#Calibre server docker password#

Login using the username abc and password password (or whatever you set the PASSWORD environment variable to above - if you did not set a password then leave it blank). If you’ve used the Calibre Desktop application on your local computer, the interface and the questions will be familiar to you already. Once this is up and running, browse to (where is the address of the server the Docker container is running on) to access the Calibre Server Desktop app. Note that the parameter -security-opt seccomp=unconfined may be optional for you, but it was required for me to run this on a QNAP NAS. To run the Docker container use docker run -name calibre-server -security-opt seccomp=unconfined -p 48080:8080 -p 48081:8081 -e PASSWORD='password' -e TZ='Europe/London' -v /calibre-library:/config linuxserver/calibre:latest.To get the Docker image onto your system, run docker pull linuxserver/calibre:latest (this command is optional as the next command will pull it down anyway).

Once you have decided all of the above, you need to get the Docker container up and running: There is no set mapping inside the Docker container to use, so I am going to use /mybooks and use the parameter -v /share/books:/mybooks where /share/books is a shared folder on the host that I can drop books into.Ĭreating the Calibre Server Docker Container Like the above Calibre library location, you will mount this as a volume using -v. This is going to be somewhere you can drop new books and then use the Calibre Server Desktop App to add to your library. The Docker container needs access to a folder where you have, or will have, your books. So the parameter I will add will be -v /calibre:/config. I will use host location /calibre-library to map to the /config location inside the container. I am in Europe/London so the parameter I will use is -e TZ='Europe/London'.Īdd the location you want to store you Calibre database and library using the -v parameter to mount it in Docker as a volume mapping to /config inside the container. You can set your timezone that Calibre Server will use by providing the TZ environment variable. For this post I’m going to use password for demo purposes so the parameter I will add will be -e PASSWORD='password' I’d always recommend you set a password, and you do that by adding the PASSWORD environment variable for the Docker container. Will you set a password for your Calibre server? For this post I’m going to use ports 4801. The Calibre Content Server port is 8081, which is another commonly used port. This is a commonly used port, so you may want to change it to something else. Things you will need to decide before you start to use the Docker image:īy default, the Calibre Server Desktop app will listen on port 8080. I’ll only be concentrating on the Calibre Server Docker container for this post. The Calibre Web Docker image is available for 32-bit ARM and it provides “a clean interface for browsing, reading and downloading eBooks using an existing Calibre database”. Calibre Server is only available as 64-bit for x86 and ARM. In fact there are two - one for server and one for web.

#Calibre server docker manual#

This allows me to run Docker containers in a limited way through the GUI (some features are not available) or in a manual way from the command line.Ĭalibre Server has a Docker image. When running server side applications these days, I prefer to use Docker under my QNAP NAS. It does appear many people are successfully using it this way, but I will need to be conscious to the risk of database corruption. As I have multiple computers and wanted to use a network share or Syncthing to keep the content, I’m going to have to rethink this. So this made me wonder why I’d need instructions moving between computers.ĭo not put your calibre library on a networked drive.Ĭalibre recommends not storing the Calibre library and database on a network drive. I’ve used Calibre in the past and I always thought it was a static set of folders and files. I then ran the application which started the configuration wizard, but the first page stopped me.Ĭalibre Configuration Wizard reminding you that you can export from an old computer and import to a new one.

#Calibre server docker install#

So I thought I’d give it a try.įirst step is first installing the desktop application on my computer using Chocolatey choco install calibre. Calibre seems to be the only show in town for managing, converting and keeping track of all of your e-books.

Local files and folders has got me to a stage where it’s getting kinda messy and difficult to manage. I need a new way to keep control of my ever-growing, ever-sprawling, e-book collection.