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  1. 06-04-2011 01:33 PM #1
    HussamT
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    cron job

    I want to run a cron job for my drupal installation.
    so I schedule

    0 0 * * * /usr/bin/php -f /home/username/public_html/cron.php
    or
    0 0 * * * /usr/bin/php -f http://mydomain.co.cc/cron.php ?

    Thank you
  2. 06-05-2011 02:18 AM #2
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    Re: cron job

    Neither will work. is cron enabled on free accounts?
  3. 06-08-2011 05:12 AM #3
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    Re: cron job

    /usr/bin/php "/home/hussam/public_html/cron.php?cron_key=abcdef" >>/home/hussam/public_html/cronlog.txt 2>&1

    replace abcdef with the cron_key

    I get
    Status: 404 Not Found
    X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.17
    Content-type: text/html

    No input file specified.

    in the log
    the cron.php permissions are 755

    Any idea please?
    this is a drupal installation
    Last edited by HussamT; 06-08-2011 at 05:13 AM.
  4. 06-09-2011 12:20 AM #4
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    Re: cron job

    you can't pass query strings in cron jobs like that (the ?cron_key=abcdef part), just hardcode it in the script.

    /usr/bin/php /home/hussam/public_html/cron.php >> /home/hussam/cron.log 2>&1
    would be an appropriate line (script errors will get sent to a cron.log file in your home directory)
    Last edited by Skizzerz; 06-09-2011 at 12:21 AM.
  5. 06-09-2011 12:20 PM #5
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    Re: cron job

    /usr/bin/php /home/hussam/public_html/cron.php >> /home/hussam/cronlog.txt logs the following:

    Status: 503 Service Unavailable
    X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.17
    Content-type: text/html

    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
    <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en" dir="ltr">
    <head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
    <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/misc/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
    <title>Site off-line | Drupal</title>
    <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" media="all" href="/modules/system/defaults.css?0" />
    <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" media="all" href="/modules/system/system.css?0" />
    <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" media="all" href="/modules/system/system-menus.css?0" />
    <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" media="all" href="/modules/system/maintenance.css?0" />
    <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" media="all" href="/themes/garland/style.css?0" />
    <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" media="all" href="/themes/garland/minnelli/minnelli.css?0" />
    <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" media="print" href="/themes/garland/print.css?0" />
    <!--[if lt IE 7]>
    <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" media="all" href="/themes/garland/fix-ie.css" /> <![endif]-->
    </head>
    <body>

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    <div id="header-region" class="clear-block"></div>

    <div id="wrapper">
    <div id="container" class="clear-block">

    <div id="header">
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    <h1><a href="/" title="Drupal"><img src="/themes/garland/minnelli/logo.png" alt="Drupal" id="logo" /><span>Drupal</span></a></h1> </div>

    </div> <!-- /header -->


    <div id="center"><div id="squeeze"><div class="right-corner"><div class="left-corner">
    <h2>Site off-line</h2> <div class="clear-block">
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    </body>
    </html>
    so drupal's cron job isn't really running.
    Last edited by HussamT; 06-09-2011 at 12:21 PM.
  6. 06-09-2011 12:31 PM #6
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    Re: cron job

    Try using wget instead:

    Code:
    wget -O -  http://YOURSITE/cron.php?cron_key=abcd >>/home/USERNAME/public_html/cron_log.txt 2>&1
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  7. 06-10-2011 01:29 AM #7
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    Re: cron job

    That worked. Thank you so much
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