not pdf creator not spartacus running

[newuser]

Hi,

I'm running serendipity 0.8.2 and I'm having troubles with the blogpdf and spartacus.

Blogpdf installed from scratch, and when it tries to create a pdf, it says that it couldn't because the document doesn't start with %PDF- . Why is that possible? On my localhost , it worked perfectly, but on the real server it doesn't.

On the other side, the server where I installed serendipity has Safe Mode restrictions and for this reason I can't upgrade throught spartacus. I could be linked with the pdf problem?

Thanks.

[garvinhicking]

Very true, the SafeMode disables BlogPDF features as the plugin needs to write the .pdf files to the server.

Regards,
Garvin

[newuser]

So I can't use it with my host, no? It's a pity because one of the reasons I chosed s9y it was because it had included this option that I find useful.

I should investigate with my hosters what could we do. Thanks.

[garvinhicking]

Ah...hang on...there might be a simpler solution - the plugin tries to write to the "archives" directory. Can you check if your "archives" directory is owned by the right owner for your PHP safemode? It needs to belong to the same user with the same permissions like your "templates_c" directory is.

Regards,
Garvin

[newuser]

Ah...hang on...there might be a simpler solution - the plugin tries to write to the "archives" directory. Can you check if your "archives" directory is owned by the right owner for your PHP safemode? It needs to belong to the same user with the same permissions like your "templates_c" directory is.

Regards,
Garvin

How do I know it? You say that if the program can write on templates_c, then it must write on archives?

If you think that it's something very basic or that it has be solved before, could you tell me where I could find more info about this problem. thanks

[garvinhicking]

Yes, if the program can write to templates_c, it must be able to write to archives if you set the permissions exactly like templates_c are set. Did you check that in your FTP utility, or wherever you upload files from?

Regards,
Garvin

[newuser]

Thanks, garvinhicking, it has been solved.


First I changed to 0.8.3 but this is not important. The main thing it's that I have created the archives directory directly on the ftp, and when I have the blogpdf tested without any entry , it runned right!!!

So, thanks for your help.