Calibre-Server: no pages found (404) in OSX

[cdaller]

Hi!

I have difficulties getting the calibre-server to run: nearly all requests return a "404 Not Found" error.

My configuration is the following (standard config - no changes):
server port: 8080
username: calibre
password: (not set)
...
url prefix: calibre

when I browse to http://localhost:8080/ I get a calibre page that has no images, no css and every link on it results in "404 Not Found". In fact, every link that goes to http://localhost:8080/calibre/... results in "404 Not Found".
The "404 Not Found" page is created by "Powered by CherryPy 3.2.2", so I am talking to the calibre server, but it does not serves content-pages to me.

It does not make a difference
* if I use localhost/127.0.0.1/my ip address
* if I use my calibre library (around 400 books in it), an empty or a library with one book in it.
* if I browse with Safari, Chrome or firefox
* if I browse from the same computer or from another connected device (ipad)
* if I start from command line (calibre-server) or from GUI
* if I use port 8080 or 8765

I am some kind of clueless. Some weeks ago, the server was happily running, but right now I cannot find a clue what is going wrong.

My debug output:
Darwin-12.3.0-x86_64-i386-64bit Darwin ('64bit', '')
('Darwin', '12.3.0', 'Darwin Kernel Version 12.3.0: Sun Jan 6 22:37:10 PST 2013; root:xnu-2050.22.13~1/RELEASE_X86_64')
Python 2.7.3
OSX: ('10.8.3', ('', '', ''), 'x86_64')

My calibre version is 0.9.24 and this behavior also showed in 0.9.22 and 0.9.23. not sure what was the last version that worked (not even sure that it is due to an update).

Here is a screenshot of what I get in the browser:


The server log does not show anything interesting:
[27/Mar/2013:00:01:36] ENGINE Bus STARTING
[27/Mar/2013:00:01:36] ENGINE Started monitor thread '_TimeoutMonitor'.
[27/Mar/2013:00:01:37] ENGINE Serving on 0.0.0.0:8080
[27/Mar/2013:00:01:38] ENGINE Bus STARTED

The access log neither:
127.0.0.1 - - [27/Mar/2013:00:12:11] "GET /calibre/browse/icon/tags.png HTTP/1.1" 404 742 "http://localhost:8080/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_3) AppleWebKit/537.22 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/25.0.1364.172 Safari/537.22"
127.0.0.1 - - [27/Mar/2013:00:12:11] "GET /calibre/browse/icon/rating.png HTTP/1.1" 404 744 "http://localhost:8080/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_3) AppleWebKit/537.22 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/25.0.1364.172 Safari/537.22"
127.0.0.1 - - [27/Mar/2013:00:12:11] "GET /calibre/browse/icon/search.png HTTP/1.1" 404 744 "http://localhost:8080/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_3) AppleWebKit/537.22 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/25.0.1364.172 Safari/537.22"

Help would be appreciated!
christof

[theducks]

127.0.0.1 will only work on the machine calibre is installed on, hence the name LOCALhost

For other systems to access you will need to know the LAN IP (ie 192.168.0.11)

That interface could be the Mobile version, but 404 is not expected.

[chaley]

My guess is that calibre-server is not seeing your library but is instead seeing a default empty one. If so, then you need to use the --with-library argument to point calibre-server to the correct folder.

[cdaller]

Thanks for your answers, but unfortunately the problem still is the same:

* I started the server with "calibre-server --with-library=Calibre\ Library" (from my home directory) - same result
* same result with localhost/127.0.0.1/<hostname>/<other ip address>

Strange thing is, that with http://xxx:8080/calibre always a 404 is returned while with http://xxx:8080 I get the page like the screenshot in my other posting. Should there be a web-interface on http://xxx:8080 at all? Or only on http://xxx:8080/calibre ?

Can I give you more information (log file, directory content, ...) so anybody is able to help?

regards
christof

[cdaller]

Hi!

thanks for your answers, but unfortunately none of the suggestions worked:
* no difference if using my ip, my internal hostname, localhost or 127.0.0.1
* no difference when starting the server with a specific library "calibre-server --with-library=Calibre\ Library " from my home directory (and "Calibre Library" contains all my ebooks)

Should there be a web-interface on http://xxx:8080 or should there be only one at http://xxx:8080/calibre?

Can I add some information to help find the the problem?

regards
christof

[theducks]

You may have 2 things going on:

The image you see is similar to When I set Firefox to View:Page Style: No Style. Change the setting (while viewing) to Basic Page Style


BTW as you can see: the URL in the address bar works, you may have some other settings in your browser blocking things. Try disabling some of the Browser plugins

[kovidgoyal]

Those URLs look like they have a prefix. If you've removed the prefix setting the you need to use bare urls http://localhost:8000/ *not* http://localhost:8000/calibre

[cdaller]

Hi!

thanks for your help. I tried to start the calibre server on my other mac today and it worked! Then I copied all settings, restarted calibre and now it works on my laptop as well! The prefix was the thing that broke the server!

I can reproduce it: set a prefix "calibre" and browse to http://localhost:8080/ gives the result described in my first posting. http://localhost:8080/calibre only returns a 404.

My problem probably was, that I changed the settings and restarted the server but did not save the settings before restarting.

Anyway, it seems that the prefix-feature is broken. Not a big issue for me - I am happy to use the server without prefix as well!

Thanks for all your support - as a software developer myself, I really appreciate that!
christof