding with installation of any kind of package, use the following command to update your Ubuntu system.Access to VNC console in your Alibaba Cloud or SSH client installed in your PC.Domain name must be pointed to your Alibaba Cloud ECS's IP address.If you have already registered a domain from Alibaba Cloud or any other host, you can update its domain nameserver records. A domain name registered from Alibaba Cloud.Your ECS instance must have at least 2GB RAM and 2 Core processor (2.4 GHz or higher). If you don't know about how to setup your ECS instance, you can refer to this tutorial or quick-start guide. If you are a new user, you can get $300 – $1200 worth in Alibaba Cloud credits for your new account. You must have Alibaba Cloud Elastic Compute Service (ECS) activated and verified your valid payment method.In this tutorial, we will be installing and setting up a Plex media server on an Alibaba Cloud Elastic Compute Service (ECS) with Ubuntu 16.04 installed.

It supports a wide range of file types and supports all the major platforms including Windows, Linux, and OS X. Plex is a free software that lets you to stream all of your stuff on any device anywhere in the world. Tech Share is Alibaba Cloud's incentive program to encourage the sharing of technical knowledge and best practices within the cloud community. I have tried to add a firewall rule in, but as it's a network NAS device, it doesn't show up as a Program Path and it does not allow you to enter in a custom local IP & port address without a valid Program Path.By Arslan Ud Din Shafiq, Alibaba Cloud Tech Share Author. There didn’t seem to be any true fix, it would just start working again a day or two later or sometimes I would need to stop the Plex app running on My Cloud and re-start it again. I tried Plex again and I was getting the same error I've always been getting. I didn't think it was related to BitDefender until after a reboot of an update, I got message when launching Sonos from my PC that it couldn't connect because my firewall rules had changed. It's something that been going on for a while and I had been going down the trouble shooting route of it being something to do with Plex & the WD My Cloud EX2 Ultra but I could not work out why it would just stop.

It would randomly when trying to connect via Google to the Plex library come up with error as attached. I've been experiencing an issue after updates have been applied to BitDefender Total Security 2017 that seem to block my local network connection running Plex on my NAS WD My Cloud EX2 Ultra.
