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plex-tunnel

plex-tunnel is a simple configuration to help reroute your plex traffic through a VPS of your choosing, to help improve routing on your Plex streams.

Initial Setup​

caution

In order to setup the Plex tunnel, you need to setup your own external VPS. This is not provided by us. It must be provided by you. This tunnel is just an option to allow you to setup your own route to the server, rather than relying on the peering of the server to your ISP.

Once you have a VPS you like, you need to connect to your slot via SSH to run the setup. If you need help connecting to the server, please read the help article here.

Installing the plex tunnel is easy. Simply issue the following command:

box install plex-tunnel

You will need to following information:

  • The IP of your VPS
  • The SSH port to connect to your VPS (default 22)
  • The username you wish to create a connection with
  • Whether or not the user has root/sudo access
note

If you don't supply a root or sudo user, you'll have to change the configuration of your SSH daemon on your tunnel VPS manually.

  1. Add the line: GatewayPorts yes to /etc/ssh/sshd_config
  2. Restart your ssh daemon: sudo systemctl restart sshd :::

How to Access​

Once the tunnel has been created, you'll no longer be able to access Plex from the original hostname of your HostingByDesign slot. You'll only be able to access it from the plex.tv dashboard or directly from the VPS (e.g. https://<VPSIP>:32400)

Service Management​

Like all box configured applications, you can the tunnel via SSH with box with start, stop, restart, enable and disable commands.

import SystemdTabs from "../snippets/systemdtabs.mdx";