[tex-live] Help: latex can't running under apache

[Zdenek Wagner]

2009/3/23 liujunxing <liujunxing at skyground.com.cn>:
> Hi, everyone!
>
> I send this help to tex-live at tug.org because I can't find a forum or other
> communication method for post my question. If my mail is not suitable for
> tex-live at tug.org mailing-list, I apologize for send the mail unadvisedly.
>
Such bugs usually mean that latex.fmt was created with different
values of memory variables. Probably when running as root it might
have found different texmf.cnf than when running as apache. It might
be difficult to trace the source. First I would add a "textlive"
group, made the TL installation owned by that group an made at least
the texmf-var tree writable by that group. Afterwards I would make
"apache" a member of this group. Then I would delete latex.fmt and
latex.log, make some fake web page that processes any document by
latex and ran it. Since latex.fmt will not be found, it will be
created by the "apache" user. Hope this helps.

> Our site use MediaWiki as wiki system, MediaWiki math extension using
> latex to generate math formula, the process describe simplify as:
> user edit math formula, as example: \frac{1}{3}
> MediaWiki math extension wrap the formula to a tex file.
>    call to latex translate tex to dvi file.
> call to dvipng translate dvi to png, then display on webpage.
>
> When I install texlive2008, it's all ok running latex program under root
> account,
> but when running latex under apache (user is www-data), the error message is
> :
> ---! /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-var/web2c/pdftex/latex.fmt doesn't match pdftex.pool
> (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
>
> Another solution is using xelatex instead of latex, but the question is
> xelatex
> translate tex file to xdvi format, which I don't know how to translate xdvi
> file to png,
> please also help for how to translate xdvi file to png.
>
> My english is poor, , so I don't know how to say more for my
> acknowledgement !
>
>
> 2009-03-23
> ________________________________
> liujunxing from China



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