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From: | peter kostov |
Subject: | Re: [Swftools-common] running PDF2SWF via php on linux issue |
Date: | Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:07:52 +0300 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080621) |
Mark A. Lowe wrote:
Hey guys,I've been using PDF2SWF via my command line in Windows for a while now. For the last week or so, I've been trying to get it to work via a php script on my Linux box.It's installed fine, and when I run it via ssh (under the 'root' user) it works fine. I'm using this simple command, without any extras obviously : pdf2swf myPDF.pdfI put this same command in a PHP file but was getting no result - no .swf file nor response. I've now changed it to give the full location of the pdf2swf command, as in:<?php $output = `/var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com.au/httpdocs/pdf2swf/swftools-2008-08-21-2105/s rc/pdf2swf myPDF.pdf -o myPDF.swf`; echo "Output pdf2swf: <pre>$output</pre>"; ?>This is now giving me the following output:NOTICE processing PDF page 1 (450x600:0:0) (move:0:0) NOTICE Writing SWF file degani.swf FATAL Could not create "degani.swf".So it is running fine, but it just can't write out the .swf file.I've chmod 777 my php file.
Hi Mark,you shouldn't chmod your php file (it should be 755), but instead you should chmod recursively 777 the directory where the script will write the output file. Or a better solution is to run PHP as CGI script, not as Apache module in which case PHP will run on behalf of your user, not the Apache server and will have access to all of your files without need to chmod them at all. And if you do not want troubles, please do not do anything (!) as root except the system administration (eg. installing/uninstalling applications system wide, configuring services, adding/removing users, etc.)
I've tried to set up a sudoers file like so : apache rushmore = NOPASSWD: /var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com.au/httpdocs/pdf2swf/swftools-2008-08-21-2105/sr c/pdf2swf and use "sudo -u apache /var./pdf2swf/. etc" but I get no output.
You don't need sudo/sudoers for this at all.
So the root user can run it, but my webserver (apache) can't. Do I need to change the owner/group of the install files?
No.
Do I need to use a sudo command and run it as root?
No.
Any help with this would be massively appreciated - I'm so close!Cheers,Mark.
Greetings, Peter
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