createPDF

By Toledoh - August 30, 2010

Hi Guys.

The createPDF seems to be working... mostly.

The test files are creating the PDF, however for everything other than the "url_as..." the displayed result is a PDF of my 404 error page.

Any ideas?
Cheers,

Tim (toledoh.com.au)

Re: [Toledoh] createPDF

By Jason - August 31, 2010

Hi Tim,

What is the url that you're passing to the plugin? Check to make sure that's correct first.

Hope this helps.
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Re: [Jason] createPDF

By Toledoh - August 31, 2010

Attachments:

html_as_inline.php 1K

Re: [Toledoh] createPDF

By Jason - August 31, 2010

Hi Tim,


Could you also attach url_as_inline.php so I can see how they're different?

You can also try adding this code to the very top of html_as_inline.php:

<?php require_once "../../../lib/viewer_functions.php"; ?>

Give that a try.
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Re: [Jason] createPDF

By Toledoh - August 31, 2010

Hi Jason.

I had deleted that line just to see if that was the issue...

Attached are the url versions.
Cheers,

Tim (toledoh.com.au)

Re: [Toledoh] createPDF

By Toledoh - August 31, 2010

BTW: have just emailed ftp etc in case you need it.
Cheers,

Tim (toledoh.com.au)

Re: [Jason] createPDF

By Chris - September 1, 2010 - edited: September 1, 2010

Hi Tim,

Wow, this was a tricky one! :)

Your server is configured in a funny way, which is preventing the Create PDF plugin from functioning. When a script on your server makes a web request on http://www.murraysbrewingco.com.au/, it ends up going someplace completely different!

When you ask the internet what the IP address of www.murraysbrewingco.com.au is, you'll be told it's [url http://www.iptools.com/dnstools.php?tool=hostresolve&user_data=www.murraysbrewingco.com.au&submit=Go]116.213.5.16[/url]. However, when you ask the web server running on www.murraysbrewingco.com.au what the IP address of www.murraysbrewingco.com.au is, you'll be told it's [url http://www.murraysbrewingco.com.au/ip_test.php]203.30.164.196[/url]!

I've uploaded a simple script to show the problem:

[url http://www.murraysbrewingco.com.au/web_get_test.php]http://www.murraysbrewingco.com.au/web_get_test.php[/url]

The script attempts to download http://www.murraysbrewingco.com.au/web_get_test_target.php, which is a file that simply reads "IT WORKS". On your server, the test shows nothing.

(Another clue is that the PDF generated by the [url http://www.murraysbrewingco.com.au/cmsAdmin/plugins/createPDF/tests/html_as_inline.php]html_as_inline test[/url] is a different error page ("Woops!") than the [url http://www.murraysbrewingco.com.au/x]error page[/url] you get from 404s on www.murraysbrewingco.com.au ("Error occurred") from a web browser.)

Please ask your web host to fix your server so that it can make web requests of itself. If you show them the web_get_test.php script above, they should be able to figure it out.

I hope this helps! Please let me know if you have any questions.
All the best,
Chris

Re: [chris] createPDF

By Toledoh - September 2, 2010

Thanks guys. I've passed your comments onto my host - and will let you know how it goes!
Cheers,

Tim (toledoh.com.au)

Re: [Toledoh] createPDF

By Toledoh - September 6, 2010

Thanks for your direction guys... there was some kind of conflict with the host. I had moved from one to another and the old one was still half set up some how.

Works a treat now.
Cheers,

Tim (toledoh.com.au)