PHP+Apache web server for calibre ... - Page 11

chaley · 11-20-2011, 07:03 AM

Thanks. Both sets of changes will be in the next release.

edent · 11-21-2011, 10:52 AM

Oh, two other things.
The meta language declaration is deprecated.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-html-ma...-language.html

Should just use

Code:

<html lang="en">

There's an exta /span on

Code:

<span style="font-size:large">{{$page_title}}<br></span><span style="font-size:medium">{{$title}}</span></span>

chaley · 11-22-2011, 05:18 AM

Changes made ...

ruaware · 11-22-2011, 10:25 AM

I can not get this to work

I have binded the directory to 8060 port so they will goto webaddress and not need a directory. but have also tried adding the folder to an existing settings.

Download latest smarty and placed in /SmartyRelease/libs

I have edit config.local as follows and i just get a blank page. please help
$config['library_dir'] = 'C:\\Users\\jamie\\Calibre Library';
$config['web_dir'] = '/';
$config['smarty_web_dir'] = $config['web_dir'] . '/smarty';
$config['smarty_dir'] = 'C:\Moodle\smartyTemp';
$config['smarty'] = '/SmartyRelease/libs';

edit: forgot to say i have IIS 7.5 and PHP 5.??

chaley · 11-22-2011, 11:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ruaware

I can not get this to work

I have binded the directory to 8060 port so they will goto webaddress and not need a directory. but have also tried adding the folder to an existing settings.

Download latest smarty and placed in /SmartyRelease/libs

I have edit config.local as follows and i just get a blank page. please help
$config['library_dir'] = 'C:\\Users\\jamie\\Calibre Library';
$config['web_dir'] = '/';
$config['smarty_web_dir'] = $config['web_dir'] . '/smarty';
$config['smarty_dir'] = 'C:\Moodle\smartyTemp';
$config['smarty'] = '/SmartyRelease/libs';

edit: forgot to say i have IIS 7.5 and PHP 5.??

Sorry, but I know nothing about IIS, so I can't give much help. That said, there are some things to look at.

You say the "latest smarty". The server runs with smarty 2.6. I have no idea if it runs with smarty 3.
The server has been tested with PHP 5.2 and PHP 5.3. You should verify that you have one of those.
Be sure to run PHP as a module and not in CGI mode (assuming IIS can make that distinction).
Given that you are using IIS, you might want to change all the '/' characters to '\\'.
the values for config web_dir, smarty_dir, and smarty must be real file paths, probably including a drive letter as you are running on IIS. They are specifically *not* URL paths.
I don't know what "binded the directory to port 8060" means, so I can't say if doing so overrides any of the above comments.

nobo · 11-29-2011, 09:02 AM

Hey there,

thank you very much for the lightweight script.
I was figgling around to get it to work yesterday - ending up installing the calibre content server, to just find out it is too much of a resource hog to have it running all the time, for simply just idling around.

The problem was, that I could not download any files. Figured out, that it actually did not properly look for the file extensions - patched the version 2.7 to now run smoothly for me.

Additionally I changed the behavior for serving images to write the thumbnails to a cache and serve them directly to the client. (Does speed up load times for me)

If you are interrested in patches , please let me know.

Another question: Do you think it easily possible to create an opds catalog in the php script aswell? Would really enhance the experience (maybe for stanza?)

itimpi · 11-29-2011, 09:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nobo

Another question: Do you think it easily possible to create an opds catalog in the php script aswell? Would really enhance the experience (maybe for stanza?)

If you mean a static OPDS catalog that can be stored on a web server, then you can use the Calibre2Opds product to do this.

chaley · 11-29-2011, 09:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nobo

The problem was, that I could not download any files. Figured out, that it actually did not properly look for the file extensions - patched the version 2.7 to now run smoothly for me.

Additionally I changed the behavior for serving images to write the thumbnails to a cache and serve them directly to the client. (Does speed up load times for me)

If you are interrested in patches , please let me know.

Sure, I will look at patches.

I and others don't have problems downloading books, so I don't know what you mean when you say 'did not properly look at extensions'. I suppose that the patch will tell me.

As for caching thumbnails, I did it and than yanked it out. I found that invalidating the cache (checking mod times on the thumbnail against the cache) cost almost as much as serving the image directly (at least on my servers), and the cache increased both complexity and memory usage. However, it seems to work for you, which is good.

