Starting the container

CLI:

docker run --rm \
    --name calibre \
    -p 8081:8081 \
    -e PUID=1000 \
    -e PGID=1000 \
    -e UMASK=002 \
    -e TZ="Etc/UTC" \
    -v /<host_folder_config>:/config \
    -v /<host_folder_books>:/books \
    ta264/docker-calibre

Compose:

version: "3.7"

services:
  calibre:
    container_name: calibre
    image: ta264/docker-calibre
    ports:
      - "8081:8081"
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - UMASK=002
      - TZ=Etc/UTC
    volumes:
      - /<host_folder_config>:/config
      - /<host_folder_books>:/books

Alternative library location

If you want calibre to use a book library somewhere other than /books, set the BOOK_DIR environment variable to the directory you want to use.

Authentication

To enable authentication, set environment variables USER and PASSWORD. You can also set the environment variable AUTH_MODE to set the authentication mode. Set to "basic" if you are putting this server behind an SSL proxy. Otherwise, leave it unset, which will use "basic" if SSL is configured otherwise it will use "digest".

URL Prefix

A prefix to prepend to all URLs. Useful if you wish to run this server behind a reverse proxy. For example use, /calibre as the URL prefix. To enable, set the environment variable URL_PREFIX to the desired prefix.

Additional arguments to calibre-server

If the environment variable ARGS is set it will be passed to calibre-server on startup.