calibre newbie trying to start server

[sirajahmad]

Hi!

I am a completely newbie trying to start calibre on my server.
I had a working installation on my server setup by another developer last week.
Yesterday my SSL certificate expired, the developer was not available and I tried to renew the SSL. I had no SSH access to the server (Digital Ocean), so I ended up resetting the root password by using the recovery console.

When I gained access to the server, all the previous command history were gone. Although I have renewed the SSL certificate, now I am unable to start the calibre.

I have been digging through the forum for past 4 hours now. Here's some of the useful item I have found on the server which might be helpful in debugging.

1. " calibre-debug --paths" returns:

CALIBRE_RESOURCES_PATH=/opt/calibre/resources
CALIBRE_EXTENSIONS_PATH=/opt/calibre/lib/python2.7/site-packages/calibre/plugins
CALIBRE_PYTHON_PATH=/opt/calibre/lib/python2.7:/opt/calibre/lib/python2.7/plat-linux2:/opt/calibre/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload:/opt/calibre/lib/python2.7/site-packages

2. I have following files in /root directory:

drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 9 2017 03-10-17
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 72983 Mar 10 2017 bkp.tar.gz
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Apr 19 2016 data
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 108980806 Mar 10 2017 data.tar.gz
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jul 22 2017 Downloads
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Oct 26 2019 epub
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Sep 29 04:45 folleto-library

3. "calibre-server /root/folleto-library/" returns

There is no calibre library at: /root/folleto-library/

4. " calibre-server --enable-local-write" returns

You must specify at least one calibre library


5. "calibre-server --with-library "/root/folleto-library" --port=8080" returns

Usage: calibre-server [options] [path to library folder...]

Start the calibre Content server. The calibre Content server exposes your
calibre libraries over the internet. You can specify the path to the library
folders as arguments to calibre-server. If you do not specify any paths, all the
libraries that the main calibre program knows about will be used.


Whenever you pass arguments to calibre-server that have spaces in them, enclose the arguments in quotation marks. For example: "/some path/with spaces"

calibre-server: error: no such option: --with-library


6. The installed version is :

calibre-server (calibre 3.4)


I'm not sure how much these information would be helpful, but any help would be really appreciated.

Thank you

[Iridium]

I'm unable to give you a specific reply because I've never tried to set up calibre server, but I found what seems like a great guide with all the steps (including starting the server and SSL certificates) online, I hope it can give you some inspiration, if you haven't already read it:
https://www.digitalocean.com/communi...n-ubuntu-18-04

[PeterT]

Remember that one challenge you'll have is that the syntax for calibre-server has changed between 3.4 and the current version, so the calibre documentation will not apply.

When I have more time I'll see if kovid has older versions of the documentation online.

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[kovidgoyal]

Your version of calibre is very old the server was completely re-written for calibre 4. I suggest either updating the distro or if you dont want to do that, use the calibre binary install from https://calibre-ebook.com/download_linux

Then you should be able to use up to date documentation for setting up the server.

[CubGeek]

you'll need to know the path to at least one of your libraries, what are the contents of the /root/folleto-library/ directory? I have my libraries located like this:

/path/calibre-library/cookbooks
/path/calibre-library/fiction
/path/calibre-library/non-fiction
/path/calibre-library/technical

So, on my old 3.39.1 (hooray for out-of-date repos ) install, the bare-bones command (if I wanted to only serve up the Technical library) looks something like this:

calibre-server /path/calibre-library/technical --enable-local-write --enable-auth

If you have multiple libraries, it'll be something like:

calibre-server /path/to/library1 /path/to/library2 /path/to/library3 --enable-local-write --enable-auth

The "--enable-auth" is used if you have user accounts and passwords created in the calibre server that are used to authenticate before people can see the library and contents.

Good luck.