Server address on Jellyfin app

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The Jellyfin app is asking for Server Adress to log in. Is this my IP? The address when the Jellyfin client is open in browser? Nothing I enter is working. I'm using MacOS and iOS for the app if that's relevant.ks

Thanks

[enesha]

Afternoon

     So the quick answer is yes, that would be the address of your server.  The more complicated answer requires a bit more digging.  You don't say how, precisely, you are connecting.  I'm assuming your server and the web browser you are using are both on your local network and you are connecting with an ip like 192.168.x.x or 10.10.x.x (which are private - non routable addresses)  If so, that would definitely be keeping things in your local, home, network.

Now the mobile client is where it gets tricky.  If your phone/tablet is connected to the wifi that everything else is on, then you can use that same address as your server location.

If, however, you are trying to use your ios device (iPhone?) on the carrier network so you can use JF outside of the home, then you may need to configure more.  Essentially you need to expose the ports from your server through your ISP Router/Modem/Firewall.  This has security implications tho, and you would definitely want to secure the ports, perhaps reverse proxy, etc.  Then after you open the JF ports to the world, you would need to change the server address to the IP that your ISP gives you, which is a public IP.

Again this would require configuration of your server/router/modem/gateway, perhaps reverse proxy, SSL Certificate at the least.  Perhaps a free dynamic domain name so you can put that in, instead of an IP.  It's not hard to do, but definitely outside the scope of the question you asked.  Check around in the docs, there is plenty of information available on how to accomplish these tasks.  Of course feel free to ask for more help as you go along