COPS : Calibre OPDS PHP Server

[mariosipad]

Does your DDNS work? Does a PING <DDNS> show you your external IP-address (test). The PING-test is possible from within your LAN!

Have you forwarded port 8080 to <Internal-LAN-IP-address-of-your-Synology> in your router?

Any firewall installed in your Synology?

[chrisanthropic]

Yeah, I can ping the DDNS just fine and I forwarded port 8080 to my NASs internal IP.

No firewall in play currently (on the laptop, the NAS, or the server). I live dangerously :P.

I had another app using port 8080 originally but I changed it. I'm wondering if trying another port would get better results. Where can I configure the port that COPS uses? I scanned the files but didn't see anything.

[mariosipad]

My mistake!

If you like living on the sharp edge of life ... ....

Forward port 8080 to port 80 in your router, or just forward port 80 to port 80 of your Synology.

COPS runs on a webserver. Webservers usually use port 80.

Cops can be reached at http://DDNS/cops

[chrisanthropic]

Ah, crap, I didn't even think about that.

I'll try it when I get home and report back...thanks!

[chrisanthropic]

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[garax]

Originally Posted by vlad59

COPS 0.3.2 is out with some changes
...
Happy testing.

I just wanted to report that COPS 0.3.2 works with no problems (locally and remotely) on my Synology DS-211+, firmware 4.1, manual install.

Thanks and keep up the good work!

[vlad59]

@all

Thanks a lot for the report.

Synology package for 0.3.2 are on the way.

[garax]

Originally Posted by vlad59

@all

Thanks a lot for the report.

Synology package for 0.3.2 are on the way.

Is there any advantage of installing COPS via the Synology package rather than manual install?

[vlad59]

Originally Posted by garax

Is there any advantage of installing COPS via the Synology package rather than manual install?

Nope except it's easier to install if you don't know what you're doing

[garax]

Originally Posted by vlad59

Nope except it's easier to install if you don't know what you're doing

Good to know ;-)

Any recommendation about the ownership of the 'cops' folder?

[vlad59]

Originally Posted by garax

Good to know ;-)

Any recommendation about the ownership of the 'cops' folder?

Well COPS only read files and never write any so any owner will do. I personally use www-data on my debian server. On my synology I've used the user owning most of the samba shares to ease the update of config_local.php

[deksden]

Is there any proper way to configure access to my COPS catalog on Synology NAS? I want to be able to "login" to browse catalog from my iOS devices! And i want to restrict unauthorized browsing of catalog.

Installed from package (0.3.1-1) on DSM4.2/DS409+.

[vlad59]

Originally Posted by deksden

Is there any proper way to configure access to my COPS catalog on Synology NAS? I want to be able to "login" to browse catalog from my iOS devices! And i want to restrict unauthorized browsing of catalog.

Installed from package (0.3.1-1) on DSM4.2/DS409+.

I'm not sure to fully understand what you're asking.

If you want to enable password protection on your synology, you can uncomment the following lines in your .htaccess :

###########################################
# Uncomment if you wish to protect access with a password
###########################################
#AuthUserFile /path/to/file
#AuthGroupFile /dev/null
#AuthName "Acces securise"
#AuthType Basic
#Require valid-user

You have to adapt /path/to/file to use a real path.
You can use any online htpasswd generator to build the file (http://www.htaccesstools.com/htpasswd-generator/ for example).

[vlad59]

Synology package for COPS 0.3.2 is out.

See here for adding the new package repository.


Or here for the package

[maxjens]

I used the Epub metadata setting, because I liked the idea of getting the latest metadata displayed instead of the one in the file itself.

/*
* Update Epub metadata before download
* 1 : Yes (enable)
* 0 : No
*/
$config['cops_update_epub-metadata'] = "1";

After a while i noticed that i got a lot of errors trying to download a book. I use Wamp and cops 0.2.3 (latest version). It took me a while to discover that it was this setting that created the error. I set it back to zero and the errors stopped.

For the download i use Marvin / Stanza or Shubook on the ipad. They all gave an error when downloading the book.

Hopefully you can figure out what causes this error.