My /opt/universalmediaserver/web was empty. So if you don't use the web interface, what client(s) are you using, and how do they access the server content?. the server side of the setup seemed very intuitive to me, but my understanding was that the browser instance on port 9001 was the client portion, and this is how the media would be accessed by different renderers, etc. Thanks for the detailed reply! Your response got me scratching my head even more however. I recommend you check the log file to see what's going on, and it might tell why it's broken. I copied in the WEB.conf file from the above opt folder to my user config folder as well afterwards, and it still works. It's pulling files from /opt/universalmediaserver/web for the content. I went and enabled the web interface just for grins and giggles, I got the page loaded with default settings at 9001 on the stock install.

I didn't setup any of the hard coded paths for the transcoding, it finds them just fine on its own as long as the user you're running it as has it available in their PATH. The big take away is the setup of the shared folder in there, I just manually did the config by hand, which is pretty easy.

Just reading this, I realized I haven't actually ever used the web interface, so I'm not certain what's broken there. I'm going to try to emerge an earlier version, and re-emerge all dependent packages, in particular the ones mentioned in this thread. I tried https for shits and giggles, and it just times out. the interface is accessible over http on port 9001. This is one of the reasons I tried the windows installer, to confirm a few things. When you tried to access it through the browser, did you use http or https? Servers that multiplex both on a single port are rare, so if you pick the wrong one relative to what it offers, you'll get strange errors. It worked as expected, so there must be an issue with my gentoo setup. Is there something obvious I'm missing here?ĮDIT: To become more familiar with the software, I fired up a VM and test drove the windows version. In terms of Java I'm running Oracle JDK 1.8.0.112. I can telnet to port 9001 when the service is running so something is listening there, but nothing comes up in the browser. Enabling everything in the logger doesn't seem to shed any light on things. I've tried changing a number of settings incl toggling the httpv2 engine, running as root in headless mode, and so on. but I can't bring up the default web interface at 9001. I can bring up the interface, detect renderers, and access the admin interface on port :5001/console/home. Thanks for the ebuild and all of the other efforts- I was able to emerge version 6.7.3 and get it up and running. With the recent news about Plex changing their TOS, I've been looking at alternatives. Gentoo Forums :: View topic - Universal Media Server

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