This is a collection of helpful notes, and a suite of scripts written for my Mac mini M2 server, that help with server reliability, and notifications of errors. This server currently runs Plex, DEVONthink Server, Sonos, and Apple Music.
The scripts in this document have some sensitive information replaced with placeholders, for privacy. Otherwise they […]
As companies start to decide that sometimes it is better for them to remove access to media that you have “purchased” — I thought it would be good to share how I manage my media at home.
This is a living document that I plan to update with more details and better techniques, as I […]
This is more to remind myself of how to do it — it may not be 100% complete, or exactly fit your needs!
I’m going to assume that you have the Docker package installed, and a Docker container running on the Synology NAS, serving http content on a port that is not 80 or 443 […]
I’ve recently transitioned to using a PC for all of my media transcoding and hosting Plex, so I can keep my Macs unburdened and ready for real work. The only thing is — when Handbrake is compressing something, it pegs all of my CPU cores at 100%, leaving not much left for Plex Media Server […]
Note to self: After installing Python 3.6 on your Mac, run /Applications/Python 3.6/Install Certificates.command so your SLL connections don’t fail.
The error you might get, when this is the case, is:
ssl.SSLError: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:749)Python 3.6 no longer links to the macOS-supplied SSL libraries and now includes its own copy of OpenSSL, but it doesn’t automatically install the root certificates needed to validate connections. It seems the Python 3.6 installer warns you about this during the install, but it’s easy to miss. It’s also in the README, and there’s a behavior bug for Python suggesting that it get installed automatically. Thanks to this Stack Overflow post for the help.
Visualize this outcome:
This is on a network where I have no option of adding another public IP.
#1 is already up and running fine.
#2 is the hard part, mainly because I’m running macOS Server.app on #1, and the proxy setup does not seem to be the relatively straight-forward Apache one. Server has […]
I have had a hell of a time finding a way to install a Let’s Encrypt certificate on macOS Server the Right Way™, due to how Server customizes the Apache config in weird and annoying ways.
For the moment, I am going to use this way to “trick” certbot into issuing the cert to a […]
