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Complete Guide for Hosting Jellyfin on macOS - DigitalShane - 2025-03-30
When I started my journey hosting a media server I knew that I wanted to use a M1 mac mini for the performance. I found the resources online limited, so to help others I wrote a detailed guide on how I host Jellyfin on macOS. The setup includes robust restart handling and a monitoring dashboard.
I keep the guide continuously updated on Github.
Hope it helps someone! Let me know if there are questions.
RE: Complete Guide for Hosting Jellyfin on macOS - DigitalShane - 2025-04-12
Guide has been updated with IP Geo Filtering and Dynamic-DNS setup!
RE: Complete Guide for Hosting Jellyfin on macOS - Anthony325 - 2025-06-19
(2025-03-30, 05:10 PM)DigitalShane Wrote: When I started my journey hosting a media server I knew that I wanted to use a M1 mac mini for the performance. I found the resources online limited, so to help others I wrote a detailed guide on how I host Jellyfin on macOS. The setup includes robust restart handling and a monitoring dashboard.
I keep the guide continuously updated on Github.
Hope it helps someone! Let me know if there are questions.
Thanks for sharing! Such detailed and updated guide will definitely be helpful for many macOS users.
RE: Complete Guide for Hosting Jellyfin on macOS - DigitalShane - 2025-06-25
(2025-06-19, 06:26 AM)Anthony325 Wrote: Thanks for sharing! Such detailed and updated guide will definitely be helpful for many macOS users.
I appreciate the kind words! I check in every now and then for questions
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RE: Complete Guide for Hosting Jellyfin on macOS - DifferentComputers - 2025-06-30
What's the minimum Mac OS version that's compatible?
RE: Complete Guide for Hosting Jellyfin on macOS - gnattu - 2025-07-01
(2025-06-30, 07:20 PM)DifferentComputers Wrote: What's the minimum Mac OS version that's compatible?
macOS 12 Monterey at the time of writing.
RE: Complete Guide for Hosting Jellyfin on macOS - DifferentComputers - 2025-07-01
Thanks!
RE: Complete Guide for Hosting Jellyfin on macOS - Jeremy Goss - 2025-07-14
Hello. I believe I have much to learn! Thankful to have found your guide. I think I am already stuck near the beginning.
I am at the Reverse Proxy steps. This may sound silly, but I cannot seem to understand step 2x "Install xcaddy go install github.com/caddyserver/xcaddy/cmd/xcaddy@latest."
At first I thought I would be entering that in Terminal. But realized I should be downloading this from that site? But apparently I am just not understanding.
Apologies for a newbie question.
RE: Complete Guide for Hosting Jellyfin on macOS - DigitalShane - 2025-07-16
(2025-07-01, 05:47 PM)DifferentComputers Wrote: Thanks!
(2025-07-14, 12:54 PM)Jeremy Goss Wrote: Hello. I believe I have much to learn! Thankful to have found your guide. I think I am already stuck near the beginning.
I am at the Reverse Proxy steps. This may sound silly, but I cannot seem to understand step 2x "Install xcaddy go install github.com/caddyserver/xcaddy/cmd/xcaddy@latest."
At first I thought I would be entering that in Terminal. But realized I should be downloading this from that site? But apparently I am just not understanding.
Apologies for a newbie question.
Hey Jeremy! No problem at all! You need golang installed to run the xcaddy install command. You can install brew (https://brew.sh/), then install go with "brew install go". I'll make a note of that in the xcaddy install section of the guide in the next update. Let me know if you have any other questions.