Plex Ssl Certificate
How plex is doing https for all its users.
Plex ssl certificate. The security provided by digicert to plex and their customers will be one of the largest implementations of publicly trusted certificates to date. This is actually pretty interesting. To learn more about free ssl certificates check the following plesk docs pages. At this stage an ssl certificate from lets encrypt is generated and set to secure the domain.
Getting free ssltls certificate from lets encrypt. Setup lets encrypt certificate for use with plex media server on ubuntu letsencrypthttpsplexmd. Heres how to use your own self signed ssl certificates to encrypt connection streams. The company is giving all of its customers both paid subscribers and free users an ssl certificate from a trusted authority for free.
Plex media server users just got an important upgrade. Thanks to this comment a while back that put me on the right track. While most users are familiar with ssl the secure certificates issued to your plex media server actually use tls an even higher level of security. I didnt find any definitive step by step guide to use my own self signed ssl certificates for pms so i wrote one here.
If youre interested in some of the more technical details filippo valsorda did an excellent writeup. Sign in sign up instantly share code notes and snippets. One of the great features with my synology nas is that it uses the let encrypt ssl certificates. Hi folks new to this rplex and a big fan of plex.
All gists back to github. This week plex a self hosted media server announced that they now offer tls to secure all connections including those to the users servers. A quick overview of the plex architecture to understand why this is different from the average https deployment. Guide using self signed ssl certificates for plex media server.
Plex is a fork of the open source kodi previously xbmc project from 2008 the plex media server has evolved into what amounts to a free personal netflix spotify that lets you stream home content to devices or browsers with an optional subscription model for added features. I am using my nas for personal use so i didnt want to spend money on a ssl certificate nor do i want to use a self signed one. Setup lets encrypt certificate for use with plex media server on ubuntu letsencrypthttpsplexmd. 7 thoughts on using lets encrypt for plex on synology.