500 error with Windows client

[jgerster-wetec]

Thank you @uniuuu for your efforts - I have setup the server (Zotprime 2.0.8-beta) on WSL2 and built the Windows client according to the instructions in the README.

When running the Windows client and connecting with the default user (admin) and password (admin), I end up with below JavaScript Error in the Error Console:

@uniuuu Have you tested the Windows client so far? Any ideas what might be wrong with my setup?

[uniuuu]

Hi @jgerster-wetec

Thank you for your message and testing done. I have seen this error when client was registered with another dataserver and I tried to run it on newly created dataserver. If this is the case then clicking on "Unlink Account..." and then sign in again usually resolves this issue.

The way to troubleshoot is to run docker logs. Currently all basic debuggers are still enabled in this version so we can see comprehensive output. docker compose logs -f app-zotprime-dataserver Try to close and re-launch client and see if there any php warning/error generated. Please let me know what are errors/warnings in that case.

I have tested Linux client only up to now. The testing of windows client is in queue.

[jgerster-wetec]

Perfect, with your hints I managed to solve the problem.

The dataserver logs showed this output:

zotprime-app-zotprime-dataserver-1  | 172.18.0.1 - - [30/Apr/2023:17:58:03 +0200] "POST /keys HTTP/1.1" 500 17 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Zotero/6.0.27.SOURCE.2f0d41c0c"
zotprime-app-zotprime-dataserver-1  | [Sun Apr 30 17:58:33.854264 2023] [php:notice] [pid 32] [client 172.18.0.1:33824] Unknown database 'zotero_master'\n\nShard: 0\n\nQuery:\nSELECT value FROM settings WHERE name='schemaVersion'\n\nParams:\nArray\n(\n)\n\n\n\n\nShard: 0\n\nQuery:\nSELECT value FROM settings WHERE name='schemaVersion'\n\nParams:\n\n\n in /var/www/zotero/include/DB.inc.php:1308 (Version: 6.0.27.SOURCE.2f0d41c0c POST /keys) (332b9a6d5f)

This led me to https://github.com/FiligranHQ/zotprime/issues/13 - so the problem was actually not related to the Windows client but I just forgot to run the init.sh script as mentioned in the repo.

Thanks @uniuuu for your quick assistance - I will continue to test the Windows client and let you know if there is any issues.

[uniuuu]

Hi @jgerster-wetec Thank you for your update. Please note in case server has been completely reinstalled while client was re-linked with it's account to the new server then there might occur error [JavaScript Error: "_libraryStorageVersion cannot decrease" {file: "chrome://zotero/content/xpcom/data/library.js" In such case the solution is to unlink client account with removal of the data stored on computer See screenshot below:

In case your client has data already stored locally in your PC then it has to be exported/backup as after the above operation the client will be empty and all data lost.