BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ Need help installing custom .bst file

[mgmillani]

I'm trying to create my own .bst file as I couldn't find any package that generates the bibliography in the format that I need. So here is what I did so far:

• Generated the file gesellschaft.bst using latex makebst
• Put this file on ~/.texmf-var/bibtex/bst
• Copied /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/bibtex/bst/base/plain.bst to ~/.texmf-var/bibtex/bst/plaincopy.bst

If I try to compile the following file

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{natbib}
%\usepackage{hyperref}

\title{Title}
\author{Myself}

\begin{document}
\maketitle

\section{Introduction}
 \cite{Suber2004}

\bibliographystyle{gesellschaft}
\bibliography{ref}
\end{document}

with ref.bib being:

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@online{Suber2004,
 author = {Suber, Peter},
 title = {Open Access Overview},
 month = aug,
 year = {2013},
 url = {\url{http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm}},
  note = {[accessed 15 December 2013]}
}

everything works ok. If I uncomment the 6th line (that is, use hyperref package), however, it doesn't work, with no .pdf produced. The last lines of the log file are (the name of the .tex file is mid.tex):

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(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/hobsub-generic.sty
Package: hobsub-generic 2012/05/28 v1.13 Bundle oberdiek, subset generic (HO)
Package: hobsub 2012/05/28 v1.13 Construct package bundles (HO)
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Package ifluatex Info: LuaTeX not detected.
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Package ifvtex Info: VTeX not detected.
Package: intcalc 2007/09/27 v1.1 Expandable calculations with integers (HO)
Package: ifpdf 2011/01/30 v2.3 Provides the ifpdf switch (HO)
Package ifpdf Info: pdfTeX in PDF mode is detected.
Package: etexcmds 2011/02/16 v1.5 Avoid name clashes with e-TeX commands (HO)
Package etexcmds Info: Could not find \expanded.
(etexcmds)             That can mean that you are not using pdfTeX 1.50 or
(etexcmds)             that some package has redefined \expanded.
(etexcmds)             In the latter case, load this package earlier.
Package: kvsetkeys 2012/04/25 v1.16 Key value parser (HO)
Package: kvdefinekeys 2011/04/07 v1.3 Define keys (HO)
Package: pdftexcmds 2011/11/29 v0.20 Utility functions of pdfTeX for LuaTeX (HO
)
Package pdftexcmds Info: LuaTeX not detected.
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Package pdftexcmds Info: \pdfdraftmode found.
Package: pdfescape 2011/11/25 v1.13 Implements pdfTeX's escape features (HO)
Package: bigintcalc 2012/04/08 v1.3 Expandable calculations on big integers (HO
)
Package: bitset 2011/01/30 v1.1 Handle bit-vector datatype (HO)
Package: uniquecounter 2011/01/30 v1.2 Provide unlimited unique counter (HO)
)
Package hobsub Info: Skipping package `hobsub' (already loaded).
Package: letltxmacro 2010/09/02 v1.4 Let assignment for LaTeX macros (HO)
Package: hopatch 2012/05/28 v1.2 Wrapper for package hooks (HO)
Package: xcolor-patch 2011/01/30 xcolor patch
Package: atveryend 2011/06/30 v1.8 Hooks at the very end of document (HO)
Package atveryend Info: \enddocument detected (standard20110627).
Package: atbegshi 2011/10/05 v1.16 At begin shipout hook (HO)
Package: refcount 2011/10/16 v3.4 Data extraction from label references (HO)
Package: hycolor 2011/01/30 v1.7 Color options for hyperref/bookmark (HO)
)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/keyval.sty
Package: keyval 1999/03/16 v1.13 key=value parser (DPC)
\KV@toks@=\toks16
)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/ifxetex/ifxetex.sty
Package: ifxetex 2010/09/12 v0.6 Provides ifxetex conditional
)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/oberdiek/kvoptions.sty
Package: kvoptions 2011/06/30 v3.11 Key value format for package options (HO)
)
\@linkdim=\dimen104
\Hy@linkcounter=\count89
\Hy@pagecounter=\count90

(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/hyperref/pd1enc.def
File: pd1enc.def 2012/05/13 v6.82q Hyperref: PDFDocEncoding definition (HO)
Now handling font encoding PD1 ...
... no UTF-8 mapping file for font encoding PD1
)
\Hy@SavedSpaceFactor=\count91

