Upgrade StorageSelf-hosted Zotero, how to access with Zotero 7 windows client?
Hi,
I am running a self-hosted zotero server since last year, in a docker on ubuntu. I am accessing it with Zotero 6 (6.0.36) and syncing works fine. Note that this is about data syncing the literature metadata and NOT about file/attachment syncing!
To redirect the client to my own server, I had to edit the config.js within the zotero.jar, and changed parameters such as BASE_URI, API_URL and STREAMING_URL.
(for background see e.g. https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/114399/)
How can I make these edits for the Zotero 7 client ?
I already went the chat-GPT route, which made all sorts of suggestions:
- edit in a prefs.js (which I did not find)
- find the zotero.sqlite DB in the local user directory and make the changes in the tables named "prefs" or "settings" (a table prefs does not exist, and the settings table does not have fields for URLs...)
- finally, chat-GPT told me that with the Zotero 7 client, the original API URL api.zotero.org is hard-coded into the program exe and not changeable in any sort of configuration file... It was suggested that I compile the client myself ... (which is beyond me).
I don't, know if the last bit is true.... hope not.
Any thoughts and suggestions?
Thanks
Kevin
I am running a self-hosted zotero server since last year, in a docker on ubuntu. I am accessing it with Zotero 6 (6.0.36) and syncing works fine. Note that this is about data syncing the literature metadata and NOT about file/attachment syncing!
To redirect the client to my own server, I had to edit the config.js within the zotero.jar, and changed parameters such as BASE_URI, API_URL and STREAMING_URL.
(for background see e.g. https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/114399/)
How can I make these edits for the Zotero 7 client ?
I already went the chat-GPT route, which made all sorts of suggestions:
- edit in a prefs.js (which I did not find)
- find the zotero.sqlite DB in the local user directory and make the changes in the tables named "prefs" or "settings" (a table prefs does not exist, and the settings table does not have fields for URLs...)
- finally, chat-GPT told me that with the Zotero 7 client, the original API URL api.zotero.org is hard-coded into the program exe and not changeable in any sort of configuration file... It was suggested that I compile the client myself ... (which is beyond me).
I don't, know if the last bit is true.... hope not.
Any thoughts and suggestions?
Thanks
Kevin