Serve Calibre Library with COPS

Dmitri Popov

Productivity Sauce

Mar 29, 2013 GMT
Dmitri Popov

If you want to access your Calibre ebook library via a browser, you either use Calibre's built-in content server, or you can opt for something more nimble like COPS (COPS stands for Calibre OPDS PHP Server).

Deploying the application on a server is relatively easy. Grab the latest version of COPS from the project's website, unpack the downloaded archive, and rename the resulting directory to cops. Rename then the config_local.php.example file to config_local.php. Open the file in a text editor, and specify the path to the Calibre library, for example:

$config['calibre_directory'] = './calibre/';

In this example, the Calibre library is stored in the calibre folder inside the cops directory, but you can link COPS to a library stored in another location. Upload the entire cops directory to the root of your server, point your browser to http://127.0.0.1/cops (replace 127.0.0.1 with the actual IP address or domain name of your server), and you should see the COPS interface.

Thanks Sebastien for the tip!

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