Daniel James

Installation problem !
The Debian/Ubuntu package is easier for most users, it just takes a little time to prepare and test. As for the timescale of the next release, I will ask my colleagues. Cheers! Daniel

Comment by Daniel James December 2016 permalink
Installation problem !
Hi Michael, you're welcome :-) We accept that the installation from git is not very easy, I can ask about creating a new Debian/Ubuntu package for our next release.

Comment by Daniel James December 2016 permalink
Installation problem !
Perhaps you don't have your environment variables loaded. Try this: . ./booktype.env ./manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8005

Comment by Daniel James December 2016 permalink
Installation problem !
Hi, we would recommend that you use a fully qualified domain name when using the production profile with CSS cache etc. Try the method shown at 'Testing a Booktype instance' here first: http://sourcefabric.booktype.pro/booktype-21-for-auth…

Comment by Daniel James December 2016 permalink
Installation problem !
Are you accessing the Booktype instance via http://192.168.1.42 or a fully qualified domain name? Please take a look at the Apache error log and paste any relevant lines here.

Comment by Daniel James December 2016 permalink
Installation problem !
Hi Michael, your English is fine! This issue is likely to be caused by the path to static files used in the interface. If you take a look at the source of the login page, what is the URL of the CSS files? For example: Is the URL you see valid, i.e.…

Comment by Daniel James December 2016 permalink
Please tell us about how you use Booktype
Hi Willian, We have considered a side by side mode for translators. Currently, most of our users export and translate the source document before uploading the new translation to Booktype, then use the History features to check for new updates to th…

Comment by Daniel James December 2016 permalink
FreeBSD fresh install: questions and switching from dev to prod
Hi Willian, You're welcome :-) The native export and re-import (cloning) feature is deprecated in Booktype 2.x. because we now support EPUB export and import. Previously in Booktype 1.6.x we used a custom internal format but that did not inter…

Comment by Daniel James December 2016 permalink
FreeBSD fresh install: questions and switching from dev to prod
Hi Willian, Your English is fine, no need to apologise :-) I'll answer your questions by number... 1. The example at https://wiki.sourcefabric.org/display/Booktype/How+to+use+Booktype+with+Nginx is old and meant for development. I read on htt…

Comment by Daniel James December 2016 permalink
Booktype on Windows 10 using Oracle VM Virtual Box
Hi Arne, Could you attach fresh logs from the new instance please? Thanks! Daniel

Comment by Daniel James November 2016 permalink
Booktype on Windows 10 using Oracle VM Virtual Box
Congratulations Arne, you have found a real bug :-) https://dev.sourcefabric.org/browse/BK-2080 and now https://dev.sourcefabric.org/browse/BK-2081 broke the installer. These should be fixed in https://github.com/sourcefabric/Booktype/pull/603/files…

Comment by Daniel James November 2016 permalink
Booktype on Windows 10 using Oracle VM Virtual Box
Hi Arne, In booktype-instance1.conf the first two lines ServerName and HTTP_HOST should be just: booktype.arnemueller.com like this: ServerName booktype.arnemueller.com SetEnv HTTP_HOST "booktype.arnemueller.com" Then reload the Apach…

Comment by Daniel James November 2016 permalink
Booktype on Windows 10 using Oracle VM Virtual Box
Hi Arne, Looks like you have an issue because the hostname of the Ubuntu virtual server is not resolveable: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1. Set the 'ServerName' directive globa…

Comment by Daniel James November 2016 permalink
Booktype on Windows 10 using Oracle VM Virtual Box
Hi Arne, Yes, error 500 is an internal server error and could be anything. First place to look for clues is in the Booktype and Apache error logs on the Ubuntu guest OS, for example with the terminal command: sudo tail /var/log/apache2/error.log …

Comment by Daniel James October 2016 permalink
Booktype on Windows 10 using Oracle VM Virtual Box
Hi Arne, Which GNU/Linux distro did you host on Virtualbox, and did you use the automatic or manual install? If you have a screenshot, that would help. Cheers! Daniel

Comment by Daniel James October 2016 permalink
Unknown error while trying to publish this book.
Hi Mick, If all outputs fail, it sounds like a server-side configuration issue. As you're a Booktype Pro user, you can file a ticket directly with the support team at https://sourcefabricberlin.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/requests/new Cheers! Danie…

