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Hello,

As it's working using PHP CLI mode, we recommend you to get the correct HOME path of Apache user:

<?php
echo getenv("HOME");

or set a custom HOME path, for example to /var/www and create the .config folder:

$ mkdir /var/www/.config

<?php
putenv("HOME=/var/www");

And set 777 access to the .config folder and all its subdirectories

$ chmod 777 -r /var/www/.config

And also check your server logs to find any issue when doing the conversion or some PHP or Apache configuration is blocking the conversion.

On https://www.phpdocx.com/documentation/conversion-plugin/debugging-libreoffice and https://www.phpdocx.com/documentation/conversion-plugin/common-problems-and-possible-errors you can read about common issues when working with the conversion plugin.

Regards.

I did everything as you suggested, and still got same error:

In the following image you can see .config file was created with the proper permission in the document root folder, in this case, for Laravel + Elastic Beanstalk, that folder is: /var/app/current/public

https://s3.amazonaws.com/swyftfilings-resources/Screen+Shot+2018-11-04+at+10.45.03+AM.png

Hello,

Sorry, but we don't know what could be wrong in the server setup. As it's working using the PHP CLI mode, some Apache or PHP configuration or some missing rw access may be blocking the conversion.

We recommend you to enable the debug option (https://www.phpdocx.com/api-documentation/format-conversion/convert-Word-docx-into-pdf-with-PHP) and check your server logs to find the source of the problem. Also, check if some external tool such as SELinux or similar is enabled.

Regards.

This are my system variables got after running check.php

OK PHP version is 7.2.5
OK Zip support is enabled.
OK DOM support is enabled.
OK XML support is enabled.
OK Tidy support is enabled.
OK mbstring is enabled.


PHP_VERSION: 7.2.5
PHP_OS: Linux
PHP_UNAME: Linux ip-172-31-43-228 4.14.62-65.117.amzn1.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Aug 10 20:03:52 UTC 2018 x86_64
SERVER_NAME: 
SERVER_SOFTWARE: 
SERVER_ADDR: 
SERVER_PROTOCOL: 
HTTP_HOST: 
HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR: 
PHP_SELF: check.php
ZipArchive: 1
DomDocument: 1
SimpleXMLElement: 1
Tidy: 1
mbstring: 1

Config file: 
[settings]
temp_path = "/var/app/current/storage/app/public"

encode_to_UTF8 = "false"

language = "en-US"

paper_size = "A4"

[license]

code = "XXXXXXXXXXXXX"
value = ""

[transform]

method = "libreoffice"
path = "/opt/libreoffice6.1/program/soffice"

I still need your help to solve it, since I can convert docx to pdf from CLI already, and same in localhost.

Hello,

We are trying to help you, and as it's working with PHP CLI, we are sure the problem must come from a PHP or Apache configuration or some program such as SELinux that is blocking PHP to call the conversion plugin. Did you enable the debug option and check your server logs?

Please send to contact[at]phpdocx.com the information to connect to your server through SSH, the path where phpdocx is installed and an URL to test it using a web browser and we'll check it.

Regards.

Hello,

After checking the server, the problem was the detailed on our first reply. To solve it, we just set a custom HOME folder

putenv("HOME=/var/www");

And set 777 access to the .config folder and all its subdirectories

$ chmod 777 -r /var/www/.config

Regards.