Quote:

Another question: Do you think it easily possible to create an opds catalog in the php script aswell? Would really enhance the experience (maybe for stanza?)

It is certainly possible, but I have no need for it and therefore no interest in doing the work. As itimpi says, you can get most of the benefit of OPDS with calibre2opds. Running it at some frequency would keep the catalog mostly up-to-date.

ilovejedd · 11-29-2011, 12:10 PM

Curious, does the PHP script have search functionality? For me, that's probably the biggest draw of the native calibre content server.

chaley · 11-29-2011, 12:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ilovejedd

Curious, does the PHP script have search functionality? For me, that's probably the biggest draw of the native calibre content server.

Yes it does. You can try it at the demo site: http://charles.the-haleys.org/calibre/demo.

However, the native server also has search. The search box is at the right near the top (see the attachment), and supports (I think) all of calibre's search expressions. Are you looking for something else?

ilovejedd · 11-29-2011, 01:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chaley

Yes it does. You can try it at the demo site: http://charles.the-haleys.org/calibre/demo.

However, the native server also has search. The search box is at the right near the top (see the attachment), and supports (I think) all of calibre's search expressions. Are you looking for something else?

Cool. I know the native server has search. That's one of the reasons I use it instead of calibre2opds. I reckon adding templates for an OPDS feed shouldn't be so difficult so I can do that myself.

nobo · 11-29-2011, 06:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chaley

Sure, I will look at patches.

I and others don't have problems downloading books, so I don't know what you mean when you say 'did not properly look at extensions'. I suppose that the patch will tell me.

Will prepare it, testing a bit more these days. I am using lighttpd and had to use mod_rewrite in order to translate the links back to query strings.

The String $fmt usually has the whole file name in my request (i.e. somebookname.epub). Instead of using epub as the format, the script used the whole bookname including extension to query the database and did not find the required file (hence whitespaces etc have been replaced with '_')

That's the issue I had on my server. I was testing your Demo and it works without problems over there

Quote:

Originally Posted by chaley

As for caching thumbnails, I did it and than yanked it out. I found that invalidating the cache (checking mod times on the thumbnail against the cache) cost almost as much as serving the image directly (at least on my servers), and the cache increased both complexity and memory usage. However, it seems to work for you, which is good.

It is rather a simple hack to save the image file directly to a directory in the webdirectory of the server. Right now I do not care about changed thumbnails, but adding some change-detection logic does add up to the difficulties that will be experienced.

I am running the script on a plugcomputer with a lowvoltage arm cpu. It does ages to convert the images. Even though there are about 8 php-cgi proccesses spawned, handling all the image requests is a lot for the small server. So by just serving the already converted images through the http server, it does enhance the speed and usability a lot. ;-)

Quote:

Originally Posted by chaley

It is certainly possible, but I have no need for it and therefore no interest in doing the work. As itimpi says, you can get most of the benefit of OPDS with calibre2opds. Running it at some frequency would keep the catalog mostly up-to-date.

I know that there is calibre2opds, yet I am not a fan on running very intense scripts every X hours on that small box. And it adds another problem, I would need to server the books library directly over the http server instead of keeping it somewhere else on my server.
And last but not least, I would loose the search capabilities that your script / calibre does provide.

I am not too familiar with smarty (yet), but if there are some more people that would contribute, we can try to enhance your script to even server a valid opds catalog and thus provide an even more convenient alternative to the resource intensive calibre-server. (There might be a couple of more people out there running a NAS box with an arm cpu that would actually love to use this? )

ilovejedd · 11-30-2011, 12:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nobo

I am not too familiar with smarty (yet), but if there are some more people that would contribute, we can try to enhance your script to even server a valid opds catalog and thus provide an even more convenient alternative to the resource intensive calibre-server. (There might be a couple of more people out there running a NAS box with an arm cpu that would actually love to use this? )

I did a quick perusal of the scripts earlier. Really, pretty much the only thing that needs to be changed are the smarty templates. Perhaps the index.php file, too, although from my initial review, it doesn't appear as if that's needed.

ogarcia · 12-01-2011, 04:48 AM

Hello.