Comment by Daniel James September 2016 permalink
Cannot create Admin account
Hi Milt, 1. Generally, you should back up the whole instance directory in /var/www/booktype or similar, whichever directories you are serving with Apache, as well as your database (please see https://github.com/sourcefabric/Booktype/blob/master/scr…

Comment by Daniel James September 2016 permalink
Missing Book Directory after 2.1.0 manual install
Hi Sharan, Do you have backup copies of the books from the previous install, such as EPUBs? It may be that you deleted some book files, such as images, when wiping your previous install. As I understand it, static files imported into a book are not…

Comment by Daniel James August 2016 permalink
errors trying to install booktype in digitalocean
Hi Kofi, did you get the same result when using both the automated install and the above tutorial? The first thing to check is that in dev.py you have all three of the database parameters entered correctly, e.g: ``` 'NAME': 'booktype…

Comment by Daniel James August 2016 permalink
Cannot create Admin account
Hi Milton, good to hear that you got this working! Please provide details of your installation so we can figure out why you got the error: CommandError: Could not create the user. For example, which server platform you are using, and whether you in…

Comment by Daniel James August 2016 permalink
errors trying to install booktype in digitalocean
Hi Kofi, my best guess is that you have some settings missing from base.py or dev.py, such as your database password. Please check over these files and let us know if that fixes the issue.

Comment by Daniel James August 2016 permalink
Problems upgrading from automated install to manual install
Hi Sharan, The automated install differs from the documented tarball install in some aspects, for example the use of a virtualenv for the Python libraries. Until the 2.1 automatic update is available, I'd suggest making a clean install of 2.1 …

Comment by Daniel James August 2016 permalink
Adding an index to a book
Hi Sharan, If you are using mPDF to create book PDFs, there is a feature for this, please see https://mpdf.github.io/what-else-can-i-do/index.html In some custom Booktype projects, we have added a feature such as Insert -> Index entry to the ed…

Comment by Daniel James August 2016 permalink
Problems running Booktype createsuperuser
Hi Sharan, If you still have problems importing your EPUB after validating it, please let us know. In the meantime, you could try importing an EPUB known to work on our test servers, such as this copy of the Booktype manual: http://objavi.booktype…

Comment by Daniel James July 2016 permalink
Problems running Booktype createsuperuser
Hi Sharan, Sorry to hear that you're having trouble with this EPUB. The Booktype instance log files under /var/www/booktype/instance1/ may have some useful information. Please upload your EPUB somewhere we can download it, or email it as an a…

Comment by Daniel James July 2016 permalink
Problems running Booktype createsuperuser
Hi Sharan, Please post details of your EPUB issue and provide a sample file if possible. It may be a known issue, or a bug we haven't seen yet. We have two install methods, manual from the git repository or tarball, or automatic with the APT …

Comment by Daniel James July 2016 permalink
Problems running Booktype createsuperuser
Hi Sharan, Glad to hear that worked for you. Please bear in mind that the automated install currently offers the 2.0 release, and there have been a lot of bug fixes since then. When the 2.1 release is made, we will offer an upgrade package in the s…

Comment by Daniel James July 2016 permalink
Import Book from .docx file failed (because it "contains errors and cannot be converted.")
Hi Joris, in the meantime you can also update python-ooxml to the latest commit with the command: sudo pip install -e git://github.com/booktype/python-ooxml.git@833e65808b39ca3bc5499f64ad38f73c6458372a#egg=Python_OOXML Please let us know if that w…

Comment by Daniel James July 2016 permalink
Problems running Booktype createsuperuser
Hi Sharan, We can help you get this Booktype instance working. Firstly, if you have used the automatic install then the superuser password will have been set from whatever you entered in the purple screen 'Enter a strong password for the admin…

Comment by Daniel James July 2016 permalink
Import Book from .docx file failed (because it "contains errors and cannot be converted.")
Hi Joris, The file in Booktype which does the import: lib/booktype/importer/docx/docximporter.pydoes support logging, so please try another import and then take a look at the end of this log file, with the less command: less +G /var/www/booktype/in…

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