wkhtmltopdf: cannot connect to X server

Solution 1:

or try this (from http://drupal.org/node/870058)

Download wkhtmltopdf. Or better install it with a package manager:
```
sudo apt-get install wkhtmltopdf
```
Extract it and move it to /usr/local/bin/
Rename it to wkhtmltopdf so that now you have an executable at /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf
Set permissions: sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf

Install required support packages.

sudo apt-get install openssl build-essential xorg libssl-dev

Check to see if it works: run
```
/usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf http://www.google.com test.pdf
```
If it works, then you are done. If you get the error "Cannot connect to X server" then continue to number 7.
We need to run it headless on a 'virtual' x server. We will do this with a package called xvfb.
```
sudo apt-get install xvfb
```
We need to write a little shell script to wrap wkhtmltopdf in xvfb. Make a file called wkhtmltopdf.sh and add the following:
```
xvfb-run -a -s "-screen 0 640x480x16" wkhtmltopdf "$@"
```
Move this shell script to /usr/local/bin, and set permissions:
```
sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf.sh
```

Check to see if it works once again: run

/usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf.sh http://www.google.com test.pdf

Note that http://www.google.com may throw an error like "A finished ResourceObject received a loading finished signal. This might be an indication of an iframe taking to long to load." You may want to test with a simpler page like http://www.example.com.

Solution 2:

This solved the issue for me:

sudo apt-get install xvfb
xvfb-run --server-args="-screen 0, 1024x768x24" wkhtmltopdf file1.html file2.pdf

Solution 3:

I tried to do sudo apt-get install wkhtmltopdf but without any success. Instead I recommend you try:

Download the latest executable (.11 rc1) :

wget https://wkhtmltopdf.googlecode.com/files/wkhtmltopdf-0.11.0_rc1-static-i386.tar.bz2
uncompress it :

tar -vxf wkhtmltopdf-0.11.0_rc1-static-i386.tar.bz2
rename it :

mv wkhtmltopdf-i386 wkhtmltopdf
chmod it to executable :

chmod a+x wkhtmltopdf
place it into /usr/bin :

sudo mv wkhtmltopdf /usr/bin

Solution 4:

Just made it:

1- To download wkhtmltopdf dependencies

# apt-get install wkhtmltopdf

2- Download from source

# wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/wkhtmltopdf/xxx.deb

# dpkg -i xxx.deb

3- Try

# wkhtmltopdf http://google.com google.pdf

Its working fine

It works!

Solution 5:

I found method to resolve this problem without fake X server. In newest version of wkhtmltopdf dont need X server for work, but it no into official linux repositories.

Solution for Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS (trusty) i386

$ sudo apt-get install xfonts-75dpi
$ wget http://download.gna.org/wkhtmltopdf/0.12/0.12.2/wkhtmltox-0.12.2_linux-trusty-i386.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i wkhtmltox-0.12.2_linux-trusty-i386.deb
$ wkhtmltopdf http://www.google.com test.pdf

Solution for Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS (trusty) amd64

$ sudo apt-get install xfonts-75dpi
$ wget http://download.gna.org/wkhtmltopdf/0.12/0.12.2/wkhtmltox-0.12.2_linux-trusty-amd64.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i wkhtmltox-0.12.2_linux-trusty-amd64.deb
$ wkhtmltopdf http://www.google.com test.pdf

User felixhummel got very good solution, but repository with utilite has changed.