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wkhtmltopdf (pdfkit) Could not connect to any X display

I am trying to use wkhtmltopdf with Django ,nginx,uwsgi it works perfectly on development env running using manage.py runserver but when serving with nginx ans uwsgi i get this error:

wkhtmltopdf exited with non-zero code 1. error:
QStandardPaths: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set, defaulting to '/tmp/runtime-isp'
qt.qpa.screen: QXcbConnection: Could not connect to display 
Could not connect to any X display.

Exception Location:     /home/isp/Env/isp/lib/python3.6/site-package/pdfkit/pdfkit.py in to_pdf, line 159

the command :

wkhtmltopdf http://www.google.com output.pdf

works perfectly on terminal and i used this guid to deploy the Django app https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-serve-django-applications-with-uwsgi-and-nginx-on-ubuntu-16-04#setting-up-the-uwsgi-application-server

i think it is related to virtualenv , i tried using this wrapper https://github.com/JazzCore/python-pdfkit/wiki/Using-wkhtmltopdf-without-X-server

but still having the same error

mycode : 

import pdfkit
    pdfkit.from_file("./invoices/invoice"+str(booking_id)+"-"+str(invoice_id)+".html", "invoices/invoice_initial"+str(booking_id)+"-"+str(invoice_id)+".pdf")
Solution

  • Solution

    Instead of using 

    apt-get install wkhtmltopdf

    I downloaded the latest version from the releases page and everything works now.