COPS : Calibre OPDS PHP Server

[Calibius]

Well that's good! With basic auth working it should be fairly simple to setup the per user configs!

Also know that with the alternate filematch in you config_local.php file you need to set the secure fetch.php option. I'm posting from my phone at the moment, so I can't send you the exact option, and you shouldn't worry about it until everything else is working. But that filematch option opens fetch.php to being insecure and you can access it to potentially download files et centers without authentication

[MontyJ]

Originally Posted by Calibius

Well that's good! With basic auth working it should be fairly simple to setup the per user configs!

Also know that with the alternate filematch in you config_local.php file you need to set the secure fetch.php option. I'm posting from my phone at the moment, so I can't send you the exact option, and you shouldn't worry about it until everything else is working. But that filematch option opens fetch.php to being insecure and you can access it to potentially download files et centers without authentication

Ok, good to know!

Next step was to add the send email option. Here is the entry I made in config_local.cfg:

    $config['cops_mail_configuration'] = array( "smtp.host"     => "smtp.gmail.com",
                                                "smtp.username" => "myacct@gmail.com",
                                                "smtp.password" => "mygmailpassword",
                                                "smtp.secure"   => "ssl",
                                                "address.from"  => "myhotmailacct");

I think I did this before and it worked, but it doesn't hurt to get extra eyes on it!

[mariosipad]

@MontyJ

My e-mail entry looks like:

     $config['cops_mail_configuration'] = array( "smtp.host"     => "smtp.gmail.com",
                                                 "smtp.username" => "myacct@gmail.com",
                                                 "smtp.password" => "mypasswd",
                                                 "smtp.secure"   => "ssl",
                                                 "address.from"  => "myacct@gmail.com",
						 "subject"       => "Sent by COPS : "
                                                 );

Why use hotmail as "address.from"?

[mariosipad]

Originally Posted by Calibius

Also know that with the alternate filematch in you config_local.php file you need to set the secure fetch.php option. I'm posting from my phone at the moment, so I can't send you the exact option, and you shouldn't worry about it until everything else is working. But that filematch option opens fetch.php to being insecure and you can access it to potentially download files et centers without authentication

There is no such option in my config_default.php / config_local.php.
Or are you referring to:

    /*
     * If you use a Sony eReader or Aldiko you can't download ebooks if your catalog
     * is password protected. A simple workaround is to leave fetch.php not protected (see .htaccess).
     * But In that case your COPS installation is not completely safe.
     * Setting this parameter to "1" ensure that nobody can access fetch.php before accessing
     * index.php or feed.php first.
     * BEWARE : Do not touch this if you're not using password, not using PRS-TX or not using Aldiko.
     */
    $config ['cops_fetch_protect'] = '0';

I never needed nor used that setting.

[Calibius]

Of course, I believe you're correct. I don't know where I pulled that from. Haha. I got confused. I really thought I read something about that but I guess I'm crazy.

Edit: I actually did find that in .htaccess in a comment before the filesmatch block at the bottom. I knew I wasn't completely crazy. Monty only needs it if he uses the modified filematch, which he said he requires for it to work for him. Thus, you wouldn't need to worry about the config setting.

[MontyJ]

Originally Posted by mariosipad

@MontyJ

My e-mail entry looks like:

     $config['cops_mail_configuration'] = array( "smtp.host"     => "smtp.gmail.com",
                                                 "smtp.username" => "myacct@gmail.com",
                                                 "smtp.password" => "mypasswd",
                                                 "smtp.secure"   => "ssl",
                                                 "address.from"  => "myacct@gmail.com",
						 "subject"       => "Sent by COPS : "
                                                 );

Why use hotmail as "address.from"?

Gmail is a non-standard email address for the members of my forum/group. Given they are an, shall we say, 'older' demographic, it could confuse them. They are used to seeing the Hotmail email address.

[mariosipad]

Originally Posted by Calibius

Of course, I believe you're correct. I don't know where I pulled that from. Haha. I got confused. I really thought I read something about that but I guess I'm crazy.

