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[kovidgoyal]

I know that demon as in the little red guy with a pitchfork used to be spelt (and sometimes still is) as daemon, but I've never come across daemon being spelt as demon.

[pilotbob]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

I know that demon as in the little red guy with a pitchfork used to be spelt (and sometimes still is) as daemon, but I've never come across daemon being spelt as demon.

Yep... that's what a demon is:

1. an evil spirit; devil or fiend. 2. an evil passion or influence. 3. a person considered extremely wicked, evil, or cruel.
But, also from the Wikipedia entry on daemon:

Pronunciation

The word daemon is an alternate spelling of demon, and taken out of its computer science context, it is pronounced /ˈdiːmən/ DEE-mən.[3][4][5] Perhaps due to the relative obscurity of this spelling elsewhere, the computer term daemon is commonly pronounced /ˈdeɪmən/ DAY-mən.

Either way I think we both know what is being referred to here. And thank you for your answer.


BOb

[Cold]

Originally Posted by CrazyIvan

I believe he's just using Apache's reverse proxy features

Yep, exactly - very useful indeed.

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Would it help if gui.js used relative paths instead of absolute ones?

It would :)

I'm serving from http://domain.com/some/path/, /static is therefore http://domain.com/some/path/static/ (Which the reverse proxy rewrite takes care of), /library is at http://domain.com/some/path/library and /get is http://domain.com/some/path/get

Those last two, being called by gui.js, can't be rewritten by mod_proxy_html as it doesn't parse .js files

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

EDIT: I've changed gui.js to use the hostname+absolute path

It's honouring the path that's the issue, so an absolute path will be no good without additional JS jiggery-pokery.

Thanks for looking at this, it's appreciated.

[kovidgoyal]

OK I've changed gui.js to use relative paths.

[Cold]

Thank you

[Raduz]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

How have you installed calibre? via the binary installer or easy_install?

Easy_install.

[kovidgoyal]

What does

locate wsgiserver

give you?

[Raduz]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

What does

locate wsgiserver

give you?

/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/zope/server/http/tests/test_wsgiserver.py
/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/zope/server/http/tests/test_wsgiserver.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/calibre-0.4.102-py2.5-linux-i686.egg/cherrypy/wsgiserver
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/calibre-0.4.102-py2.5-linux-i686.egg/cherrypy/wsgiserver/__init__.pyc

[kovidgoyal]

I'm at a loss, the only explanation I can come with for the error message you're getting is a conflicting cherrypy install

[Raduz]

Originally Posted by Raduz

/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/zope/server/http/tests/test_wsgiserver.py
/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/zope/server/http/tests/test_wsgiserver.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/calibre-0.4.102-py2.5-linux-i686.egg/cherrypy/wsgiserver
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/calibre-0.4.102-py2.5-linux-i686.egg/cherrypy/wsgiserver/__init__.pyc

And before you ask, "updatedb" added this, of course:

/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/calibre-0.4.103-py2.5-linux-i686.egg/cherrypy/wsgiserver
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/calibre-0.4.103-py2.5-linux-i686.egg/cherrypy/wsgiserver/__init__.pyc

[Raduz]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

I'm at a loss, the only explanation I can come with for the error message you're getting is a conflicting cherrypy install

I have tried running content server on different machine, different install (still Debian testing, of course), and got same error. Strange. When run on OpenSUSE 11 in a virtual machine, it has started without a problem (using both binary and from source install). I will try binary and from source install on Debian, and let you know if it made any difference.

BTW, isn't it strange that the error message contains "cStringIO.StringO" instead of "cStringIO.StringIO"? I have just checked, it's really there, not an error during the copy&paste.

[kovidgoyal]

cStringIO has StringO and StringI classes instead of a single StringIO class

[Cold]

Hi Kovid,

The changes to gui.js now allow the Web UI to be served via a reverse proxy

Last tiny niggle, in gui.css there's still an absolute reference to /static/bg_search_box.png

Thanks again for the good work,

- Cold

[Raduz]

Originally Posted by Raduz

I will try binary and from source install on Debian, and let you know if it made any difference.

Well, binary install works, no error when accessing content server. Source install bombs on missing libunrar.so during the postinstall phase. I have compiled libunrar.so, and then it bombs on "OSError: /usr/lib/libunrar.so: undefined symbol: _ZN10RecVolumesC1Ev".

[kovidgoyal]

Originally Posted by Cold

Hi Kovid,

The changes to gui.js now allow the Web UI to be served via a reverse proxy

Last tiny niggle, in gui.css there's still an absolute reference to /static/bg_search_box.png

Thanks again for the good work,

- Cold

Fixed