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    <p>My OS is Windows XP, and I'm using IIS 5.1 and PHP 5.2.9. I'm trying to call a PHP script from my PHP page in order to convert an RTF doc to a PDF, using OpenOffice. The script works just fine when I call it directly from the command line, but I'm not having any success getting the very same script to work when launched from my PHP web page. </p> <p>When I call the script from my PHP page, the page hangs, eventually showing an error, and I've noted that I can see in the Task Manager where the soffice.bin and soffice.exe processes are running under my IIS user name. </p> <p>This is the error:</p> <pre><code>Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'com_exception' with message 'Failed to create COM object `com.sun.star.ServiceManager': Server execution failed ' in C:\WEB_ROOT\SoftwareContract\WordToPdf.php:14 Stack trace: #0 C:\WEB_ROOT\SoftwareContract\WordToPdf.php(14): com-&gt;com('com.sun.star.Se...') #1 C:\WEB_ROOT\SoftwareContract\Index.php(11): word2pdf('file:///C:/web_...', 'file:///C:/web_...') #2 {main} thrown in C:\WEB_ROOT\SoftwareContract\WordToPdf.php on line 14 </code></pre> <p>I've double-checked permissions for my IIS user in these areas:</p> <pre><code>C:\PHP C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 3 C:\Program Files\Java C:\WEB_ROOT ---- location for my php code </code></pre> <p>In each case, my IIS user has these permissions: Read and Execute, List Folder Contents, Read. And in each case there are no "denys" checked to offset the permissions. I also gave the IIS user write permissions for the Web_Root folder where the php code resides.</p> <p>This is the php which calls the conversion function, WordToPdf:</p> <pre><code>&lt;?php require_once('WordToPdf.php'); $output_dir = 'C:/web_root/softwarecontract/'; $doc_file = 'C:/web_root/softwarecontract/testdoc.rtf'; $pdf_file = 'output.pdf'; $output_file = $output_dir . $pdf_file; $doc_file = "file:///" . $doc_file; $output_file = "file:///" . $output_file; word2pdf($doc_file,$output_file); ?&gt; </code></pre> <p>And this is WordToPdf.php:</p> <pre><code>&lt;?php set_time_limit(0); function MakePropertyValue($name,$value,$osm) { $oStruct = $osm-&gt;Bridge_GetStruct("com.sun.star.beans.PropertyValue"); $oStruct-&gt;Name = $name; $oStruct-&gt;Value = $value; return $oStruct; } function word2pdf($doc_url, $output_url) { //Invoke the OpenOffice.org service manager $osm = new COM("com.sun.star.ServiceManager") or die ("Please be sure that OpenOffice.org is installed.\n"); //Set the application to remain hidden to avoid flashing the document onscreen $args = array(MakePropertyValue("Hidden",true,$osm)); //Launch the desktop $oDesktop = $osm-&gt;createInstance("com.sun.star.frame.Desktop"); //Load the .doc file, and pass in the "Hidden" property from above $oWriterDoc = $oDesktop-&gt;loadComponentFromURL($doc_url,"_blank", 0, $args); //Set up the arguments for the PDF output $export_args = array(MakePropertyValue("FilterName","writer_pdf_Export",$osm)); //Write out the PDF $oWriterDoc-&gt;storeToURL($output_url,$export_args); $oWriterDoc-&gt;close(true); } ?&gt; </code></pre> <p>Are there any problems with my permissions, or any additional areas where I need to check permissions for the IIS user? Does anyone have an idea why IIS failed to create the COM object, if not a permissions issue?</p> <p>Thanks!!</p>
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