Configuring PhantomJS for codeBeamer

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Configuring PhantomJS for codeBeamer

Some codeBeamer features (such as chart export) require the PhantomJS package to be installed on the codeBeamer server. PhantomJS is a headless WebKit browser that is scriptable with a JavaScript API, and is used for exporting javascript charts to Word.

We require at least 2.1.1 version of PhantomJS installed on your servers.

Windows

On Windows, PhantomJS is shipped with the default codeBeamer (7.8.1 or higher) distribution.

Linux

On Linux (and other Unix flavours), PhantomJS must be installed separately. It is strongly recommended to install it from your distribution using a package manager if possible.

Manual installation on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and other Linuxes

Install PhantomJS from your distribution with the following command. This is required to make sure all dependencies are installed.

$ sudo apt-get install phantomjs

o to the /usr/local/share directory

cd /usr/local/share

Next download the PhantomJS binary distribution from here: http://phantomjs.org/download.html. Be sure to download the 64bit version if your linux is 64 bit:

sudo wget https://bitbucket.org/ariya/phantomjs/downloads/phantomjs-2.1.1-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2

Then extract this to /usr/local/share:

sudo tar xvfj phantomjs-2.1.1-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2

Next create few symlinks to get this binary accessible everywhere:

sudo ln -s /usr/local/share/phantomjs-2.1.1-linux-x86_64 /usr/local/share/phantomjs
sudo ln -s /usr/local/share/phantomjs/bin/phantomjs /usr/local/share/phantomjs
sudo ln -s /usr/local/share/phantomjs/bin/phantomjs /usr/local/bin/phantomjs
sudo ln -s /usr/local/share/phantomjs/bin/phantomjs /usr/bin/phantomjs

Now install this dependency:

sudo apt-get install fontconfig

Now you're done. Verify the installation:

phantomjs --version

Should print out version like:

2.1.1