Chromium on FreeBSD / creating PDF from Django template

[Klewiu]

Hello guys,

I am using django-hardcopy to create PDF from django template.

Aplication was on heroku and i had to specifiy PATH_TO_CHROME. Everything was working on heroku with:
PATH_TO_CHROME='/app/.apt/opt/google/chrome/chrome --headless --print-to-pdf --disable-gpu --no-sandbox'

I had to transfer app on freeBSD on mydevi.net and the problem started.
From support i recieved info how to download chromium (pkg install or other commands requiring root privileges are not allowed):

wget https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:13:amd64/release_1/All/chromium-100.0.4896.60_1.pkg tar -zxf chromium-100.0.4896.60_1.pkg export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~/usr/lib/ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~/usr/local/lib/ wget https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:13:amd64/release_1/All/openh264-2.2.0,2.pkg tar -zxf openh264-2.2.0,2.pkg cd ~/usr/local/bin/ ./chromedriver --help

I did that above, and now i have in ~/usr/local/bin/ two file chrome and chromedriver.
I am trying to pass in django settings

CHROME_PATH='~/usr/local/bin/' or '~/usr/local/lib/chrome'

but it doesn't work...

The application behaves as if this chromium environment is not starting, as it could not find chrome.exe
On development on localserver i points to the path to chorme in program files and everything works

I will add that I am a beginner when it comes to programming, so please be understanding...

 

[Klewiu]

Ok i made a progress:

[Klewiu@s26]:<~/usr/local/bin>$ ./chromedriver
Starting ChromeDriver 100.0.4896.60 (6a5d10861ce8de5fce22564658033b43cb7de047-refs/branch-heads/4896@{#875}) on port 9515
Only local connections are allowed.
Please see https://chromedriver.chromium.org/security-considerations for suggestions on keeping ChromeDriver safe.
[1662360055.820][SEVERE]: bind() failed: Operation not permitted (1)
[1662360055.820][SEVERE]: bind() failed: Operation not permitted (1)
Unable to start server with either IPv4 or IPv6. Exiting...

but still it doesn't work...

 

[VladiBG]

I'm using htmldoc for converting static html to pdf you may want to check it.
www.msweet.org/htmldoc/htmldoc.html

FreshPorts -- textproc/htmldoc: Converts HTML to PDF and/or PostScript

This is a port of HTMLDOC, which can: Convert HTML files to PDF or PostScript Generate a table-of-contents for books Generate indexed HTML files Generate files on-the-fly for web applications, from the command-line for batch jobs, or from a GUI for interactive work...

www.freshports.org