Can I install on my own server?

Is there a way to install the latex code, so that all of the images generated can be rendered and saved on my server?

Thanks,

Nathan

Yep. You'll need the to install the complete software. v2.5 is available for free; the latest version requires a donation.

See the http://www.codecogs.com/components/equationeditor/equation_install.php#costs

Will.

After donating, how do I download the new version?

Thanks!

We'll email the code directly to you with instructions, so make sure you include your email address when making a donation.

You also need to explain what you'll be doing with the code. Personal, commercial, web site address etc.

And agree to our terms of use. This is still in preparation, but it'll look something like this: http://www.codecogs.com/pages/licences/com.php

The final documentation should be ready in a week to 10 days, so you may prefer to wait. However the license will be nothing out of the ordinary: It will license you to use the system on one website for delivery of equation for your website only.

So all of the equations are rendered on your servers? This is what it looks like after looking at the code.

You can use any equation rendering service you like. So long as it adhere to the same protocol.

The original backend code is LaTeXRender from http://www.mayer.dial.pipex.com/tex.htm

On the whole setting all this up is hardly worth hassle for small website like yours. If your a corporation and need the extra power or your installing this on your own internal intranet then thats a different subject. Given the time it'll take us to support this and write the documentation we ask for a much larger donation. However you aren't either of these, so I would focus on the content to the rest of your site first!

Hi, I have one problem for diplaying equations on HTML page.

As I followed your example, you add the following script into HTML.

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://latex.codecogs.com/latex.js"></script>

However, when I look into the "latex.js" sourse code, I find that it still depends on the website "http://latex.codecogs.com/". This means that the equations cannot display correctly if I am offline. Is there a plugin by which equations may be rendered correctly and independently on my own "client" computer similar to "MathPlayer"? It is worth noticing that I want to render latex locally , just on the "client" ,not on the "server" .

Thank you!

Hi,

This service only works online unfortunately. This is because we have to run a LaTeX equation rendering service, which is fairly complex to setup and install.

Some of our users are happy to be online when writing new equations, but what to publish pages for intranets and offline resources, so they copy the generated images into a local folder. This copying you would have to do yourself, perhaps automated using php etc, however we can't do this in javascript due to security restrictions.

Hope this helps Will.

Hi, I'm trying out the LaTeX editor on my phpBB site, and so far it's working fine and I was thinking about running it off my own server. However, since the backend is based on the latexrender package, it requires the exec() feature to work. I'm running a phpBB site on a free hosting server, and exec() is disabled by default. Is there any way to run the editor without needing exec()? Plus, where can I download the v2.5 editor to test?

Hi. Our backend doesn't use latexrender. Although this provided some initial inspiration, our code is very different and a great deal faster. Latexrender is suitable for small scale deployment, our method written in C++ andcompiled for the local machine, which therefore requires root access. Its around 1000x faster and after many years of testing its proving to be 100% stable.

Given you are on a free server, you won't be able to install our backend software. However, there is very little justification for you to make a local installation. What most people do is use the CodeCogs server, but to reduce dependency on us they cache the generated images locally. You can implement this in PHP.

Regarding v2.5 of the Editor. This is no longer available. The latest editor is only available when you purchase a licence. If you are a free, open-source site, and can prove is then we don't charge, except for a small admin fee - really there to help you install and get going. For any other purposes the costs are greater, so see http://www.codecogs.com/latex/purchase.php for details.

Hope this helps.