(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/latexconfig/hyperref.cfg
File: hyperref.cfg 2002/06/06 v1.2 hyperref configuration of TeXLive
)
Package hyperref Info: Hyper figures OFF on input line 4062.
Package hyperref Info: Link nesting OFF on input line 4067.
Package hyperref Info: Hyper index ON on input line 4070.
Package hyperref Info: Plain pages OFF on input line 4077.
Package hyperref Info: Backreferencing OFF on input line 4082.
Package hyperref Info: Implicit mode ON; LaTeX internals redefined.
Package hyperref Info: Bookmarks ON on input line 4300.
\c@Hy@tempcnt=\count92

(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/url/url.sty
\Urlmuskip=\muskip10
Package: url 2006/04/12  ver 3.3  Verb mode for urls, etc.
)
LaTeX Info: Redefining \url on input line 4653.
\Fld@menulength=\count93
\Field@Width=\dimen105
\Fld@charsize=\dimen106
Package hyperref Info: Hyper figures OFF on input line 5773.
Package hyperref Info: Link nesting OFF on input line 5778.
Package hyperref Info: Hyper index ON on input line 5781.
Package hyperref Info: backreferencing OFF on input line 5788.
Package hyperref Info: Link coloring OFF on input line 5793.
Package hyperref Info: Link coloring with OCG OFF on input line 5798.
Package hyperref Info: PDF/A mode OFF on input line 5803.
LaTeX Info: Redefining \ref on input line 5843.
LaTeX Info: Redefining \pageref on input line 5847.
\Hy@abspage=\count94
\c@Item=\count95
\c@Hfootnote=\count96
)

Package hyperref Message: Driver (autodetected): hpdftex.

(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/hyperref/hpdftex.def
File: hpdftex.def 2012/05/13 v6.82q Hyperref driver for pdfTeX
\Fld@listcount=\count97
\c@bookmark@seq@number=\count98

(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/oberdiek/rerunfilecheck.sty
Package: rerunfilecheck 2011/04/15 v1.7 Rerun checks for auxiliary files (HO)
Package uniquecounter Info: New unique counter `rerunfilecheck' on input line 2
82.
)
\Hy@SectionHShift=\skip45
)
(./mid.aux)
\openout1 = `mid.aux'.

LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for OML/cmm/m/it on input line 11.
LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 11.
LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for T1/cmr/m/n on input line 11.
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LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for U/cmr/m/n on input line 11.
LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 11.
LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for PD1/pdf/m/n on input line 11.
LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 11.
\AtBeginShipoutBox=\box26
Package hyperref Info: Link coloring OFF on input line 11.
 (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/hyperref/nameref.sty
Package: nameref 2010/04/30 v2.40 Cross-referencing by name of section

(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/gettitlestring.sty
Package: gettitlestring 2010/12/03 v1.4 Cleanup title references (HO)
)
\c@section@level=\count99
)
LaTeX Info: Redefining \ref on input line 11.
LaTeX Info: Redefining \pageref on input line 11.
LaTeX Info: Redefining \nameref on input line 11.

(./mid.out) (./mid.out)
\@outlinefile=\write3
\openout3 = `mid.out'.

LaTeX Font Info:    External font `cmex10' loaded for size
(Font)              <12> on input line 13.
LaTeX Font Info:    External font `cmex10' loaded for size
(Font)              <8> on input line 13.
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(Font)              <6> on input line 13.
 (./mid.bbl
! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [input stack size=5000].
\@makeother #1->\catcode `#1
                            12\relax 
l.11 ...acy.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm}}
                                                  .
If you really absolutely need more capacity,
you can ask a wizard to enlarge me.

 
Here is how much of TeX's memory you used:
 5116 strings out of 493485
 72165 string characters out of 3143525
 830661 words of memory out of 3000000
 8412 multiletter control sequences out of 15000+200000
 10900 words of font info for 29 fonts, out of 3000000 for 9000
 957 hyphenation exceptions out of 8191
 5000i,6n,9987p,179b,287s stack positions out of 5000i,500n,10000p,200000b,50000s
!  ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!

which doesn't say anything to me. The output of latexmk also doesn't help me at all.

If I use plaincopy as the style, the compilation stops with the following message:

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! Package natbib Error: Bibliography not compatible with author-year citations.

(natbib)                Press <return> to continue in numerical citation style.


See the natbib package documentation for explanation.
Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
 ...                                              
                                                  
l.21 ...mand\NAT@force@numbers{}\NAT@force@numbers

On the other hand, if I use plain style, it works, which means I probably installed my .bst files wrongly.

What did I do wrong? My files are found without any problems, so they are in the correct folder, but they don't behave like they should (why isn't plaincopy the same thing as plain?).


EDIT (January 7, 2014):
Placing the .bst file on the same folder as the .tex file works fine, but I don't want that.