I just wanted to enable authentication by userdb but when I access the website I get an http-500 error. The logfile contains the following information:
The access works flawless without authentication. I tried to change the permissions on the metadata.db but this doesn't change or solve the problem.
Code:
calibre server listening on 127.0.0.1:4711
OPDS feeds advertised via BonJour at: 127.0.0.1 port: 4711
Unhandled exception in state: State: _job_done Client: 127.0.0.1:58696 Request: GET /calibre/interface-data/books-init?library_id=calibre-library&sort=timestamp.desc&1531057863804 HTTP/1.1
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages/calibre/srv/loop.py", line 569, in tick
File "site-packages/calibre/srv/loop.py", line 307, in _job_done
File "site-packages/calibre/srv/pool.py", line 35, in run
File "site-packages/calibre/srv/http_response.py", line 441, in run_request_handler
File "site-packages/calibre/srv/routes.py", line 305, in dispatch
File "site-packages/calibre/srv/auth.py", line 258, in __call__
File "site-packages/calibre/srv/auth.py", line 296, in do_http_auth
File "site-packages/calibre/srv/auth.py", line 252, in check
File "site-packages/calibre/srv/users.py", line 139, in get
File "site-packages/calibre/srv/users.py", line 80, in conn
CantOpenError: CantOpenError: unable to open database file
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