Cannot connect to Plex webui running in my container

[adeldiah]

Is there an existing issue for this?

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Current Behavior

When I browse to the Plex server via my media server's ip I get the message "This site can't be reached".

The URL is http://serverip:32400

I get this message whether I attempt access while physically on the media server or remotely via a web browser

Expected Behavior

To be able to connect to Plex service via webui via my media servers IP and the Plex port

Steps To Reproduce

1. From web browser type http://serverip:32400

Environment

- OS: Sonoma 14.1.2
- How docker service was installed: In portainer as a stack

CPU architecture

arm64

Docker creation

version: "3"
services:
  plex:
    image: lscr.io/linuxserver/plex:latest
    container_name: plex
    environment:
      - PUID=501
      - PGID=502
	  - VERSION=latest
      - TZ=America/Los Angeles
      - PLEX_CLAIM= #Removed
    volumes:
      - /Users/<user>/Documents/Docker/Plex/config:/config
      - /Volumes/Elements/data/media:/data/media/
    network_mode: host
    restart: "unless-stopped"

Container logs

[migrations] started
[migrations] no migrations found
───────────────────────────────────────
      ██╗     ███████╗██╗ ██████╗ 
      ██║     ██╔════╝██║██╔═══██╗
      ██║     ███████╗██║██║   ██║
      ██║     ╚════██║██║██║   ██║
      ███████╗███████║██║╚██████╔╝
      ╚══════╝╚══════╝╚═╝ ╚═════╝ 
   Brought to you by linuxserver.io
───────────────────────────────────────
To support LSIO projects visit:
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───────────────────────────────────────
GID/UID
───────────────────────────────────────
User UID:    501
User GID:    502
───────────────────────────────────────
**** Server already claimed ****
No update required
[custom-init] No custom files found, skipping...
Starting Plex Media Server. . . (you can ignore the libusb_init error)
[ls.io-init] done.
Critical: libusb_init failed

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[j0nnymoe]

Host mode doesn't work on macOS.

[adeldiah]

Thank you. So just remove the line from the yaml and re-deploy the stack?

[adeldiah]

I got it to work by mapping the ports correctly. Thank you for pointing out that host network mode is not supported.

[pebroz]

Same here, quickly reverted to version 1.32.8.7639-fb6452ebf-ls196 to have the service working.

Host mode on Linux (Unraid). Thanks for posting the information.

[ItsJamesMurray]

Am I good to revert to 1.32.8.7639-fb6452ebf-ls196 and then go back to latest once resolved? Or am I better off not using host and and mapping ports?

[j0nnymoe]

There's nothing to be resolved here? OP was using macos and that doesn't allow host mode.

[adeldiah]

Resolved. Host mode not supported on MacOS.

[andrewtnas]

I'm not on macOS (running ubuntu) but having the same issue, the container is up and running with no issues in the log, but can't access the web view. Any solution?

[aptalca]

Docker desktop also doesn't support host networking

Make sure to install docker engine from the official docker repo (not Ubuntu repo)