Jellyfin blocked on network

[Leo Strangman]

Currently I am using the internet provided by my university, which appears to block Jellyfin when accessed normally as if I was on my home network. If I go to the ip address at port 8096 in my browser on another device, it shows that there is a server there listed as "undefined" which cannot be interacted with. I can get around this by using Tailscale, which also allows me to access it remotely, but I would prefer it if I could avoid having to use Tailscale as it does not work on some of my devices.

I don't have tons of knowledge on networking related topics, so I apologize if anything is incorrect, but it seems as though my university has something set up that blocks this port in some way. It is the same with moonlight/sunshine, which also will not connect without Tailscale.  I've seen in settings that I can mess around with the ports and http/https, and I have also seen reverse proxies mentioned, but I don't know how exactly I would go about doing that in a way that works for my purposes, if it is possible at all.

Does anyone have any advice or ideas as to what could be done here?

[Deleted User]

go back to networking where you saw the setting but chose not to change it and change it

8096->8097, save, restart, test

perform any configuration you may have already done to allow 8096 through your network again with the new port you have selected

[TheDreadPirate]

Your university is probably preventing any kind of HTTP requests for internal-to-internal IPs on their student/client subnet. Setting up a reverse proxy probably will not get around that. In their mind, if you are on their network you are either accessing University hosted resources or the Internet. You will need to continue to use tailscale for remote access.