Running libreoffice from php exec()

Question

I have installed libreoffice headless on a freebsd-server with apache in order to convert documents programmatically (e.g. odt->pdf). It works from the command line! But my

Answer 1

This works for me.

Make sure you have installed java RE, for example in ubuntu:

apt-get install default-jre

First, find the location of your libreoffice

$ which libreoffice
/usr/bin/libreoffice

Include the folder location in the PATH, and also set the HOME var by adding these lines:

putenv('PATH=/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin');
putenv('HOME=/tmp'); 
system("libreoffice .....