Many thanks Peter and Mattias, chmod 777 recursively the directory worked.
Out of interest, I need to put in the full path to my pdf2swf install directory
for it to work. E.g:
$output =
`/var/www/vhosts/example.com.au/httpdocs/pdf2swf/swftools-2008-08-21-2105/src/pdf2swf
degani.pdf -o degani.swf`;
?How do I make it so I only need to write : $output = `pdf2swf degani.pdf -o
degani.swf`;
Also, does anyone have any php code, or know where I can get some examples, to
calculate the number of pages in a pdf and then create an individual swf for
each page?
Do I just parse the output of `pdf2swf -I degani.pdf` and do a for loop based
on that?
Cheers,
Mark.
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-----Original Message-----
From: peter kostov [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 7:08 PM
To: Mark A. Lowe
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: [Swftools-common] running PDF2SWF via php on linux issue
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.pdf
I 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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multimedia director
multimedia resource australia
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+61 3 9281 3235
m:
+61 424257967
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MMR, Suite 409, 434 St. Kilda Road, Melbourne, 3004