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very beginner help with initial setup - captkp - 2023-12-15
Please excuse my ignorance, I'm very new to all of this. I recently tested out setting up jellyfin on an old laptop running ubuntu and it worked great! I got through the installation process no problem, set up the server in browser, and it was wonderful. The issue was, I didn't have much storage on that laptop.
I've now gotten a new laptop with ample storage (still running ubuntu), and want to set up jellyfin again. I installed it successfully using command line, but when I try to access the server in a browser (the command told me to go to "http://:8096"), I'm only able to use the search function of the address bar, it won't take me to the server setup page like the first time I installed it. The only difference I can see, is that the server link in my old laptop included the laptop's name after http://, but this one does not. I tried filling in the new laptop's name, but it comes back as server not found. Any help is greatly appreciated, I feel like I'm missing something totally obvious.
RE: very beginner help with initial setup - TheDreadPirate - 2023-12-15
Use http://localhost:8096 if you are accessing it from the laptop running it. Otherwise use http://192.168.1.X:8096 (replace X with whatever your laptop's IP address is).