Cron Job Question

Discussion in 'Site & Server Administration' started by Nilgesz, Nov 22, 2007.

  1. #1
    I want to run a link with cron job but I get error messages every time. first I just inserted the link "www.blabla.com/blabla.php" Now i've added word curl before link donno why I read somewhere but still not working.

    P.s I'm using hostgator
     
    Nilgesz, Nov 22, 2007 IP
  2. hostingonweb

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    #2
    This would help. In cPanel cron you will have to set in this way:

    /path/of/php path/to/your/script

    /usr/local/bin/php /home/username/public_html/yourfile.php
     
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  3. Nilgesz

    Nilgesz Well-Known Member

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    /usr/local/bin/php/home/"username"/public_html/"domaindir"/"runninglink.php" so this will be my patch?
     
    Nilgesz, Nov 22, 2007 IP
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    Dvae Banned

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    never heard of cron, thanks for sharing, ill search for it. :p
     
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    #5
    There is a space in between php and /home

    /usr/local/bin/php (space) /home/username/public_html/yourfile.php
     
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    joebert Well-Known Member

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    If you run into issues with file permissions, try somthing along these lines.
    wget "http://www.site.com/filename.php" > /dev/null
    Code (markup):
     
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    I'll try this because others don't work for me! Thanks
     
    Nilgesz, Nov 24, 2007 IP
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    /bin/sh: /usr/bin/wget: Permission denied
     
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