do you set up a new user and password for calibre-web?.

Just a couple more questions about using calibre-web: After enabling the 'Upload books' option in calibre-web's admin config, I could upload PDFs, epubs and mobis. I entered /books as the database directory and everything worked as expected. I placed the metadata file in my /books directory before going to the calibre-web portal. I had to delete the multiple calibre and calibre-web images in portainer and directories in my /appdata folder from my previous failed attempts at installing calibre-web and start with as clean of a slate as I could. I struggled for a while to get this to work but finally got calibre-web working without calibre proper and just this metadata file in place of an existing calibre database. Once it's accepted, log in w/ the default user and password (admin admin123) and start setting things up. Go back to the Calibre-web UI and enter /books for your database location, assuming you followed the recommended paths. empty extension (I done that to differentiate it from the backup of my actual database), and put it in your /books directory That's my google drive and it's a file called 'metadata.db.empty'Īs the name implies, it is an empty metadata file.ĭownload it, dump the. You've got calibre-web installed, so the rest is easy if you trust me. Here's how initially set it up a long time ago, since I didn't already have a collection of ebooks in calibre.

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