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    How to configure the libre office plugin correctly?
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    Posted by Capitalplanning  · 31-10-2017 - 00:49

    Hi there,

    I am following the instructions that are listed here:

    https://www.phpdocx.com/documentation/conversion-plugin/debugging-libreoffice

    For step 4 I am not completely sure what I need to do to get the server to call libre office working correctly to convert my docx files into pdf files. 

    If I do this:

    chown www-data:www-data /var/www/

    It works but research leads me to believe that this is a security risk and that www-data should never be the owner of /var/www/.

    I can also get the pdf conversion to work by modifyiing the phpdocx class TransformDocAdvLibreOffice(line 127) like so :

     passthru('export HOME=/tmp && ' . $libreOfficePath . ' --invisible "macro:///Standard.Module1.SaveToPdfA1Toc(' . realpath($docSource) . ')" ' . $outputDebug);

    Obviously I would prefer to not modify any of the phpdocx files. 

    Can you please help me to understand step 4 so that I can set the server up correctly.

    Posted by admin  · 31-10-2017 - 05:43

    Hello,

    You only need to set rw access to the .config folder of the home folder. For example if you are using /var/www as home folder, you need to set rw access to the user that runs the web server to /var/www/.config.

    About your command, you don't need to change phpdocx, you can set a custom home folder using the putenv function. For example to set it to /tmp:

    putenv("HOME=/tmp");

    Regards.