Content server not presenting correctly

[Ersatzreifen]

Has anyone seen this happen with the content server before? I just formatted my root partition and reinstalled the entire system from scratch, and now when trying to browse the content server it looks all messed up like this:



I've reinstalled calibre too, but that didn't change anything. I've tried different browsers, and used my tablet to look at it, and it's the same on all. That tells me it's not the browser doing it. Does anyone know what's causing this, and what to do about it?

[theducks]

I think this is a browser issue

The WEB page use javascript

yours is blocked or broken

[BetterRed]

What does it look like on the server itself, looks like your rooted device is well and truly so ('rooted' is Oz slang for broken)

BR

[Ersatzreifen]

Originally Posted by theducks

I think this is a browser issue

The WEB page use javascript

yours is blocked or broken

It's a server-side issue since it looks the same whether I use any browser on the server itself, or from my tablet. Have a direct look and see if it's the same for you: http://behne.ddns.net/library

I'm pretty sure the problem is somewhere in the new operating system's software, but I don't know what steps to take to diagnose and fix it.

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by Ersatzreifen

It's a server-side issue since it looks the same whether I use any browser on the server itself, or from my tablet. Have a direct look and see if it's the same for you: http://behne.ddns.net/library

I'm pretty sure the problem is somewhere in the new operating system's software, but I don't know what steps to take to diagnose and fix it.

The stylesheets are missing. When I did a view page and then tried to retrieve the stylesheets, I received a 404 for all of them. That could mean the files are missing, or the permissions are wrong. Hopefully the server logs should show which it is.

[Ersatzreifen]

Originally Posted by davidfor

The stylesheets are missing. When I did a view page and then tried to retrieve the stylesheets, I received a 404 for all of them. That could mean the files are missing, or the permissions are wrong. Hopefully the server logs should show which it is.

Well, I can safely say that you lost me. I know nothing about stylesheets in Calibre, where they are or are supposed to be, why they maybe didn't get installed or what would have changed their permissions. I barely was able to find how you did a 'view page' to get that 404 response. I looked in /var/log/apache2/access_log but didn't see anything.

I downloaded the tarball calibre-2.76.0-x86_64.txz and used it to forcibly replace all calibre's files manually, then restarted calibre-server. No difference. But this tells me that there's no problem with calibre's files. The problem must be with the OS somewhere.

I used opensuse's Yast to search foe all installed software concerning javascript, and did an unconditional reinstall of all of it. That also made no difference.

So, what should I do now?

[theducks]

the stylesheets for the content server (and most else) exist in one of 2 locations

1)the program folder\resources\content server
and for user Overrides, place YOUR version in the same relation
2) the user preferences (AKA configuration )folder\content server

[Ersatzreifen]

Originally Posted by theducks

the stylesheets for the content server (and most else) exist in one of 2 locations

1)the program folder\resources\content server
and for user Overrides, place YOUR version in the same relation
2) the user preferences (AKA configuration )folder\content server

behne:~ # ls -l `locate jquery.multiselect.css`
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1374 May 28  2013 /opt/calibre/resources/content_server/jquery.multiselect.css

behne:~ # ls -l `locate jquery-ui-1.8.5.custom.css`
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25668 May 28  2013 /opt/calibre/resources/content_server/jquery_ui/css/humanity-custom/jquery-ui-1.8.5.custom.css

behne:~ # ls -l `locate browse.css`
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7646 May 28  2013 /opt/calibre/resources/content_server/browse/browse.css
behne:~ #

Looks like all three missing stylesheets are all right there where they should be, and they're all world readable too. So I'm wondering why they can't be found, and what's not finding them that should be.

So next I simply copied them to ~/.config/calibre/resources/content_server/ while maintaining the paths below the resources directory, and voila! That got it displaying properly. But now when you click on a category it doesn't do anything, it just sits there looking pretty. I think I'd much rather be able to fix it all without having to put everything in my ~/.config/calibre tree. But how?