I broke my Emby, can't start

[nerder 0]

Originally I had my emby set to the default 8096 and 8920 for http/https and had a wildcart cert with required SSL turned on. I was making modifications and set the ports to 80 and 443, and remembered internally I'm using a reverse proxy, so I set the last part to going through reverse proxy. But here's the thing, after the server restarted it won't start fully! It loads up, then stops with code=exited

 

I can't get back into it to change the port settings back

[mastrmind11 717]

i think there's an xml file in the install dir that you can manually edit.

[Luke 37250]

Hi, if you can locate the server config file, system.xml, under the server's data folder, then you can edit the ports manually.

 

I'm surprised you can't fully start because usually we handle this and then revert back to the default ports. can you attach the server log? Thanks.

[Jdiesel 1114]

What distro are you using?

 

You can manually edit the System.xml to change the ports back. On Ubuntu this file is located at /var/lib/emby/config

 

My guess is that you OS is unable to bind to ports 80 and 443 without Emby being run with root privileges (non-root users can only bind to ports above 1024) and is causing the service to not start.

[nerder 0]

I actually did end up finding it shortly after the post but I had to step away for a while before I could respond here. Thank you for the help however!