latex compilation via php's shell_exec

manpreet Best Answer 3 years ago

I want to compile a latex file via php. Therefore I use

shell_exec("/usr/bin/xelatex --output-directory=output/ --interaction batchmode doc.tex");

The problem I ran into is,that the www-data user on my apache webserver is not able to use some installed latex packages. I belive (but I'm not sure), it has something to do with a home dir. And my www-data has none (so do I think).

By the way, I use texlive on the server.

I hope you can help me, thanks for that!

Edit: Here's my code of the php compiling

This is XeTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-0.99998 (TeX Live 2017/Debian) (preloaded format=xelatex 2018.6.16)  18 JUN 2018 07:13
entering extended mode
 restricted \write18 enabled.
 %&-line parsing enabled.
**/var/www/html/tennessee/wp-content/plugins/daw_songbook/tmp/doc.tex
(/var/www/html/tennessee/wp-content/plugins/daw_songbook/tmp/doc.tex
LaTeX2e <2017-04-15>
Babel <3.10> and hyphenation patterns for 8 language(s) loaded.
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/book.cls
Document Class: book 2014/09/29 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/bk10.clo
File: bk10.clo 2014/09/29 v1.4h Standard LaTeX file (size option)
)
\c@part=\count79
\c@chapter=\count80
\c@section=\count81
\c@subsection=\count82
\c@subsubsection=\count83
\c@paragraph=\count84
\c@subparagraph=\count85
\c@figure=\count86
\c@table=\count87
\abovecaptionskip=\skip41
\belowcaptionskip=\skip42
\bibindent=\dimen102
)

! LaTeX Error: File `songs.sty' not found.

Type X to quit or  to proceed,
or enter new name. (Default extension: sty)

Enter file name: 
! Emergency stop.
 

l.5 \usepackage
               {amsmath}^^M
*** (cannot \read from terminal in nonstop modes)


Here is how much of TeX's memory you used:
 225 strings out of 494938
 2641 string characters out of 6176411
 55952 words of memory out of 5000000
 4170 multiletter control sequences out of 15000+600000
 3648 words of font info for 15 fonts, out of 8000000 for 9000
 14 hyphenation exceptions out of 8191
 22i,0n,19p,169b,40s stack positions out of 5000i,500n,10000p,200000b,80000s
No pages of output.