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[5 Mins Docker] Create Your Own Online e-Books Library with Calibre-web
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Mar 25, 2025
If you have many e-books you collected and you are wondering how to organize them and read them at any convenient time, you must try this Calibre-web github project. It uses popular Calibre db and modern web UI to achieve this. Since there is a docker image ready to use, we can quickly spin it up in 5 minutes. This video will demonstrate all the steps which you might need, especially Calibre DB part. Github : https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web Related Post: ✍https://g.51sec.org/books Related Videos: 🌟https://youtu.be/V1xnhqqg4Rw 🌟https://youtu.be/VhqCBZOjXF0 🌟https://youtu.be/_gKl_wtY_Gg 🌟https://youtu.be/vWyE6qn-46o 🌟https://youtu.be/FbihlMBNuro 🌟https://youtu.be/E9dHA3NBbN8 💖Chapters: 0:00 - Introduction 1:37 - Lets start it
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hello everyone welcome to my nasac
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YouTube channel this is Johnny in this
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video I'm going to talk about the
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caliber Das web Rel guitar project which
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I found when I trying to get uh ebook
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manager type software to manage all my
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downloaded the digital
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books and uh also my it documents then I
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found calibri Das WB is quite meet my
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requirement comparing to original calib
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list
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software which you also can find it from
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GitHub project it's already have 20K
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Cali Dash web has almost
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14.1k right now caliber does have a web
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interface already through a port 880
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which you can use browser to show you
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your calib libraries but uh considering
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the designing the web page the intuitive
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the web UI so C- web list project does
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doing much better job so that's why I
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decided to test it in my environment and
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build a website for myself and I think
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it it's good also to share to the all
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people who watch my channels so now
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let's start
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it calibr Das web is a independent
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project from original Cali
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project you don't have to install Cali
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on your system to start use cal- web so
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that's what this video for I'm going to
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show you how easy in five minutes you
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can start the docker with calibrate Dash
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web and then you can start to import
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your all digital books comic books into
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your system there's a Docker image
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created by n server which you can find
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from Linux server calra Das web and
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there a little bit guideline here but
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when you come to deployment it's always
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not that clear so that's why um I wanted
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to creating this video and show you like
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exactly each steps so you know how you
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can get it working properly without
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going through some uh Missing steps and
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just like me spend a couple hours to try
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and figure that out so that is what this
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video for get you to start it in five
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minutes then you can start to focus on
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your books
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as you can see from Linux server
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cal- web l images description you will
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find L doer compose and dock run command
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which you can directly copy paste to use
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it or you may want to change a bit
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before you can use it to testing that I
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always using play with Docker this
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Docker and box environment to testing it
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I do have my own blog post for list
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deployment you can find it from my
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website and you will find those Docker
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command as well but since we are using
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doer sendbox environment play with
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do.com this website we can directly
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paste that do run command and see how it
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goes control shift V once you copy the
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Do Run command which is easiest way for
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us to do if you will download the image
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since they can find it from local you
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may take just less than 30 seconds so
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everything going to be ready and then we
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can open port
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8083 that actually the easiest way we
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can test this so we can starting to do
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883 default username admin password
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admin
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123 Lo information you can find out from
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dock Hub Linux service dock description
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page
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well once you logged in you will notice
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they are trying to get you config
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database connections we don't have that
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and in the original do image website
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they didn't talk about this pieces we
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have to get our own caliber database
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empty one or you would maybe something
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it's already near but we need to have a
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database because this one will not
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create a database for you so I already
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have that red
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in my website for you so if
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you download the flash DB so we can use
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this link to directly download that one
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and put into the right place so let's go
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back here you need to find out your
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database place it's inside of
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Library folder because we have mapped
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books folder to library folder so now we
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can put this W get command to download
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this metadata.
