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Cannot execute puppeteer from php

When I try to run a Puppeteer command from PHP using the exec function, I get this error:

Error: EACCES: permission denied, stat '/root/.config/puppeteer'

Do you know how to resolve this problem?

I tried to set the owner and the group of the folder /root/.config/puppeteer to www-data and set the chmod to 777 but this didn’t work.

I also tried this:

process.env.PUPPETEER_DOWNLOAD_PATH = '/var/www/.chromium-browser-snapshots';
process.env.PUPPETEER_CONFIG = '/var/www/.puppeteer';
process.env.PUPPETEER_CACHE_DIR = '/var/www/.puppeteer';
process.env.PUPPETEER_USER_DATA_DIR = '/var/www/.puppeteer';
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  1. Chosen as BEST ANSWER
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    It finally worked by installing puppeteer@21 instead of the last version.


  2. 0

    Maybe it’s because puppeteer cannot find the executable for chrome, when it is executed from PHP.

    Add to your server code: (change executablePath where the chrome executable is at)

    const browser = await puppeteer.launch({
  headless: 'new',

  // must so it works from php's `shell_exec`
  executablePath: 'C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe',

});
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