CUNY Academic Commons

Hi Moeinedin - This problem can indeed sometimes be caused by fileserver permissions. But in this case, it's not. A few months ago, based on some errors I was seeing in the logs, I implemented some changes in wp-post-to-pdf that ensured a writeable cache directory, by defining a proper value for K_PATH_CACHE etc:

diff --git a/wp-content/plugins/wp-post-to-pdf/tcpdf/config/tcpdf_config.php b/wp-con
tent/plugins/wp-post-to-pdf/tcpdf/config/tcpdf_config.php
index c295ed7c99..93cec75b26 100644
--- a/wp-content/plugins/wp-post-to-pdf/tcpdf/config/tcpdf_config.php
+++ b/wp-content/plugins/wp-post-to-pdf/tcpdf/config/tcpdf_config.php
@@ -90,15 +90,21 @@ if (!defined('K_TCPDF_EXTERNAL_CONFIG')) {
      */
     define ('K_PATH_FONTS', K_PATH_MAIN.'fonts/');

+        $upload_dir = wp_upload_dir();
+        $cache_dir = $upload_dir['basedir'] . '/tcpdf-cache';
+        if ( ! file_exists( $cache_dir ) ) {
+                wp_mkdir_p( $cache_dir );
+        }
+
     /**
      * cache directory for temporary files (full path)
      */
-    define ('K_PATH_CACHE', K_PATH_MAIN.'cache/');
+    define( 'K_PATH_CACHE', $cache_dir );

     /**
      * cache directory for temporary files (url path)
      */
-    define ('K_PATH_URL_CACHE', K_PATH_URL.'cache/');
+    define( 'K_PATH_URL_CACHE', $upload_dir['baseurl'] );

     /**
      *images directory

In this case, the problem was that the image TCPDF was trying to pull in is located at http:// ... which the Commons redirects to the https:// equivalent. The version of TCPDF that ships with (the abandoned) wp-post-to-pdf doesn't follow redirects, and the library wasn't smart enough to fail gracefully. I've put in place a hotfix that forces cURL to follow redirects when fetching images https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/90a0c72b043129835834ba9d405e49354bd8c26b:

diff --git a/wp-content/plugins/wp-post-to-pdf/tcpdf/tcpdf.php b/wp-content/plugins/w
p-post-to-pdf/tcpdf/tcpdf.php
index 71f2963db4..4c9a92fe13 100644
--- a/wp-content/plugins/wp-post-to-pdf/tcpdf/tcpdf.php
+++ b/wp-content/plugins/wp-post-to-pdf/tcpdf/tcpdf.php
@@ -7899,6 +7899,7 @@ class TCPDF {
                     curl_setopt($cs, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
                     curl_setopt($cs, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, false);
                     curl_setopt($cs, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'TCPDF');
+                    curl_setopt($cs, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
                     $imgdata = curl_exec($cs);
                     curl_close($cs);
                     if ($imgdata !== FALSE) {