No module named pyvirtualdisplay

Question

I have this import in python code

import time
import sys
from pyvirtualdisplay import Display
from selenium import webdriver

when I run it from centos consol it runs correctly without any error.

Then I created a php file to run the python script with exec php function, and when I run it from centos consol, it runs correctly too, but when I run it from the browser it gives me this error

from pyvirtualdisplay import Display ImportError: No module named pyvirtualdisplay

I tried to give apache the right of executing the python file, but still the same problem.

Any idea about how to fix it?

Answer 1

To be accessible from web server your modules must be installed either:

• globally with sudo pip install pyvirtualdisplay;
• or locally with pip --user install pyvirtualdisplay under apache user;
• or in a virtual environment with pip install pyvirtualdisplay; the script then must be executed with python from that virtual environment; use #!/path/to/venv/bin/python as shebang for your scripts.