Plex URL is invalid

[Eddi101]

{from config.yml}

plex:
url: https://10.10.10.10:32400
token: reVb#############
clean_bundles: false
empty_trash: false
optimize: false
timeout: 60

[muff7]

Had this issue myself on my Unraid setup.

I changed the url to localhost:32400 and the script runs now.

[meisnate12]

i dont know your setup but your pmm cannot ping that url to reach plex you can try muffs suggestion but it has to do with your network configuration

[gitttt54]

Can we elaborate ?

What network configuration might be the problem?

Unraid itself, or the Docker container's or the Plex remote settings? or all?

I have tried the following:

updating docker containter:

Network Type: Host or Bridge (default was bridge as seen in here).

Privileged: on/off (off by default)

and also in config.yml
url: https://192.168.178.103:32400 (my unraid host ip, up and running. With plex docker from plex-inc in https mode)
or
url: https://localhost:32400 (did not work)
or just
url: localhost:32400 (gave another error: | Plex Error: No connection adapters were found for 'localhost:32400/' |)

All above combinations throw the same error: | Plex Error: Plex url is invalid |

Unfortunately, I can not ping inside the docker console, to check if the host is reachable.
There seems to be no ping installed. Dunno, if this is an unraid or docker issue.

I have no idea atm, what else I can try or which logs I should read. Nor, what else I can hand over to you guys.

I run the docker container via -r in Post Arguments
config.yml
meta.log

[alexricher]

Hi gitttt54,

I also had the same issue on Unraid installing this docker. My plex is not on the same IP of my Unraid host, so the "use localhost:32400" trick wouldn't work for me either.

I tried pinging my Plex server from the console of the docker directly, and it wouldn't work. Solution for me was to set my network type as "br0" so it has its own IP address assigned to it. I could then access the Plex url successfully.

Hopefully, that solves your issue as well.

Good luck and have a great day!

Alex

[gitttt54]

Thanks,
questions:

I guess "br0" is bridge? I only have eth0, eth2 shown as nics.
See here:

So on what docker container did you switch your network type to bridge mode? plex-docker or plex-meta-manager? or both?

Thank you very much for your help!

[alexricher]

Hi,

Yeah, br0 is my network card in my case, but from the look of your drop-down list, I'm guessing you might have 2 network cards in your system. In this case, take the one that is connected to your LAN (local network, i.e. most likely eth0 or eth2). You don't need to provide a specific ip underneath unless you want a static ip.

Try that and see if this works. 👍😊

Alex

Edit : forgot to answer your other question. My plex is also in "custom: br0" with a static ip (ex: 192.168.1.199). I bet I wouldn't have this problem if my plex setup was in bridge mode and we could use the localhost solution provided above in the thread.

[gitttt54]

Ok, thanks for clarifying!

unfortunately, no change, when I use the above suggested settings now.

My Unraid IP is 192.168.178.103 via https
My Plex Docker IP is 192.168.178.241 via https
I start the Script from the Plex-Meta-Manager Console: python plex_meta_manager.py -r
I also restart the Plex-Meta-Manager Docker container after a change in the config.yml.

My Configs:

config.yml

or another test config.yml

plex docker:

plex-meta-manager docker:

output log:

Also, my Unraid Network Config:

I can not see, why the error PLEX URL INVALID is coming.

Unfortunately, I can not test with a ping, because in the plex-meta-manager docker is no ping executable found.

Maybe there is something like a "debug" modus?

[izeen]

i have the same issue but i think a key piece of information is missing from the above that can be found through the logs. By default plex does not allow insecure connections (HTTP) and since we are connecting on the local IP and through HTTPS there will be a certificate error which can be spotted in the logs:

File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/ssl.py", line 420, in match_hostname | raise CertificateError("hostname %r " | ssl.SSLCertVerificationError: ("hostname '192.168.XXX.XXX' doesn't match '*.XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.plex.direct'",)

i've seen from other utilities in the past where you could skip SSL verification by adding it to the configuration (ombi used to have it and way back tautulli but they have both changed their method of auth against plex), is there an equivalent setting here or am i out on deep water and should configure it differently? Thanks!

[izeen]

Great!
Looks good to me!

Thanks again 👍

[meisnate12]

ok now youll have to have verify_ssl: true under your global settings set that to false to disable the verification

[gitttt54]

ok now youll have to have verify_ssl: true under your global settings set that to false to disable the verification

Nice! I will add that line to my config.yml and test it, when a new stable version is updated by the docker image.

[izeen]

Just pulled the latest stable docker container and added the verify_ssl: false to the conf, works perfectly! Thanks again!

[gitttt54]

Just pulled the latest stable docker container and added the verify_ssl: false to the conf, works perfectly! Thanks again!

Same here. Now it works! Thank you for the magic!!!

[rotj]

I had the same error on Docker for Windows.

Instead of localhost or the ip, I tried host.docker.internal and it worked.

url: http://host.docker.internal:32400

[Persnickety-Econ]

yes, thanks for this. worked perfectly and I didn't have to change the "verify_ssl:" value nor did I have to change my Plex/Setting/Network/Secure Connections settings.

[that1itguy]

I'm still new to this and learning. When you say url: http://host.docker.internal:32400

Would that mean something like url: http://192.168.3.20.docker.192.168.3.110:32400 or is my syntax wrong?

Would the 'host' be my dockers IP address and internal being plex IP address?

[chazlarson]

No, enter exactly that:

plex:
  url: http://host.docker.internal:32400/
  token: WHATEVERWHATEVER

host.docker.internal tells docker to connect to the host machine's IP, whatever it is.

[that1itguy]

I am using Docker in Synology and my plex is on another server.
My dockers IP is 192.168.3.20 while Plex is hosted at 192.168.3.110.

I did try using http://192.168.3.110:32400 as the URL but says it's unable to connect as I'm assuming dockers internal IP can't ping 192.168.3.110?

[chazlarson]

Oh, then sure, this doesn't apply.

You need to [at a minimum] put the PMM docker on the host network so it can see other machines on the LAN.

[plexamby]

I had the same problem and the problem was resolved by changing Plex/Setting/Network/Secure Connections to Preferred

[SebboGit]

This is the only thing that works for me. I can ping my plex server within the plex-meta-manager container, I've tried all of the IP addresses mentioned above, I've set verify_ssl to false but nothing has work until I've changed Secure connections to "Preferred".

[NMGMarques]

Winner! Winner! Chicken dinner! Had to be the very last solution, huh? Thanks. Was going nuts!