Installing PhantomJS for AWS
We recommend using PhantomJS as the engine to execute JavaScript when generating graphical reports that are run in the background or scheduled, as well as exporting dashboards. PhantomJS is a headless WebKit with JavaScript API. If you want to install PhantomJS, you will need to download a Linux binary distribution of PhantomJS and install it on your JasperReports Server instance.
The JasperReports Server Administrator Guide provides information on how to configure PhantomJS. For AWS, there are two key differences:
| • | You must download and install a Linux build of PhantomJS. |
| • | You must edit the ../WEB-INF/js.config.properties configuration file to point to the /usr/bin/phantomjs directory. |
To installing PhantomJS on your instance:
| 1. | SSH into your instance using your AWS private key and the user name ec2-user. |
| 2. | Install PhantomJS using the following commands: |
sudo yum install fontconfig freetype freetype-devel fontconfig-devel libstdc++
wget https://bitbucket.org/ariya/phantomjs/downloads/phantomjs-1.9.8-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
sudo mkdir -p /opt/phantomjs
bzip2 -d phantomjs-1.9.8-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2sudo tar -xvf phantomjs-1.9.8-linux-x86_64.tar --directory /opt/phantomjs/ --strip-components 1
sudo ln -s /opt/phantomjs/bin/phantomjs /usr/bin/phantomjs
| 3. | Edit the ../WEB-INF/js.config.properties configuration file. |
| 4. | Set the phantomjs.binary property to /usr/bin/phantomjs. |
| 5. | Follow the rest of the configuration instructions for PhantomJS in the JasperReports Server Administrator Guide. |
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