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I have installed Phabricator using the official Bitnami image on Google Compute Engine. It's working great, but when I try to use export to excel button in Maniphest, it shows the following error -

Excel Export Not Configured This system does not have PHPExcel installed. This software component is required to export tasks to Excel. Have your system administrator install it from:

https://github.com/PHPOffice/PHPExcel

Your PHP "include_path" needs to be updated to include the PHPExcel Classes directory.

So I git cloned the PHPExcel library to ~/apps/PHPExcel directory. The php.ini file was at /opt/bitnami/php/etc/php.ini. I opened it and added the following path in the include_path section -

include_path=".:/opt/bitnami/php/lib/php:~/apps/PHPExcel/Classes:~/apps/PHPExcel" ;include_path = ".;c:\php\includes" ; PHP's default setting for include_path is ".;/path/to/php/pear" ; Enables or disables file search in include_path optimization

And as per the instructions from Bitnami, I restarted the server using following commands - 

sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh restart apache
sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh restart php-fpm

But it's still giving the same error and telling me that PHPExcel is still not installed.

Am I missing something here? If yes, can you please provide the exact way to use the Export to Excel feature?

noob
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    Hi, Bitnami Engineer here. Please note that ~/ means the home folder of the user who runs the commands, as Apache and PHP-FPM runs as 'daemon', it doesn't mean /home/bitnami so I suggest you clone the repository in a folder inside /opt/bitnami/apps/phabricator or a similar path, set the proper permissions for daemon to read/write it and modify the include_path settings accordingly. Regards, Jota – Jota Martos Dec 26 '17 at 16:26
  • @JotaMartos Thanks a lot for your response. I moved the PHPExcel to phabricator folder and changed the php.ini and it started to work. Can you add it as an answer, so that I can accept it? – noob Dec 27 '17 at 13:41

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Bitnami Engineer here.

Please note that ~/ means the home folder of the user who runs the commands, as Apache and PHP-FPM runs as 'daemon', it doesn't mean /home/bitnami so I suggest you clone the repository in a folder inside /opt/bitnami/apps/phabricator or a similar path, set the proper permissions for daemon to read/write it and modify the include_path settings accordingly.

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