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DB which you can see it's a sqlite
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format file once you we have that we can
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go back to our database configuration
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page and then choose SL folder let's go
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up up and it's books folder so we
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already have metadata. DB now so we
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select it then we can save it now you
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should be able to browse this web inter
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interface caliber dwb and the same more
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friendly and you can play with it until
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you feels comfortable then we can deploy
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into our own VPS which is next step I'm
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going to
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do to demonstrate how to install calibra
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web on your VPS I'm going to use my own
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UB
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22204 This Server to do step by step to
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tutorial here if you want to look at the
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steps I already put into my blog post
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here so I'm going to go through all of
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list but if you want to see the command
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you can come back to this blog post
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which you can find now in the video
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description it's always start from AP
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update so then you're going to to make
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sure you have enough memory and CPU for
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my list server is very small server if
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you want to increase your
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website depending on your Machin CPU
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memory just like what I have in on this
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machine I only have two which CPU and
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one gig ram I need to increase my swap
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side so in this case I can add swap for
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one gig depending on how much you
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already have so then you can add another
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one gig so because I already have one
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gig conf figured so which you can see I
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got this website so it won't all be
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successful but that's the point if you
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need more memory then you can add swap
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file for your system after that you
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probably want to install
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Docker and Docker
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compose in my case I already have it I
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we need to upgrade it same thing you may
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also want to install Docker comp
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so do compose is already latest version
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so after you did all those you can use
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Docker compose or you can use dock R I
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prefer dock R because it's much simple
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and easy to
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do there's one thing you need to know
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depending on your user you might using
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regular user so then you need to find
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out your pu ID PG ID since I'm using
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loot account the Pu ID and the PG ID
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both at zero you can use ID that command
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to get your pu ID and PG ID
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value so perfect dock round has
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completed so you can use in dock PS to
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see your dock status so it's opened on
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Port
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883 now we can see our public IP then we
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can useing IP plus 883 this port to
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access l this website now let's give it
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try so one thing you need to know 8083
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you have to open it to the Pu if you
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have firewall I'm using orle VPS so I
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already open that Port from orle
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dashboard the console so if you didn't
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do that just go back to your orle cons
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conso and open airport 883 if you want
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to know more about the Oro VPS then
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check this video for that we going to
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log
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in again so we need to get the database
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so we can to go back to our command
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line need go to our
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library we just go to the library going
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to using W get to get the library so
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we're going to use dou get command to
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download this empty ma dat. DB file and
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then
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config our database connection to layer
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books data select and save now you
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should be able to see one quick start
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guide this is just a record we don't
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have book in our system so that's how
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the UI looks
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like we're going to go
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to users and we're going to add it this
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user because we don't have upload option
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so there's one thing you you need to do
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after you did the leas if you want to
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upload your books you want to import
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your books you won't see the button here
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you have to
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go to
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admin to add it basic configuration to
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give a
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permission to enable upload so land you
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need to choose allowed upload file
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format so I will keep it default but for
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your information it support MP3 and
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quite a lot of format here even
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MP4 wav so they can play back allio
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but not video MP4 they only can play
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audios inside but not videos we going to
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test
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that
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save so now if you go back books it will
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be
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refreshed now you should be able to see
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upload so I have some examples here so I
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going to import all the different format
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just I'm going to import all of them you
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can import multiple files in one time
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upload down is processing let's wait a
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bit perfect the files are already here
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if you want to read it just click on it
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and then you can download and you can
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read in
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browser this is EOP format you can read
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in browser as
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well if it's a audio you also can play
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it in your
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browser so hope you can see the
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background music
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playing same thing on
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MP4 I do have one example here you can
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listen your browser and before but you
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won't be able to watch
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it for
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the E you also can change convert from
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different format EOP format to K EOP
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format you also can edit it the metadata
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so those are all basic things you can
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do at this moment we are still using
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public IP plus p number to access in
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this online web Library we could just
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created if you want to use your own
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domain then you have to register domain
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through
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EU or us stockage which loads free
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domain provider you can find out from
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here to get one and integrate with Cloud
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free just as I did here then after you
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integrated then you can create uh your
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own subdomain for your application so
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here is a step I'm going to show you how
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you can use your own domain to map to
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your caliber Das we l online library and
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then access to it so we're going to
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create the one
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called books and then we going to map to
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the ipv4 address I'm going to use MPN
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engine X proxy manager which I'm using
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widely in my videos if you watch the
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previous video you can see me to
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configure NG xlx manager for all kinds
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of application I created before so this
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is a similar one so the book this
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subdomain going to point
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into our
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mpm's public IP andx proxy manager
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public IP and uh we going to enable
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proxy status we going to save it so in
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that way we create the a recod
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books. 51. org L subdomain going to
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point in to our MPN and then MPN as a
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reverse proxy then going to send the
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traffic to our list
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9281 55.6
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883 so so we're going to configure
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that add a new proxy host and we're
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going to put the
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domain books. 51 stack.
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or and now we need to put the IP address
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and the report number
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883 you can enable all
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those features here it's
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ply
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accessible and we also want to enable SS
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we cannot request a new SSL
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certificate you can force SSL of course
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we can
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agree let's incit terms so service once
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all done save
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it perfect so all seems working now we
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can click this to see if it's
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working
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done now we are able to read the books
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in our library using our own
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domain so that's all for this video I
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hope you enjoyed it and get some useful
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