Running Phantomjs on Heroku

How to run Node controlled Phantomjs/Casperjs script in Heroku

The issue actually had nothing to do with Heroku. As noted in this SO answer, using exec and providing any environmental variables in the options parameter replaces the entire set of environment variables. This includes the path, effectively overwriting any paths already specified to Heroku in the buildpack and npm modules.

You can create a copy of process.env and pass that along in the parameters in addition to other environmental parameters needed to be passed.

Run a phantom.js file on Heroku regularly

Found it: I only had to write

phantomjs phantom.js

in order to get it working. It was the "run" that made the expression invalid

Is there a working nodejs/phantomjs Heroku buildpack?

Heroku Toolbelt now has first class support for multiple buildpacks, so you can get a working Node and PhantomJS setup with the following:

heroku buildpacks:set https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-nodejs.git

heroku buildpacks:add --index 1 https://github.com/stomita/heroku-buildpack-phantomjs.git

Deploy phantomJS to node.js app?

Copy the lib folder of phantomjs to the root directory of your node app
You could also try putting a sym link in bin or sbin
The key is that is has to run from terminal using the same account that node runs on.
Also, node-phantom is a good npm library to utilize phantomjs, once you get it working.

Page-break-inside support in phantomjs on heroku

I've downloaded it to my machine(Debian 7.6.0) and compiled PhantomJS using this guide.
So I executed:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential chrpath git-core libssl-dev libfontconfig1-dev libxft-dev
git clone git://github.com/ariya/phantomjs.git
cd phantomjs
git checkout 1.9
./build.sh

And then I took the binary from /bin folder and added it to custom buildpack. I added this buildpack to heroku, but it crashed with the following error:

/phantomjs: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.15' not found (required by ./phantomjs)

So I did on my machine

ldd bin/phantomjs

and I took all dependencies:

    root@deepsypotato:/home/viktor# ldd phantomjs.1
    linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007fffe9f74000)
    libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreetype.so.6 (0x00007fd914fcd000)
    libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfontconfig.so.1 (0x00007fd914d96000)
    libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fd914b91000)
    librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007fd914989000)
    libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007fd91476d000)
    libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007fd914465000)
    libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007fd9141e3000)
    libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007fd913fcd000)
    libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007fd913c41000)
    /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fd915283000)
    libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007fd913a2a000)
    libexpat.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libexpat.so.1 (0x00007fd913800000)

then I copied libstdc++.so.6 from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 and added it to my custom buildpack and now its working flawlessly :).

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