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How to install wkhtmltopdf on a linux based (shared hosting) web server

I have tried in all ways to get wkhtmltopdf installed on our web server but unfortunately it is not getting installed. I cannot access user/bin folder as stated in a tutorial on installation.

On the server in public_html folder there is a sub folder _vti_bin, I copied the file wkhtmltopdf-i386 from wkhtmltopdf-0.9.1-static-i386, but I am not able to execute it.

How to install wkhtmltopdf on (shared hosting) web server and get it working?

Solution

  • I've managed to successfully install wkhtmltopdf-amd64 on my shared hosting account without root access.

    Here's what i did:

    Downloaded the relevant static binary v0.10.0 from here: http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/downloads/list

    EDIT: The above has moved to here

    via ssh on my shared host typed the following:

    $ wget {relavant url to binary from link above}
$ tar -xvf {filename of above wget'd file}

    you'll then have the binary on your host and will be able to run it regardless of if its in the /usr/bin/ folder or not. (or at least i was able to)

    To test:

    $ ./wkhtmltopdf-amd64 http://www.example.com example.pdf
    • Note remember that if you're in the folder in which the executable is, you should probably preface it with ./ just to be sure.

    Worked for me anyway