Connect calibre-server to internet via Apache

[aurigod]

I have installed an internet server with Apache protected by htaccess on a raspberry pi 2. I use COPS but I would like to use calibre-server most friendly.

I have installed Calibre-server on the the raspberry. It works.
How to connect an internet URL <Internet IP>/calibre for example to <local-IP>:8080 ?
I want to use Apache to keep htAccess and several user logins.

[kovidgoyal]

http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/server.html

[aurigod]

Thanks, I tried, but my installation of calibre is problably wrong because I get the Error Message with http://localhost:8080/calibre

404 Not Found
The path '/calibre' was not found.
Powered by CherryPy 3.2.2

[eschwartz]

Did you start calibre with the parameter

--url-prefix /calibre

Otherwise simply use http://localhost:8080
Normally calibre doesn't use any path at all for the landing page.



You NEED to use the --url-prefix in order to keep calibre on the same VirtualHost as other services.

[aurigod]

I think the Rewrite doesn't work.
I am going to fix first this problem.
Thanks

[aurigod]

I have fixed the problem using virtual host and mod_proxy apache

Install mod_proxy mod_proxyhttp
Create a virtual host reached by 'http://bibli.<domain>
edit the site

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
ServerName bibli.<domain>
ProxyPass / http://192.168.1.xxx:8080/
ProxyPassReverse / http://192.168.1.xxx:8080/
ProxyPreserveHost On
</VirtualHost>

[aurigod]

I put my calibre-server to ArchLinux from Raspian
(problem calibre verion too older) .
All works on Archlinux at the moment except "AuthUserFile" however my virtual host with restricted access worked on Raspian.

Here is the error message :

404 Not Found
The path '/error/HTTP_UNAUTHORIZED.html.var' was not found.
Powered by CherryPy 3.8.0

I want to know how accessing to the error log of the CherryPi to try to fix that
Thanks

[eschwartz]

You can find the calibre-server logs in your calibre configuration directory (which on linux is "~/.config/calibre/").
See:

server_access_log.txt
server_error_log.txt

...


But that appears to be the standard apache error page for 401 UNAUTHORIZED (missing authorization, try again)

[aurigod]

Thanks, it is an Apache problem, but I got another one, sorry :-(
with native password in Calibre-Server / CherryPy / Python with passwords :

TypeError: n must be a native str (got unicode)

I saw the error was knowed but I did not find the solution.
I tried all this arguments :
password toto
password=toto
password "toto"
password="toto"

[eschwartz]

You will have to install my calibre-git package from the AUR for that.

yaourt -S calibre-git

There is a couple of outstanding five-year-old bugs in cherrypy that are fixed in calibre's bundled copy of cherrypy.
But most distros only see the "bundled code copy !!!!" part, freak out, and remove it in favor of a system copy of cherrypy.

For interest, here is the ArchLinux bug report for this issue: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/43382
Debian does the same thing (though I have never bothered filing a bug report with them), which affects derivatives including raspbian and Ubuntu, so I can't really blame Arch specifically...

my calibre-git package in the AUR does the right (practical) thing and depends on calibre's own patched copy of cherrypy.


Since you are using an apache reverse proxy, it *shouldn't* matter, because you should be able to use apache's auth methods, and the upstream cherrypy bug only affects calibre-server's builtin password handling.
Maybe try to figure out what your apache problem is?