I would not dare to confirm your statement about your mental health.

However, if you use <FilesMatch "(index|feed)\.php"> in .htaccess that would mean that fetch.php is not password protected. Not good.

[MontyJ]

Originally Posted by mariosipad

There is no such option in my config_default.php / config_local.php.
Or are you referring to:

    /*
     * If you use a Sony eReader or Aldiko you can't download ebooks if your catalog
     * is password protected. A simple workaround is to leave fetch.php not protected (see .htaccess).
     * But In that case your COPS installation is not completely safe.
     * Setting this parameter to "1" ensure that nobody can access fetch.php before accessing
     * index.php or feed.php first.
     * BEWARE : Do not touch this if you're not using password, not using PRS-TX or not using Aldiko.
     */
    $config ['cops_fetch_protect'] = '0';

I never needed nor used that setting.

But I am using password, so should I change it?

I should have added I turned on Pagekite and this all working through the web as well, not just locally!

By the way, the email thing is working; I just had a book sent to my Kindle Paperwhite. It does show up as a "Doc" format. No clue why that is but it opens like a normal .mobi file, so no complaints so far!

[Calibius]

Originally Posted by mariosipad

I would not dare to confirm your statement about your mental health.

However, if you use <FilesMatch "(index|feed)\.php"> in .htaccess that would mean that fetch.php is not password protected. Not good.

Haha. That's what I thought I had said! Maybe I just didn't clarify what I meant very well.

[mariosipad]

Maybe not now, maybe later if everything works. ;-)

[mariosipad]

To prepare for the upcoming launch of Debian Stretch and to see if COPS still works with the new Debian version I decided to try to install COPS from the github source (git clone) on a fresh install of stretch.

What i did (add sudo or su where needed. to test I just use root ):

apt-get install apache2 php7.0 git
apt-get install php7.0-gd php7.0-sqlite3 php7.0-json php7.0-intl
systemctl restart apache2
cd /var/www/html
git clone https://github.com/seblucas/cops
cd cops
wget https://getcomposer.org/composer.phar
php composer.phar global require "fxp/composer-asset-plugin:~1.1"
php composer.phar install --no-dev --optimize-autoloader

With this last line I ran into the following problem / error:

Your requirements could not be resolved to an installable set of packages.

  Problem 1
    - The requested PHP extension ext-xml * is missing from your system. Install or enable PHP's xml extension.
  Problem 2
    - The requested PHP extension ext-mbstring * is missing from your system. Install or enable PHP's mbstring extension.
  Problem 3
    - Installation request for seblucas/php-epub-meta 1.0.0 -> satisfiable by seblucas/php-epub-meta[1.0.0].
    - seblucas/php-epub-meta 1.0.0 requires ext-xml * -> the requested PHP extension xml is missing from your system.

This was easily resolved by:

apt-get install php7.0-xml php7.0-mbstring php7.0-zip

As far as I can remember this was not needed on Debian Jessie. (Jessie does not know/need these packages for php5.)

I just thought I document it here for future reference.

[superturrican]

Does Calibre 3.0 introduce any changes to the database format it uses that might break compatibility with COPS?

[kovidgoyal]

THere are no changes to the database format.

[dscottf]

way back in 1.0.0RC1 - 20140404 Monocle was added:
"Added an embedded Epub Reader based on Monocle. Thanks to all the beta testers."

my question is:
the vast majority of my books (and they all all in both epub and mobi format) do not show the reader icon. Some do, but I cannot figure out what the difference is. Undoubtedly some formatting difference (almost all were converted in Calibre over the years).

What triggers the embedded reader icon?

[mariosipad]

@dscottf

I just tested on my ebooks if it still works, and it does (with everyone of the epub files I tried = 10+).
It works only with epub files (It's an epub reader after all).

Can you give an example of an epub where it does not work? (Maybe make your own epub in calibre out of some random text?)