Re: Launch an X Windows app from Apache (PHP or Perl)
you should run your x11 commands as a user of you, not www-data. www-data
cannot connect to x11 server, or you will dig into xhost.
On Thursday 15 December 2005 07:25 am, Arafangion wrote:
> man xhost, and set the DISPLAY variable. I assume that this is a local
> apache.
>
> On Thursday 15 December 2005 16:49, elentirmo@gmail.com wrote:
> > Hi
> > I'm setting up an automated movie player system on my Ubuntu box and
> > what I want to be able to do is run an application (totem) when a I
> > click a link to a movie on my page. This will be run from the server,
> > logged in as my default account (it'll be a home theatre system)
> > The php command I'm calling is
> > $command=@system("/usr/bin/totem --fullscreen /mnt/hdd1/MOVIE");
> > Now because www-data is actually calling this command I get the error
> > (totem:9414): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
> > in the apache logs.
> > I've tried adding www-data to sudoers, to the root group etc but no
> > dice. I believe it's soemthing to do with the DISPLAY environment
> > variable but I'm not sure how to change this or what to change it to to
> > enable this to work.
> > Others have suggested freevo or writing the app as perl+GTK but I want
> > to do it from PHP/Perl if at all possible
> > many thanks in advance for any help
> >
> > cheers
> >
> > Lucas
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