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Calibre-web on FreeNAS

Creating the Jail

  • Step 1 - Name Jail and Choose FreeBSD Release

    • Name: calibre-jail
    • Jail Type: Default(Clone Jail)
    • Release: 11.3-RELEASE

  • Step 2 - Configure Networking

    • DHCP Autoconfigure IPv4 (check)
    • VNET (check)

  • Step 3 - Confirm Options

Running the Jail and setting up calibre-web

  1. Start the jail and go to the shell.
  2. Make sure you have installed the package manager:
pkg update
  1. Install git, pip, python and sqlite3:
pkg install git && pkg install py37-pip && pkg install python && pkg install sqlite3 && pkg install py37-sqlite3
  1. Clone the calibre-web repository
cd /
git clone https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web.git
  1. Follow the "Quick start":
cd calibre-web/
pip install --target vendor -r requirements.txt
  1. Execute:
python cps.py

Open your web browser and go to http://[jail-ip-address]:8083, if everything goes fine you will see:

  1. Stop de Jail and add the mountpoint of your library (do not forget to check the Auto-start box in the edit section)

  2. Start the Jail, go to the jail's shell and create an startup script:

touch /calibre-web/cw-startup.sh

echo '#\!/bin/sh' >> /calibre-web/cw-startup.sh
echo 'nohup python /calibre-web/cps.py &' >> /calibre-web/cw-startup.sh

chmod +x /calibre-web/cw-startup.sh
  1. Add the script to the crontab
echo '@reboot root /calibre-web/cw-startup.sh' >> /etc/crontab
  1. Restart the jail and go to http://[jail-ip-address]:8083
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