Problems getting Tidy to work

homo_sapiens - November 23, 2007 - 14:34
Project:Import HTML
Version:5.x-1.2
Component:Miscellaneous
Category:support request
Priority:normal
Assigned:Unassigned
Status:active
Description

Hi,

after having installed Tidy on the Linux Web-Server, the "Import HTML Settings"-Page tells me:

HTMLTidy executable is not available. Found 'tidy' binary, but it didn't run right. /usr/local/bin/tidy -v failed to respond correctly

Running Tidy on the Server I get the correct message:

HTML Tidy release date: 4th August 2000
See http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett for details

Tidy should be accessible form all processes since it has set the following bits:

-rwxr-xr-x

Tidy is exactly located in the directory /usr/local/bin !

Does "Import HTML" expect to get another response form Tidy when executing tidy -v?

What else can be wrong?

Thanks in advance!

Peter

#1

dman - November 23, 2007 - 15:31

Looking at the line in the test file it should respond OK if the executable returns anything at all.

It does run a system call (obviously) and some hosts have that locked down via safe_mode.
If that's the case, you may be able to run it by copying the binary into the expected bin directory under the module dir, where safe_mode_exec_dir may trust it. Check your phpinfo to see if it looks like anything is restricted.

Note, tidy dated 2000 looks pretty old!

 
 

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