Executing Tex Live by SSH command

Question

I installed Tex Live by apt-get on Ubuntu, and I could access to latex commands both in Terminal and in web scripts; e.g. in PHP by shell_exec('pdflatex -version');

On a similar machine, I installed from source. I put PATH both in my user and /etc/profile. I could access to latex with all users (including my web user) in Terminal; but in web scripts I get error pdflatex: not found.

How apt-get make latex commands globally available on the machine, and what should I do so with installation from source?

Answer 1

You may try creating symlinks in standard locations with tlmgr path add: this will create symlinks for the executables in /usr/local/bin which is hopefully in the path of every user. You can adjust the location of the symlinks with tlmgr option sys_bin <value> before creating the symlinks.

If this doesn't work, there's nothing more you can try on the TeX Live side of things, so you'd better ask on serverfault or something how to set the path for your web server.