Tweaking the Calibre Web Server

[Geremia]

Is there a way to tweak the cherrypy Calibre Library webserver? I see stuff in: calibre/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cherrypy

I want to set a robots.txt and use SSL (HTTPS). Is there a *.conf file I can edit somewhere?

thanks

[eschwartz]

Why not just reverse proxy it through apache?

[Geremia]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

Why not just reverse proxy it through apache?

Hmm… There's an idea. thanks

[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by Geremia

Hmm… There's an idea. thanks

Especially because it is the official calibre recommendation, too: http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/server.html

[chaley]

I use an apache reverse proxy to do exactly what you want, SSL and auth. I use digest auth. My library is at "https://my-site/library", so I have calibre set up with a prefix. I use port 9192 internally between calibre and apache. That port is not permitted through the firewall.

The section in the ssl-sites config file looks like:

        <Location "/library">
                AuthType Digest
                AuthName "Whatever you want"
                AuthDigestDomain /

                AuthDigestProvider file
                AuthUserFile path-to-file-for-digest-passwords
                Require valid-user
        </Location>
        RewriteEngine on
        RewriteRule ^/library/(.*) http://127.0.0.1:9192/library/$1 [proxy]
        RewriteRule ^/library http://127.0.0.1:9192 [proxy]

[Geremia]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

Especially because it is the official calibre recommendation, too: http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/server.html

thanks
I didn't know about calibre-server's "--url-prefix"; that's useful.