(Self-hosting) - Appears to be trying to use local PhantomJS not Phantomjscloud

Self-Hosted | v4/Legacy
1

(Self-hosting) - Appears to be trying to use local PhantomJS instead of Phantomjscloud - in the env file:

I have “Attach PDF” switched on in email settings as well as “Password Protect Invoices”

.env has:

PHANTOMJS_CLOUD_KEY=‘a-demo-key-with-low-quota-per-ip-address’
PHANTOMJS_SECRET=4k5beutdu95usqf3bt8i3rzfhl7wdb9d

But I get:

[2020-01-05 23:16:56] production.ERROR: PhantomJS - Invalid response http://www.ioensis.com/invoices/public/view/t3jsudwti2wsgjuq2q3kfqzogt0oimej?phantomjs=true&phantomjs_secret=4k5beutdu95usqf3bt8i3rzfhl7wdb9d: 403 Forbidden 403 Forbidden Access to this resource on the server is denied! {“context”:“PHP”,“user_id”:1,“account_id”:“1”,“user_name”:“System Administrator”,“method”:“PUT”,“user_agent”:“Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/13.0.4 Safari/605.1.15”,“locale”:“en”,“ip”:“88.12.170.245”,“count”:1,“is_console”:“no”,“is_api”:“no”,“db_server”:“mysql”,“url”:“invoices/3”} []

This looks to me like its trying to access a local server resource and not finding it. I see nothing that says it is contactig phantomjscloud.

I am very new to invoice ninja and not at all expert in web hosting / php etc. Any help would be much appreciated.

2

It should tell you on Settings > Email Settings which version is being used

3

See this screenshot:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/duca1a05ukxpqyk/Screenshot%202020-01-06%20at%2010.05.58.png?dl=0

I don’t see how it indicates whether it is local or cloud? Also, when I do Test, I get a blank page and the same error in the log.

4

Thanks, the app is configured to use PhantomJS cloud.

The info here may help: https://invoice-ninja.readthedocs.io/en/latest/configure.html#troubleshooting

5

I’ve looked at the troubleshooting tips and nothing helps. Unfortunately, most of them I can’t try because I am on a shared hosting and I don’t have command line access.

I don’t really understand where the 403 error is coming from. As I understand it, the url is sent to phantomjscloud and so phantomjs accesses the invoice in a similar way to the client portal. Is the 403 error coming from that access attempt or is it coming from the application trying to access phantomjscloud?

6

I believe the 403 is from PhantomJS Cloud failing to load the Invoice Ninja invoice URL

7

Hi, I have a similar issue. I geoblock my install and therefor I get a 403. If I remove the geoblock, all is fine. On the v4 install I don’t get a 403 error. What is the difference in v5?

And does that mean my invoice data is sent to phantomjs cloud?

8

So, as the chromium approach seems to be the new one, I have set phantomjs to false and used

EXPERIMENTAL_PDF_ENGINE=true
EXPERIMENTAL_PDF_ENGINE_CHROMIUM_PATH=/usr/bin/chromium

(of course after installing chromium)

Is this how it should be set up?

EDIT: Could this also be used with v4?