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Betsy Gamrat	Friday 29 December 2006 7:42:48 pm Hi, I followed the directions on this page: http://ez.no/ezpublish/documentation/configuration/optimization/speeding_up_acrobat_pdf_document_indexing_ and was able to index PDFs, with no trouble. I wanted to install ezpdftotext and pdftotext on the server in /usr/local/bin, so I could access them from all the sites on the server, but I can't get it to work. I checked the server error logs, and the eZ logs, and they weren't helpful. I ran the commands with just straight PHP, using passthru, and everything was okay. Any ideas? Thank you in advance, Betsy
kracker (the)	Friday 29 December 2006 11:37:25 pm Betsy, That documentation entry looks rather dated despite the fresh notes (comments). Have you read this article? <i>http://ez.no/layout/set/printarticle/community/articles/indexing_multiple_binary_file_types</i> I did and was then sent down this path. <i>http://ez.no/community/forum/developer/binary_file_search_index_creation_debugging_3_7_4 http://ezpedia.org/wiki/en/ez/references http://ezpedia.org/wiki/en/ez/solution_building_php_cli_for_ez_publish_command_line_scripts http://ezpedia.org/wiki/en/ez/debugging http://ezpedia.org/wiki/en/ez/tips_for_working_with_ez_publish_cli_scripts </i> eZ search is simple to setup, yet one can run into php references problems (segfaults) without a custom patched php-cli binary. <i>I got by with a little help from my friends.</i> Cheers, <i>//kracker eminem : don,t call me' marshall</i> Member since: 2001.07.13 \|\| http://ezpedia.se7enx.com/
Betsy Gamrat	Saturday 30 December 2006 7:03:24 am Kracker, Thank you, I have alot of information to review. My real question is: why will <b>ezpdftotext</b> run out of the site's local directory, but not out of <i>/usr/local/bin</i>. The indexing works great as described on the rather dated post - except I can't make it available to the rest of the server. Since I got <b>ezpdftotext</b> to run under PHP, and execute the scripts in all the locations, I was wondering if eZ had some security settings that prevented execution of scripts outside the local directory. I did check the server settings, and since the code ran okay outside of eZ, I am assuming the settings are alright. My goal is to construct a robust infrastructure that will allow extremely efficient deployment of eZ sites. :)
Paul Borgermans	Saturday 30 December 2006 7:24:08 am Hi Betsy I do exactly this (putting it in /usr/local/bin to share among different web sites) so it really looks like a permission (or maybe a path problem). I would add some hard coded statements and increase the log level (error_reporting in php.ini) if there is not enough in the debug output. Good luck identifying the problem Paul eZ Publish, eZ Find, Solr expert consulting and training http://twitter.com/paulborgermans
Betsy Gamrat	Saturday 30 December 2006 11:04:11 am Hi, I tried one more time, before calling for help ... and it worked. <b>:)</b> After all is said and done, these are the key components: A <b>custom class</b> (I called mine 'File - Indexed') that has a file attribute and sets the 'Is Searchable' flag to true for that attribute. <b>/usr/local/bin</b> has these files -rwxr-xr-x 3 root root 62 Dec 30 12:51 <b>ezpdftotext</b> -rwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1135987 Dec 24 08:34 <b>pdftotext</b> <b>ezpdftotext</b> #!/bin/sh #ezpdftotext script <b>/usr/local/bin/pdftotext</b> $1 - <b>override/binaryfile.ini.append.php</b> <?php /* #?ini charset="utf8"? [PDFHandlerSettings] TextExtractionTool=<b>/usr/local/bin/ezpdftotext</b> */ ?> I think the path in the ini file is probably unnecessary, because /usr/local/bin is in the path anyway. I uploaded a PDF file, and it worked. Thanks for the support - it really helped. Betsy