swftools http://www.swftools.org/download.html
asoundconf http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/asoundconf

sudo pecl install Fileinfo
php -m | grep fileinfo
fileinfo
fileinfo comes installed by default now!!!

openoffice-headless, I’ve experiencing same problems like some of the people posting here, but I have found this start scrip, that works without problem, The only issue is that I don’t know how to make the apache user be the one who starts it.

    #!/bin/bash
    # openoffice.org headless server script
    #
    # chkconfig: 2345 80 30
    # description: headless openoffice server script
    # processname: openoffice
    #
    # Author: Vic Vijayakumar
    # Modified by Federico Ch. Tomasczik
    #
    OOo_HOME=/usr/bin
    SOFFICE_PATH=$OOo_HOME/soffice
    PIDFILE=/var/run/openoffice-server.pid

    set -e

    case "$1" in
    start)
    if [ -f $PIDFILE ]; then
    echo "OpenOffice headless server has already started."
    sleep 5
    exit
    fi
    echo "Starting OpenOffice headless server"
    $SOFFICE_PATH -headless -nologo -nofirststartwizard -accept="socket,host=127.0.0.1,port=8100;urp" & > /dev/null 2>&1
    touch $PIDFILE
    ;;
    stop)
    if [ -f $PIDFILE ]; then
    echo "Stopping OpenOffice headless server."
    killall -9 soffice && killall -9 soffice.bin
    rm -f $PIDFILE
    exit
    fi
    echo "Openoffice headless server is not running."
    exit
    ;;
    *)
    echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop}"
    exit 1
    esac
    exit 0

Well, I will continue anyway with the next stuffs, but if some of you know how to make apache user start the headless-openoffice, please shere it.

Thanks.

[Java framework] Error in function createSettingsDocument (elements.cxx).
javaldx failed!

but slightly different because I’m using libreoffice:

I/O error : Permission denied
I/O error : Permission denied
[Java framework] Error in function NodeJava::writeSettings (elements.cxx).
javaldx failed!

One solution (which I haven’t tested for this particular command but have used successfully for similar commands), is to prefix the command with “HOME=/tmp”, eg:

HOME=/tmp /usr/bin/soffice -headless -accept=”socket,host=127.0.0.1,port=8100;urp” -nofirststartwizard &

This will set the home directory to /tmp for the command, which the web user should have write access to.

Another hot tip: google for the “libreoffice -convert-to” option for a simpler alternative to running (open|libre)office as a service for document conversion.

I will note that this module is also way old. http://drupal.org/project/webdav

Open Office installs into a different place now with the package. (see update below).

I have the same error:
[Java framework] Error in function createSettingsDocument (elements.cxx).
javaldx failed!

I have no user folder for www-data to add .openoffice.org into it.
I can start OO with the command line of another user and with root.
I tried creating a user folder www-data with the permissions of www-data and a folder .openoffice.org with the same www-data permissions.
Still no go for me.

#!/bin/bash
#
# description: Open Office Service
#

export WEBUSER=www-data
export PATH=$PATH
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8

start() {
echo -n “Starting OpenOffice service: “
sudo -u $WEBUSER /usr/bin/soffice -headless -accept=”socket,host=127.0.0.1,port=8100;urp” -nofirststartwizard &
echo “OpenOffice Started”

This issue you can fix by creating folder .openoffice.org in yur user home directory (user who runs openoffice).

thanks for the walkthrough, the fileframework integration is indeed tricky (i lost my taxonomy). however, I have a separate question; when starting up the webservice I am getting an error:

[Java framework] Error in function createSettingsDocument (elements.cxx).
javaldx failed!

this seems to be a headless run error. any ideas?

thanks
dave

I think about trying to install Ooo 3.2, just uninstall – and resinstall appropriately? Any impact on the script?

And I am not done here and have not everything running yet but it might also explain why the process was trying to write to /root/tmp/, and it solved the openoffice start problem.

and on a side note ….
sudo pear install HTTP_WebDAV_Server
works just as well and you don’t have to worry about the version(not that it is maintained)

swftool for some reason cannot be installed with apt-get today??? the package does exist on the ubuntu website but apt-get and aptitude do not find it.

And the last one for now JODConverter is now a package so you can install it trough apt-get.
Thnx for the writeup and keeping up with the comments ;)

So are you saying that you edited the script to read

su – $WEBUSER -c “/opt/openoffice.org3/program/soffice -headless -accept=”socket,host=127.0.0.1,port=8100;urp” -nofirststartwizard &”

p.s. I used this tool to convert that last string into html entities. I don’t know why my comments aren’t UTF-8, but it’s freaking annoying…

Why don’t you post the script you have, the command (and user) you are using to invoke the script, and any output?

The anser to your last question about it being accessed by a web app really just requires that OOo and JODconverter be started as the apache user. Running JODConverter and OOo as any user will “work”, but if your intent is for Drupal to have access to the files after they are created, they will need to be owned by the apache user.

thank you for this great explanation.
I haven’t started the drupal integration, I’ve been stuck trying to get openoffice to run as a headless service…

My problem is related to Daves (from May 2009)

JODconverter and OOo3.2 work great together, as long as I start “soffice” manually:

sudo /opt/openoffice.org3/program/soffice -headless -accept=â��socket,host=127.0.0.1,port=8100;urpâ�� -nofirststartwizard &

and run JODconverter from commandline.

so I created a script per your instructions:

and ran the script from
sudo /etc/init.d/soffice-service start

but get the following error:
creation of executable memory area failed: Permission denied

I tried the suggestion you made in reply to Dave.
but got a number of other errors.

can you offer any more insight into how to run openoffice as a service to be accessed by a web app?
how to structure the permissions? maybe..
I’ve really been all over the place trying to solve this, or I wouldn’t bother you.
but based on your post and your comments, I’m hoping you have a quick solutions..

thanks
drew

I’m running Ubuntu Hardy LTS
oo3.2