I'm using calibre php server and i see some bugs in error log:

Code:

PHP Notice:  Undefined index: page in /tmp/smarty_templates_c/2a71e5f90020f71cbe2b81a3ee8a7666420dac97.file.header.tpl.php on line 79
PHP Notice:  Trying to get property of non-object in /tmp/smarty_templates_c/2a71e5f90020f71cbe2b81a3ee8a7666420dac97.file.header.tpl.php on line 79
PHP Notice:  Undefined index: use_back in /tmp/smarty_templates_c/2a71e5f90020f71cbe2b81a3ee8a7666420dac97.file.header.tpl.php on line 130
PHP Notice:  Trying to get property of non-object in /tmp/smarty_templates_c/2a71e5f90020f71cbe2b81a3ee8a7666420dac97.file.header.tpl.php on line 130
PHP Notice:  Undefined index: up_url in /tmp/smarty_templates_c/2a71e5f90020f71cbe2b81a3ee8a7666420dac97.file.header.tpl.php on line 132
PHP Notice:  Trying to get property of non-object in /tmp/smarty_templates_c/2a71e5f90020f71cbe2b81a3ee8a7666420dac97.file.header.tpl.php on line 132" while reading response header from upstream, client: 91.116.141.14, server: my.host, request: "POST /index.php HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://127.0.0.1:9000", host: "my.host", referrer: "http://my.host/

I think that this is some parts of template that is not defined in books metas. This can not be treated with "if" sentences?

Greetings!

More info: The smarty-libs are the latest version: 3.1.5

chaley · 12-01-2011, 05:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ogarcia

Hello.

I'm using calibre php server and i see some bugs in error log:
[...]
I think that this is some parts of template that is not defined in books metas. This can not be treated with "if" sentences?

Greetings!

More info: The smarty-libs are the latest version: 3.1.5

I have no idea if smarty V3 works properly with this server. Given the problems you are having, it doesn't. Also, it appears that you are using fastcgi instead of loaded modules, another thing that I haven't tested. Finally, there is not one smarty error in 30 days of apache error logs on my server.

If I were you, I would start with downgrading smarty to V2 and see if the errors go away. I would also switch to loaded modules, unless there is some overriding reason you want to use fastcgi.

11-21-2011, 10:52 AM	#152
edent Enthusiast Posts: 48 Karma: 12654 Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: UK Device: Likebook Ares, Kindle 3G, Nook STR, 511eb	Oh, two other things. The meta language declaration is deprecated. http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-html-ma...-language.html Should just use Code: <html lang="en"> There's an exta /span on Code: <span style="font-size:large">{{$page_title}}<br></span><span style="font-size:medium">{{$title}}</span></span> Last edited by edent; 11-21-2011 at 10:59 AM.

11-22-2011, 10:25 AM	#154
ruaware Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2011 Device: Kindle	I can not get this to work I have binded the directory to 8060 port so they will goto webaddress and not need a directory. but have also tried adding the folder to an existing settings. Download latest smarty and placed in /SmartyRelease/libs I have edit config.local as follows and i just get a blank page. please help $config['library_dir'] = 'C:\\Users\\jamie\\Calibre Library'; $config['web_dir'] = '/'; $config['smarty_web_dir'] = $config['web_dir'] . '/smarty'; $config['smarty_dir'] = 'C:\Moodle\smartyTemp'; $config['smarty'] = '/SmartyRelease/libs'; edit: forgot to say i have IIS 7.5 and PHP 5.?? Last edited by ruaware; 11-22-2011 at 10:31 AM.

11-29-2011, 09:02 AM	#156
nobo Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2011 Device: kindle 2011	Had some Issues with filetype Hey there, thank you very much for the lightweight script. I was figgling around to get it to work yesterday - ending up installing the calibre content server, to just find out it is too much of a resource hog to have it running all the time, for simply just idling around. The problem was, that I could not download any files. Figured out, that it actually did not properly look for the file extensions - patched the version 2.7 to now run smoothly for me. Additionally I changed the behavior for serving images to write the thumbnails to a cache and serve them directly to the client. (Does speed up load times for me) If you are interrested in patches , please let me know. Another question: Do you think it easily possible to create an opds catalog in the php script aswell? Would really enhance the experience (maybe for stanza?)

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11-20-2011, 07:03 AM	#151
chaley Grand Sorcerer Posts: 11,733 Karma: 6690881 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Notts, England Device: Kobo Libra 2	Thanks. Both sets of changes will be in the next release.

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ilovejedd hopeless n00b Posts: 5,111 Karma: 19597086 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: in the middle of nowhere Device: PW4, PW3, Libra H2O, iPad 10.5, iPad 11, iPad 12.9	Curious, does the PHP script have search functionality? For me, that's probably the biggest draw of the native calibre content server.