Install CentOS 7
Enable the network adapter
vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-
Change “ONBOOT” to yes
systemctl restart network
I would install net-tools then
yum install net-tools
Now do an update
yum update
yum upgrade
Create a folder in mnt for the network shares to mount to (this is only applicable if you are storing your movies/music/media on a network share using CIFS)
mkdir /mnt/shares
Now install cifs
yum install cifs-utils
Now create a credentials file and update your fstab file
vi /root/credentials.txt
add the following lines:
username:
password:
save the file
vi /etc/fstab
add the following lines to the end of the file
//files/sharename mountlocation cifs credentials=/root/credentials.txt,iocharset=utf8,sec-ntlm 0 0
Add as many of those lines and share folders as you need
I would install wget as that’s not included in CentOS – pretty sure you can do this via Yum but I forget how
yum install wget
Now go to the Plex Media Server download page and copy the url for the CentOS 7 server 64-bit file
cd ~
wget www.file.rpm
Now install plex
yum localinstall plexfile.rpm
Reboot the server
From within the same subnet/network, you’ll go to http://plexserver:32400/web and you can setup the basic config.