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

Anyway I think I make it work, please visit http://www.chandia.net/repositori and check if it’s the desired behaviour.

Different stuf, about Drush..
I wasn’t able to install it.
Youre instruccions are a bit different from the ones in the Readme of the module, anyway I tried both ways but I couldn’t see the module to enable it, is there some trick?, anyway these are the differences

readme: Untar the tarball into a folder ‘outside’ of your web site (/path/to/drush)
you: Install the Drush module by downloading the tarball to your ‘modules directory’ (sites/all/modules) and extract it

readme: ln -s /path/to/drush/drush /usr/bin/drush
you: ln -s /var/www/drupal/sites/all/modules/drush/drush.php /home/hopkinsju/bin/drush
(you link ‘drush.php’. readme links ‘drush’

Thanks for all of your support

Did you look at the issue queue?

It was that the right way to do it?

But in the Area (the square) where sould be the ‘File’ vocabulary to select I see nothing…

Did I do something wrong, or do I’m lacking some step?
Thanks for your previos help, was perfect.

Any help would be appreciate.

Thanks

I’m working through this on an Ubuntu 9.10 (beta) amd64. I just ran into the “creation of executable memory area failed: Permission denied” error. Your suggestion of “su â�� $WEBUSERâ��-c …â�� clears up the error message.

won’t work right unless you are running as a regular user and do:

sudo /etc/init.d/openoffice-service start

Try that and let me know. Depending on your needs, you might want to look at either editing the script to use a line like this:

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

I’m not sure though. Tomorrow night if I have time and can remember I think I’ll start a book on DDO and put what I’ve got into it. I’ll section it out by OS since there seems to be a variety of different issues depending on what everyone is running.

I can run :

/opt/openoffice.org3/program/soffice -headless -accept=”socket,host=127.0.0.1,port=8100;urp” -nofirststartwizard

as root, but when running the script, I get :

#/etc/init.d/openoffice-service start
Starting OpenOffice service: OpenOffice Started
[Java framework] Error in function NodeJava::writeSettings (elements.cxx).
javaldx failed!
creation of executable memory area failed: Permission denied
creation of executable memory area failed: Permission denied
creation of executable memory area failed: Permission denied
creation of executable memory area failed: Permission denied
creation of executable memory area failed: Permission denied
creation of executable memory area failed: Permission denied
creation of executable memory area failed: Permission denied

the java I have installed is java-gcj-compat, the server is debian etch

@Christophe Perhaps try the above – basically just reinstalling the modules (I’d use devel myself). Also, I cannot stress this enough: look at the output of phpinfo(). You need to look at the value of $TMPDIR. It may be that root’s (or another users) environment variables are being carried over to apache. Look at your phpinfo() and let me know what $TMPDIR is.