Wrapping Calibre in SSL, Issue.

[Fmstrat]

Hi,

I'm trying to use rewrite rules to wrap Calibre in SSL so that I can open it up to access when I'm on the road. However, I'm receiving some errors. Using the latest version of Calibre, and I've tried this using Apache and this guide: http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/server.html, and I've tried it using IIS, both with the same results. The page loads fine, but when I go to view newest books or browse books, I get:

Error: error

Object.createException (https://server/calibre/static/stacktrace.js:81:18)

Object.run (https://server/calibre/static/stacktrace.js:66:25)

printStackTrace (https://server/calibre/static/stacktrace.js:57:62)

render_error (https://server/calibre/static/browse/browse.js:134:18)

error()@https://server/calibre/static/browse/browse.js:246:43

Function.handleError (https://server/calibre/static/jquery.js:5304:12)

XMLHttpRequest. (https://server/calibre/static/jquery.js:5210:13)

I also get the errors when using the rewrite without SSL. My guess is the source is trying to grab a page with the XMLHttpRequest, but it's not being parsed properly because of the rewrite rule.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,
Ben

[Fmstrat]

Of course I would spend forever on this and then figure it out right after I post. Calibre's Javascript calls use root urls, such as "/browse", and while the Rewrite rules can modify those in the HTML code, they can't modify the JS variables.

Therefore, for anyone trying this, you can't set up an "https://site.com/calibre" wrapper to "http://localhost:7070". It can only be "https://calibre.site.com/". Since Kindles require a validated cert, you would have to get a separate cert specific to that hostname.

I'm going to guess there's no chance of getting a setting added into the interface to specify a directory to run calibre in? Such as setting it to "foldername" would make calibre host in "http://localhost:7070/foldername".

Thanks!
Ben

[ilovejedd]

Originally Posted by Fmstrat

I'm going to guess there's no chance of getting a setting added into the interface to specify a directory to run calibre in? Such as setting it to "foldername" would make calibre host in "http://localhost:7070/foldername".

Already exists. No idea how to get to it via GUI but if you launch calibre-server from command-line you can do this:

(assuming https://site.com/calibre)

calibre-server --url-prefix /calibre

You can also set other options (e.g. username, password, port number, etc) via command line.

On my Apache install, I didn't need to bother with mod_rewrite. I just added the following to my httpd.conf:

<Location "/calibre" >
    ProxyPass http://localhost:8080/calibre
    ProxyPassReverse http://localhost:8080/calibre
    SetEnv force-proxy-request-1.0 1
    SetEnv proxy-nokeepalive 1
</Location>

[Fmstrat]

Originally Posted by ilovejedd

Already exists. No idea how to get to it via GUI but if you launch calibre-server from command-line you can do this:

(assuming https://site.com/calibre)

calibre-server --url-prefix /calibre

You can also set other options (e.g. username, password, port number, etc) via command line.

On my Apache install, I didn't need to bother with mod_rewrite. I just added the following to my httpd.conf:

<Location "/calibre" >
    ProxyPass http://localhost:8080/calibre
    ProxyPassReverse http://localhost:8080/calibre
    SetEnv force-proxy-request-1.0 1
    SetEnv proxy-nokeepalive 1
</Location>

Good to know! I ended up setting up a separate site on a different port, that way I could use the root domain with SSL.

Thanks,
Ben