Question

I have a PHP script that runs this command:

system("pdftohtml -i -noframes /home/myacc/pdfs/test.pdf");

When I run this from within public_html, an html file called test.html is successfully created and is placed in the public_html folder. However, when I run this from a cron job outside of public_html, no html file is created in any folder on the server.

Can anyone help me find where the resulting html file will be?

Thank you.

Answer 1

The problem lies in how cronjob work. Try to use the absolute location to pdftohtml.

Also, from your comment, you can’t change how pdftohtml write the output. However, there’s a trick to workaround this. That is by using custom shell script:

#!/bin/bash
cd /path/to/output/
/path/to/pdftohtml -i -noframes /home/myacc/pdfs/test.pdf